Wendy Mogel

Wendy Mogel
Occupation	Author, Clinical Psychologist, Public Speaker
Nationality	American
Website
www.wendymogel.com

Wendy Mogel (born March 23, 1951) is an American psychologist and author, whose first book, “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee,” identified the problems faced by middle class children at a time of social anxiety. Her second book, “The Blessing of a B Minus,” focused on counseling parents whose children face destructive pressures as they prepare for college.

Biography

Mogel studied art history at Middlebury College in Vermont, from which she graduated cum laude. She spent her summers as a counselor at a summer camp for children with emotional problems, where she met her future husband, the filmmaker and writer Michael Tolkin. After the wedding the couple moved to California.

Mogel received a master's degree from the New School in New York City and her Ph. D at the Wright Institute of Los Angeles and continued her studies at the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As a clinical psychologist, she has her own practice as a child and family therapist. She is an active author and public speaker on the topic of effective parenting. Mogel has two daughters and lives in Los Angeles.

She has appeared on The Today Show and is consulted frequently by the media as a parenting expert.

External links

• Official website