I am a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Psychology. I have been in the mental health profession for quite some time now. I’ve worked with children and adults suffering from severe mental and personality disorders. Some of the disorders I’ve worked with include patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar I & II, and autism, all with and without psychotic features. I have worked with children who suffer from complex daily traumas. These traumas may include the loss of a parent, parent incarcerated, living with grandparents, death of a friend, violent neighborhoods, witnessing violence, inadequate care, and education at school. The one thing that can link all of these populations together is trauma. At the base of all of the mechanisms of the patients I see is a trauma of some kind.
I got into this field because I have a genuine passion for humans. I want to see everyone in the world win and succeed at whatever they want to accomplish. My passion for children and adolescents is 3x more immense with all my love for people. After working so closely to help change the life of a kid like me I realized one way to change their life for the better is to affect their parent/caregiver. With that I have embarked on a journey to provide caregivers with the best, most up to date, peer reviewed information possible with the added perspective of how it will apply to their family.
I may have access to information through my connection to academia, that means nothing in the grand scheme. I may be an expert on the knowledge of nuances of the latest and greatest, but I am not an expert on anyone’s individual family or children. Although I can provide the best practices and why they work or how to work them. I will never tell anyone how to raise their family, I will never tell anyone what they are doing is wrong, I will never think I know best.
Eric G Taylor 