Deborah MacNamara, PhD

Biography

Dr. Deborah MacNamara is a clinical counsellor and educator with more than twenty-five years experience working with children, youth, and adults. She is on faculty at the Neufeld Institute, operates a counselling practice, and speaks regularly about child and adolescent development to parents, childcare providers, educators, and mental health professionals. She continues to write, do radio and television interviews, and speak to the needs of children and youth based on developmental science. Deborah resides in Vancouver, Canada, with her husband and two children.

Where to find Deborah MacNamara, PhD online

Books

Nourished: Connection, Food, and Caring for Our Kids (And Everyone Else We Love)
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 94,760. Language: English. Published: September 19, 2023 . Categories: Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Parenting, Nonfiction » Relationships & Family » Education
In Nourished, Dr. Deborah MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it. Informed by attachment science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and research on human emotion, Nourished reframes our approach to providing for our kids and helps us hit the reset button on our relationship with food.
Rest, Play, Grow
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 92,670. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Developmental / general, Nonfiction » Parenting » Childhood development
Based on the work of one of the world’s foremost child development experts, Rest, Play, Grow offers a developmental road map to adults and is what every toddler, preschooler, and kindergartner wished their adults understood about them.