The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

But in the months leading up to when I started treating Nia, we had begun working with Dr. Alicia Lieberman at the University of California, San Francisco, a renowned child psychologist who specialized in child-parent psychotherapy (CPP). This type of therapy focuses on children from birth to five years old and is built on the notion that to help young kids experiencing adversity, you have to treat the parent and child like a team. The groundbreaking aspect of CPP, and what Dr. Lieberman believes makes it so effective, is the recognition that real conversations with kids about how trauma is affecting them and their families—even when kids are really little—are critical.