Debra Burdick

Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as 'The Brain Lady', is an international expert on Mindfulness and ADHD as well as an award winning #1 best-selling author. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who recently retired from her private practice to slow down and focus on writing and teaching after providing outpatient psychotherapy and Mindfulness skills to her clients since 1990. She added Neurofeedback to her psychotherapy practice in 1999. She is an expert author on Self Growth. Debra specializes in mindfulness, ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, sleep, and healing. Besides her private practice, Debra worked at the Child Guidance Clinic, Family Services, Child and Family Agency, and Lawrence and Memorial Hospital. Her all-day workshops include: 100 Mindfulness Strategies to Integrate into Clinical Practice; Childhood ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills; Mindfulness Toolkit for Children and Teens. Debra has extensive experience helping children and adults thrive with ADHD. In addition to counseling hundreds of clients over the past twenty years, she parented a daughter who has ADHD, was married to a man with ADHD, and was business partners with someone with ADHD. She combines knowledge gained from her own personal healing journey, her parenting experience, her clients, and her professional study of ADHD and brain dysregulation into her holistic approach. Debra developed her own mindfulness practice to deal with a chronic illness (now thankfully healed). She found it so helpful in her own life that she started teaching her clients the skills she was using. She went on to develop clinical material on mindfulness skills that she perfected in her private practice and in an intensive outpatient program. She also created a card deck and a book titled Radical Self-Care When You Are Ill containing 52 skills and affirmations to help restore well-being. Her clients have shown her that mindfulness skills improve the rate and quality of treatment outcomes. Her books and CDs include: * Radical Self-Care When You Are Ill. 52 Skills and Affirmations to Help You Restore Your Well-being * Mindfulness Skills Card Deck and Games * Mindfulness for Teens with ADHD * Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD * Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets. This was an Amazon number-one best-seller for over a year. * Mindfulness Skills for Kids and Teens. Workbook for Clinicians and Clients with 154 Tools, Techniques, Activities and Worksheets Amazon best-seller * ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens. Best-seller. Benjamin Franklin Gold award winner in Psychology! * ADHD and Sleep * IS IT REALLY ADHD? ONLY ADHD? How to Get an Accurate Diagnosis for You or Your Child * ADHD Treatment Options. How to Choose the Right Treatment for You or Your Child * A Holistic Approach to Successful Children with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder - A Home Study System for Parents * Meditations for Concentration/mp3 * Mindfulness Toolkit CD/mp3 * Mindfulness Toolkit for Kids mp3 Debra continues to teach numerous presentations, workshops, and teleseminars. She is often interviewed on internet radio and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Day newspaper, Self-Improvement Magazine, Doctors of the USA and ADHD Support Talk radio and Parenting Powers television show.