From Anxiety to Resilience: Tools and Support from the Stanford Parenting Center

April 14, 2026

The Stanford Parenting Center ensures that parents are powerful partners in supporting their child’s mental health and well-being by providing resources for parents to expand their skills and develop behaviors that foster healthy parent-child relationships. Join Dr. Elizabeth Reichert and Dr. Mari Kurahashi as they describe tools to address anxiety and nurture everyday wellness for your child.

Presenters
Elizabeth Reichert, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford School of Medicine and serves as Co-section Chief of General Child Psychiatry. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Parenting Center at Stanford Children’s Health. Dr. Reichert specializes in treatments for anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and disruptive behaviors. Her work focuses on the role of parenting in the prevention and treatment of childhood mental health challenges and on helping families build resilience and stronger parent-child relationships.

Mari Kurahashi, MD is Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Co-section chief of General Child Psychiatry, and co-director of the Stanford Parenting Center at Stanford Children’s Health. Dr. Kurahashi attended New York Medical College followed by residency at Yale School of Medicine and a fellowship at New York University School of Medicine. She specializes in parenting support treatments (PCIT, PMT and SPACE) that improve the parent-child relationship and decrease the parent and child’s psychopathology.