Catherine Pearlman, Ph.D., LCSW

Dr. Catherine Pearlman, the founder of The Family Coach®, is a licensed clinical social worker who has been working with children and families for more than twenty-five years. She holds a Ph.D. in social welfare from Yeshiva University and a master’s of social work from New York University. She is the author of First Phone: A Child’s Guid to Digital Responsibility, Safety, and Etiquette (TarcherPerigee, 2022) and Ignore It!: How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction (TarcherPerigee, 2017).