Molly Pope, Ed.S.

Finding the right help for your child is hard. You ask your trusted friends and neighbors for recommendations. You find yourself doing late night google searches for child psychologists and therapists that leave you feeling overwhelmed and not sure who to trust.

I’m Molly Pope. I help worried parents improve their child’s behavior so their homes can be a place of calm. My passion has always been working with adults who take care of children, be them parents or teachers. They’re both incredibly tough jobs, where you feel like you’re just winging it some days. It helps to talk it out with someone who gets it. Working with children, families and teachers for the past 15 years as a school psychologist, I get it. While I’ve worked with children and families with various diagnoses such as ADHD, Anxiety, Autism, Developmental Delays and Learning Differences, I know that children are so much more than their labels. For these children, and their families, traditional parenting strategies might not work. We’ll figure out what does. 

My passion for children led me to complete my graduate certificate from Erikson Institute in Chicago in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. It is an amazing privilege to support new families as they learn the ropes of parenting, and preschools as they care and teach each little person that walks in their door. My work with schools is guided by the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families, which emphasize inclusion, equity and diversity in all settings. I work to acknowledge how my own biases show up in my work with children and families. 

I love my husband, our two boys, and all our animals. I love to bake and lick the spoon. I got brave and learned to surf a few years ago and now I’m hooked, which as a Midwesterner, means I have to travel to find my waves. That’s led me on some amazing adventures to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Morocco.

I know what it’s like to struggle as a parent. I had to get over the shame of being a yeller. I came to see that I was just parenting the way I had been parented. I found a parent coach. She helped me learn new ways. I wasn’t so overwhelmed by my son’s big behavior and our whole family benefited. I started meditating. I’m less reactive now, but still a work in progress.

You are a work in progress too. Having a caring person walk with me through my doubts and worries made all the difference. Let me be that person for you.