Dr. Pally is a teacher and psychiatrist who received her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and has been in practice for more than 20 years. She is the Founder and Co-director of the non-profit organization called Center for Reflective Communities (CRC). CRC promotes healthy development in children by strengthen the relationship bonds that children have with all the people who care for them. CRC partners with agencies, organizations and schools to bring its reflective programs out into the community.
Her recently published book, The Reflective Parent: How to do less and relate more with your kids, aims to help parents feel less stressed and more confident in their role as parent. The book provides all the parent-child relationship building tools most closely associated with children doing well throughout life- emotionally, socially, academically, and at work. Her ideas about raising children are a synthesis of her psychiatric work, her work with CRC, her parenting experiences, well as her background in neuroscience and child development.
