Dr. John Duffy

Dr. Duffy is a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, podcaster, and nationally-recognized parenting and relationship expert. He has been working in his clinical practice with individuals, couples, teens, and families for nearly twenty-five years. Dr. Duffy’s refreshing and unique approach has provided the critical intervention and support needed to help thousands of individuals and families find their footing. Dr. Duffy is the author of the number one new release Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety (Mango, September 2019), as well as the number-one best-selling The Available Parent (Viva Editions, second edition released 2014). He has been the regular parenting and relationship expert on Steve Harvey (with more than 75 appearances), and appears several times a month on WGN radio. He also appears frequently on other national and local television and radio outlets, and is cited regularly in national print and online publications. These include the Today show, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, Fox Good Day Chicago, The Jam, WGN-TV, the Morning Blend, NPR, the Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Time, Good Housekeeping, Men’s Health, Chicago Parent, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Wired, Parenting, YourTeen, Parents, Family Circle, Chicago Sun Times, and Real Simple magazine, among many others. He is co-host of a popular podcast, better, with his wife Julie, as well as On Purpose with Chicago Tribune columnist Heidi Stevens. He is also a frequent guest on other parenting and self-help podcasts. He presents nationally on parenting and relationships.