Dr Mandy Fessenden Brauer

Dear Readers,

Dr. Mandy Fessenden Brauer is a child psychologist. Born and raised at a boys’ boarding school in Massachusetts, she enjoys helping kids feel better about themselves and understand more about the world. She’s worked in California with Native Americans living on reservations, foster children, juvenile delinquents, immigrants, ill and dying children, an dshe had a private practice treating children of stars and victims of violence. After her husband took a position with UNRWA in Gaza, she worked with those traumatized by war and continued to do so when they moved to Egypt where she gave workshops about loss and grief and others for those dealing with pediatric cancer. She taught psychology at the American University in Cairo and was a Fulbright scholar at Cairo University Medical School. After living in Armenia shortly after the devastating earthquake and newly acquired independence from the former Soviet Union, she returned to Cairo. Currently she, her husband and three cats divide their time between Egypt and Indonesia where she writes, reads and enjoys walking along the Nile or strolling through rice paddies. She also writes poetry which rarely manages to escape her computer. 

Dr Mandy Fessenden Brauer is a child psychologist. Born and raised at a boys’ boarding school that her grandfather founded in Massachusetts, she enjoys helping kids feel better about themselves and understand more about the world.

Everyone makes mistakes sometimes and we can learn from them. There is a big wonderful world out there. Sometimes it is dangerous so we have to learn how to protect ourselves.