Michelle Kaye is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an Author
Current Work:
Better Than Good Enough: A Parenting Book for the Rest of Us
Michelle Kaye is a regular contributor to San Francisco Bay Area Moms where she writes about parenting, infant-mental health and the COVID19 pandemic.
Better Than Good Enough: A Parenting Book for the Rest of Us
You diligently attended every prenatal course. You bought a food processor so you could puree your own baby food. You spent months fantasizing about the perfect baby, and imagining the kind of parent you would be. And then the real baby arrived. And it all went to shit.
If you are the kind of person who did manage to puree your own baby food while keeping up with laundry and naps without once crouching on the floor of the shower and screaming silently into your hands, then you probably don’t need to read this book. This is a parenting book for the rest of us.
Better Than Good Enough is a parenting book to get you through the first six years of your child’s life. It is based on personal experiences, the experiences of clients and friends, and the best evidence-based practices in the world of infant mental health. This book offers concrete suggestions on what you can do to be better, and also why “being better” is so goddamn hard.
Michelle is Available For:
-Small intimate conversations about parenting with book clubs, mothers clubs, etc.
-Book signings and readings at independent book stores
-Panels at conferences and large gatherings related to infant-parent mental health and parenting (preferably not on Zoom)
-Clinical Supervision and Consultation related to children and families
-Trainings on Early Childhood Mental Heatlh and Reflective Practice
-Child and Family Psychotherapy
More about Michelle
Michelle Kaye is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an expert in Infant Mental Health. She’s also a mother of two who swears in front of her children far more often than she wants to admit.
Michelle has always loved children, ever since she was a child herself and would earn $4.50 an hour to babysit for infants (it was the ‘90s and standards were low). After receiving an English degree from Hampshire College, followed by a very brief and boring stint working in publishing, Michelle graduated from Smith College School for Social Work with a Masters in Social Work in 2011. Her social work career has focused on young children with special needs. She returned to school in 2013, earning a post-graduate certification in Infant Mental Health from UMass Boston. She currently works full time at a non-profit as the Clinical Director of Child, Youth and Family Services.
She spent the past six years writing a parenting book while doing the laundry, putting her kids to bed, in her car when she was early for a home visit and during 5000 other tiny moments. Michelle is passionate about a lot of things: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy Trilogy, and the fact that “joy” is the most important single element of parenting and therefore everyone should give mothers a goddamn break.
Michelle is endorsed as a Reflective Mentor and Mental Health Expert (0-5) through the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been supervising graduate and post-graduate clinicians for over a decade.
Michelle is the author of the parenting book Better Than Good Enough: A Parenting Book for the Rest of Us as well as a regular contributor to SFBayAreaMoms.com.
She likes to swim….but not in cold water.
Check out this video of Michelle reading an excerpt of her book HERE!
