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About Kristin MacDermott
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About Jocelyn Baker

About Kristin MacDermott

Hi, I'm Kristin MacDermott, a licensed marriage and family therapist, creator of the MacDermott Method, and an expert in teaching resilience to teenagers.

 

My resilience-training programs have been validated in four studies (including two randomized-controlled trials) with researchers from The Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-review journals, and proven to promote clinically significant improvement in key mental health and resilience measures, including distress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and self-efficacy.

 

Over the past two decades, I have developed resilience-training programs for some of the highest performing people on the planet, including Navy SEALS, the Los Angeles Police Department, and healthcare providers at 20 hospitals across the country, including the Duke Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health. I have created programs for cancer patients, caregivers, divorcing families, parents, athletes, coaches, students and for mentors and at-risk youth.

 

My passion is helping tweens and teens (and their parents) learn skills for being self-aware, showing up as the best version of themselves, and developing self-esteem and self-efficacy. All of us will face obstacles. There's no preventing it. But when we teach children resilience skills, we open the doors for them to move past these obstacles quickly and access their best-feeling lives. We give them the tools to choose good-feeling relationships, to pursue their dreams, and to grow into self-confident, compassionate, solution-focused adults.

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About Jocelyn Baker

Jocelyn Baker is a ghostwriter with thirty years of experience creating resources that simplify complex topics. 

 

She has written and edited more than 100 books, including bestsellers, across a range of industries: parenting, sales, estate planning, neurolinguistic programming, sports, education, finance, marketing, hypnosis, politics, death and grieving, self-help, technology, economics, philosophy, stocks, fitness, and psychology.

 

Through her work as a writer, she became interest in the impact of words on behavior.

 

Jocelyn has a background as a successful copywriter, helping her clients promote their books, launch products, and convert leads into sales through online marketing. When she became a mother, Jocelyn began studying the impact of her own language on the development of children's internal working models.

 

In 2016, in the midst of a cancer diagnosis, Jocelyn met Kristin MacDermott—and she has not stopped picking her brain since.

 

Jocelyn her two children, Juni (14) and Keir (11), and her partner, Daryl, live in Los Angeles. 

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