Erica Komisar, LCSW, is the author of Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, which won a Family Choice Award for best parenting book, and Chicken Little the Sky Isn’t Falling: Raising Resilient Adolescents in the New Age of Anxiety. A psychoanalyst, clinical social worker, and parent guidance expert, she earned her MSW from Columbia University and started her private practice in New York City in 1990. A contributing editor for the Institute for Family Studies, she belongs to the International
Psychoanalytic Association and lives in Manhattan with her husband and three young-adult children.