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Lunch and Learn: Beyond Behavior Charts and Therapy: What Really Helps Kids with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges?

June 23, 2026 12:00 pm EDT/EST

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What’s the best way to help your child who is struggling with anxiety, depression, or challenging behavior?

In this Peace At Home Lunch & Learn Conversation, founder Ruth E. Freeman, LCSW, interviews Marianne Barton, PhD and Aaron Weintraub, MS to explore how Gordon Neufeld’s attachment-based framework can serve as a foundation for understanding and supporting children—while also integrating tools from more traditional psychological approaches.

Drawing on insights from Hold On to Your Kids, Neufeld’s model emphasizes that secure parent-child attachment is the cornerstone of emotional health, resilience, and healthy development. Within this framework, a wide range of strategies—including cognitive behavioral approaches—can be thoughtfully incorporated to help children build coping skills, regulate emotions, and reduce symptoms.

In this engaging conversation, our experts will unpack:

  • How attachment-based parenting provides a foundation that can incorporate traditional child therapy tools
  • Why some children respond best when skill-building strategies are grounded in strong relationships
  • When approaches like CBT are helpful—and how they fit within an attachment-focused lens
  • How anxiety, depression, and behavioral challenges may be rooted in disconnection
  • What it means to support both the child and the parent-child relationship

Parents will leave with a clearer understanding of how to help your struggling child, when to seek therapy, and how to strengthen connection at home—without feeling like you have to choose between approaches.

Please ask questions and share your experiences during the session.  If you would like to request a specific topic to be covered, please email us ahead of time at solutions@peaceathomeparenting.com 

Click the button above to register for this virtual, Interactive workshop.

Meet your Instructors

Ruth Freeman

Mental Health, School Age, Relationships,

LCSW

Marianne Barton

Child and Adolescent Development, Mental Health, Autism,

P.h.D

Aaron Weintraub

Autism, Anxiety, ADHD,

MS, Curriculum Advisor

Topics

  • anxiety
  • attachment
  • communication
  • connection
  • emotions
  • mental health

Age Category

  • All, Mental Health
  • All, Parent Wellbeing
  • School Age
  • Teens & Young Adults