Meet Dr. Susan Bauerfeld

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with decades of experience, Level 3 IFS training, and a passion for helping parents worry less and connect more with themselves and their children. While retired from private practice, I continue to provide workshops and presentations to community groups and at conferences. My current focus is promoting my book, Base Camp Parenting: Worry Less to Help Your Kids More, co-authored with Chris Parrott, to be published by Bloomsbury in October 2026. With this book, I intend to bring the wisdom and skills I have taught to countless individuals to a wider audience. My goal is to help parents everywhere build the self-management skills they need to imbue their Base Camps with more compassion, curiosity, calmness, and connectedness, and less dismay, disregulation, disintegration, and distress.

I am confident that anyone can become a more resilient, capable, compassionate, and healthy human being. I am also confident that the odds of success in that endeavor are increased when you worry less.  Worrying interferes with our most precious resource--our connections with one another--and also makes it harder to address our concerns effectively. When we learn to worry less, therefore, it becomes easier to build and maintain healthy relationships and to cope with a wide range of issues, including anxiety disorders, trauma, learning challenges, technology management, and chronic health conditions. 

With parental stress on the rise, along with anxiety and other mental disorders in children, the need for a paradigm shift is clear. It is not enough to understand the value of calmness and connectedness. Parents need hope, courage, and skills to make the changes that will positively transform the environments (i.e., Base Camps) in which children are raised. Worrying less is a powerful, impactful way for parents to help their kids more and to build the foundation for a brighter future. Base Camp Parenting shows them how to do just that.