Hal Pickett: Childhood anxiety disorders are treatable with common-sense therapies

Minn Post – Andy Steiner

“A child’s life is a bed of roses — or at least that’s how might seem to an adult burdened with the cares of the grownup world. But most children carry their own share of worries, some passing and developmentally appropriate, but others as heavy and overwhelming as any adult’s. Hal Pickett, Psy.D, LP, ABPP, director, client services at Headway Emotional Health Services, a Twin Cities-based mental health support program for families, has been treating children with anxiety disorder for more than two decades. In his clinical psychology practice, Pickett works closely with children and their parents to understand the difference between normal and clinical anxiety, and to provide tools for overcoming these sometimes-crippling obstacles.”(more)