Dr. Edlynn serves as the Director of Pediatric Behavioral Medicine for Oak Park Behavioral Medicine. Although she specializes in pediatric health psychology, she has worked with all ages since joining OPBM in 2017. Dr. Edlynn earned a BA in English from Smith College, a PhD in clinical psychology from Loyola University Chicago, and completed postgraduate training at Stanford and Children’s Hospital Orange County.
Dr. Edlynn integrates evidence-based therapies including CBT and ACT and has been certified in hypnotherapy and gut-directed hypnotherapy. She describes her approach as highly customized to each individual client within their personal context and emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as a primary influence on the client’s progress.
Outside of the therapy office, Dr. Edlynn is an award-winning author of the book, Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent Confident Children, and an international speaker. She wrote a regular parenting advice column for Parents.com and serves on their medical review board. Emily co-hosts the popular Psychologists Off the Clock podcast and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Scary Mommy, Good Housekeeping, Motherly, Psychology Today, and more. She has been featured as an expert on NPR and NBC News Daily and regularly guests on podcasts to speak about parenting and raising healthy children in our modern world. She challenges today’s unhealthy and unscientific parenting trends in her speaking and writing, including for her Substack. Dr. Edlynn’s emotions journal for kids ages 8-12, In Your Feels, came out in 2024.
In her small pockets of free time, Dr. Edlynn enjoys long walks listening to podcasts, reading multiple books at a time from every genre, and spending time with her two rescue dogs and family, not necessarily in that order.
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