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If you treat clients who grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or self-involved parent, you know the lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment these clients experience. This comprehensive guide goes beyond mechanistic prescriptions to show you how to help clients not only recover but to also restart their own personal growth and self-actualization process. In Treating Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Lindsay C. Gibson draws on more than thirty years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and outlines a unique approach to treating a common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people seeking therapy. Gibson shares her perspectives on the goals of therapy, and what therapists need to know in order to provide the most effective interventions. Using these insights, you can help your clients heal from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, improve confidence, decrease reactivity to emotionally immature behavior, find healthy ways to stop self-sacrificing and meet their own emotional needs, and rediscover their true selves. By helping clients free themselves from the effects of emotionally immature people, you'll help them to create healthy, positive relationships that uplift them and improve their quality of life.

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Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice who specializes in individual psychotherapy with adult children of emotionally immature parents. She is author of Who You Were Meant to Be and writes a monthly column on well-being for Tidewater Women magazine. In the past she has served as an adjunct assistant professor of graduate psychology for the College of William and Mary, as well as for Old Dominion University. Dr. Gibson lives and practices in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Born with music in her veins, Ann Sprinkle was classically trained in voice and received her master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a professional opera singer, actor, and voice teacher, she worked many odd jobs and found herself in the academic world of medical education. She later became a speech language pathologist with a specialty in gender affirming voice and combined her love of music, voice, and education to help others. As a lifelong learner, she discovered audiobooks through her curious nature and love of science and true stories. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA with over fifty books recorded thus far, her favorite genres are nonfiction (self-improvement, growth, and development) comedies and mystery/thrillers, because the ""truth is stranger than fiction!"" In addition to audiobook narration, Ann is also the owner and founder of Viable Voice & Speech, LLC, where she provides voice and speech therapy services, including gender affirming voice training, professional speaking and coaching services, accent modification/English pronunciation services, and more. Additional information is available at viablevoice.com. When she's not working, she enjoys exploring trails with her scrappy hiking buddy (a rescue dog named Bear), yoga, learning about neuroscience and the mysteries of the world, and venturing to new places. Born with music in her veins, Ann Sprinkle was classically trained in voice and received her master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a professional opera singer, actor, and voice teacher, she worked many odd jobs and found herself in the academic world of medical education. She later became a speech language pathologist with a specialty in gender affirming voice and combined her love of music, voice, and education to help others. As a lifelong learner, she discovered audiobooks through her curious nature and love of science and true stories. A proud member of SAG-AFTRA with over fifty books recorded thus far, her favorite genres are nonfiction (self-improvement, growth, and development) comedies and mystery/thrillers, because the ""truth is stranger than fiction!"" In addition to audiobook narration, Ann is also the owner and founder of Viable Voice & Speech, LLC, where she provides voice and speech therapy services, including gender affirming voice training, professional speaking and coaching services, accent modification/English pronunciation services, and more. Additional information is available at viablevoice.com. When she's not working, she enjoys exploring trails with her scrappy hiking buddy (a rescue dog named Bear), yoga, learning about neuroscience and the mysteries of the world, and venturing to new places.

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