About Me
Dear Readers,
Dr. Mandy Fessenden Brauer is a clinical child psychologist. Born and raised at The Fessenden School, a boys’ boarding and day school that her grandfather founded 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 and she had a private practice treating children of stars and victims of violence. She has also treated many adults whom she considers to be like grown up children.
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 dealing with pediatric cancer. She taught psychology at the American University in Cairo and was a Fulbright scholar at Cairo University Medical School.
She and her husband lived for one year in Armenia shortly after a devastating earthquake and newly acquired independence from the former Soviet Union, but then returned to Cairo. Currently, she and her husband and three cats divide their time between Egypt and Indonesia, where she writes, reads, and enjoys walking along the Nile and strolling through rice paddies. She also writes poetry, which rarely manages to escape her computer.
New Book
Inside The House of Blessings
Inside the House of Blessings and Other Stories about Egypt & Palestine (61,900 words), a collection of stories focusing on the Middle East, is about teens and young adults. From numbers alone, Arab world youth is a force to consider. As they reach adolescence, they inevitably face normal but embarrassing situations as part of their growth.
