Is Therapy Making Your Child WORSE? The Truth Parents Need to Hear

Is Therapy Making Your Child WORSE? The Truth Parents Need to Hear

March 16, 2026 · 13 min · Season 3

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Efrat Amira discusses the potential negative impacts of therapy on children and encourages parents to consider alternatives.

👉 Join Becoming Leaders- Raising Leaders Program: https://www.efratamira.com/blrlprogram👉 Join The Parenting Wisdom Community FB group for weekly Parenting Q&A:https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17mDYDmSNa/Think Twice Before Sending Your Child to TherapyTherapy has become the default solution for almost every challenge children face today. But is it always the right answer?In this episode, parenting coach Efrat Amira explores an important and controversial question: could sending kids to therapy sometimes do more harm than good?Drawing on research and ideas discussed in the book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier, this episode examines the unintended consequences that can arise when therapy becomes the first response to childhood struggles.This conversation is not about rejecting professional help when it is truly needed. Instead, it is about helping parents pause, think critically, and remember that the most powerful support system a child has is often already at home.In This Episode:* Why therapy has become the default parenting solution* The silent message children may receive when they are sent to therapy* How children can begin to internalize…

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