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 also writes and reads spoken word poetry (mostly about being a parent, but also about “Clippy” the paperclip guy from early 2000s Microsoft word) all over the Bay Area/where ever there is a mic, whenever she is asked to and often when she isn’t.
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:
-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
-Individual Child Therapy, Parent Coaching and Family Therapy
-Spoken Word
More about Michelle
Michelle Kaye is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an expert in Infant Mental Health.
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, 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 at a non-profit as the Clinical Director of Child, Youth and Family Services and provides Child Therapy in person in Pacifica
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 and is endorsed in Child-Parent Psychotherapy. 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 ParentingBook for the Rest of Us. She also writes and performs (funny/not pretentious) spoken word poetry.
Check out this video of Michelle reading an excerpt of her book HERE!
And another video of her reading spoken word poetry to group of unsuspecting San Franciscans HERE!
