Psychologist, Author, Speaker, and Consultant, Dr. Brad Sachs specializes in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families, in Columbia, Maryland, and is the Founder and Director of The Father Center, a program designed to meet the needs of new, expectant, and experienced fathers.

His newest book, WHEN NO ONE UNDERSTANDS: LETTERS TO A TEENAGER ON LIFE, LOSS, AND THE HARD ROAD TO ADULTHOOD, was published in January, 2007, and is based on his between-sessions correspondence with a suicidal adolescent whom he was treating.

He is the author of numerous other books, including THE GOOD ENOUGH CHILD: HOW TO HAVE AN IMPERFECT FAMILY AND BE PERFECTLY SATISFIED (HarperCollins, 2001), which was named as an Editor’s Choice by Amazon.com and became its best-selling parenting title that year. It was featured on NBC’s The Today Show, and was excerpted in Family Circle Magazine.   MORE >>>

• WHEN NO ONE UNDERSTANDS: LETTERS TO A TEENAGER ON LIFE, LOSS, AND THE HARD ROAD TO ADULTHOOD
  download discussion guides | read prologue |
  read letters 1-3 | read Q&A | read praise for the book | order your copy
  (Shambhala, January 2007)

  
   

• THE GOOD ENOUGH TEEN: HOW TO RAISE ADOLESCENTS WITH LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE (DESPITE HOW IMPOSSIBLE THEY CAN BE)
  read preface | read Q&A | order your copy
  (HarperCollins, 2005)