Kathleen Fischer

The parent of three lively adults, Kathleen M. Fischer is also a registered nurse with a master’s degree in education. Her area of expertise is adolescent social, emotional, sexual and relational development. In a career spanning decades she has:

• worked in public health settings;
• taught in public school and at the university level;
• coached parents, teens and young adults; and
• presented at professional educational seminars.

She combines her passion for adolescent development with observation and research on families and kids, and has written two books, Bringing Our Boys Through the Second Decade and Simple But NOT Easy: Regaining Balance in Our Family Life.

Dr. Brad Schwall

Dr. Schwall has been providing counseling, training for educators, social and emotional instructional programming for children, and parent education in the Park Cities and North Dallas for over 25 years. He has served at The Center, Park Cities Baptist Church, and at McCulloch Intermediate School and Highland Park Middle School in the Highland Park Independent School District. Dr. Schwall offers tips on parenting, family life, and mental health in regular articles and frequent interviews on WFAA-TV, Channel 8.

After completing his undergraduate degree in education from Baylor University, he completed his masters degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the Clinical Residency in Pastoral Psychotherapy at The Center, and his doctorate in Pastoral Psychotherapy from Garrett Theological Seminary on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. Matthew Housson

Dr. Matthew Housson is a licensed psychologist who received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1996. He worked for seven years at the University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center, Department of Psychology, where he completed developmental assessments of preschoolers and Psychoeducational Evaluations of school-aged children. He has more than 20 years’ experience diagnosing autism, attention disorders, learning disabilities, and emotional/behavioral disorders. In addition to evaluation, Dr. Housson works with families to identify appropriate educational environments for their children and also provides individual and family therapy to address behavioral and emotional concerns.

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