I’m Andrea Ramsay Speers, and I am no longer a child.

But I remember what it felt like to be a child, and to feel there was no possible way my parents could understand the angst and drama of my life.

And as a parent myself, I now understand how easy it is for the message of love to not get through the volumes of life lessons and discipline that I feels responsible for sharing with my own children.

Using my Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology, I work with my clients to design their families so that the lessons and the discipline are shared and received, and the message of love and concern are also received…to and from both parents and kids.  I teach my clients how to communicate effectively with their families, without alienating them or pushing them away, empowering them as parents and allowing them to feel confident in handling even the stickiest of parenting challenges.

How Did I Get Into This Kind of Work? Why Am I So Passionate About Working With Parents?
On Sept. 11/01, I was on a bus tour of Europe with my husband; a number of New Yorkers were also on that trip. It was a shocking and terrifying thing to see the world change in front of you…while you’re on vacation, no less. When we got home, I happened to catch an Oprah show about how to talk with your kids about what had happened, because so many of the kids interviewed were so distressed and so upset, and their parents just didn’t know how to help them. I realized in that moment that what I wanted to do was to work with parents who wanted to do right by their kids, but sometimes just didn’t know what that was.

Where Else Might You Have Seen Me?