Janet Sasson Edgette, Psy.D., M.P.H. is a psychologist, author, workshop leader, and speaker from the Philadelphia area, working with teenagers and consulting to their parents for over thirty five years in her Philadelphia-based private practice. She is the author of seven books, her most recent one being Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents: Helping Teens in Therapy Thrive in an Ultra-Competitive and Screen-Saturated World. Others include Adolescent Therapy That Works: Helping Kids Who Never Asked for Help in the First Place and Stop Negotiating With Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody or Depressed Adolescent.
For much of her career, Janet has focused on offering therapy services to young people that they actually value and respect, and want to participate in, eliminating the miserable and degrading tug of war and other power struggles many clinicians endure when working with this population. She has been teaching her approach, Modern Teen therapy for more than three decades to audiences through the US and Canada as well as to other teen therapists in her online coaching/mentorship program.
Janet received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, PA and a masters in public health from the University of Oklahoma. She is a native New Yorker, the mother of three young men, an avid equestrian (show jumping), and a lover of all dogs, especially pit bulls and Bullmastiffs.