I’m the founder of Kiddish, a boutique potty-training consultancy that helps families navigate one of early childhood’s most sensitive transitions with empathy, expertise, and structure.

Before founding Kiddish, I spent years working as a primary art school teacher and private nanny, experiences that shaped my deep respect for children’s individuality and taught me how to guide learning through creativity, observation, and relationship. Those early years in classrooms and homes gave me a firsthand understanding of how emotional safety and trust form the foundation for all developmental milestones — including potty training.

Over the past 5 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of families across the U.S., helping toddlers and neurodivergent children overcome complex potty-training challenges — from anxiety-driven withholding and PDA-style avoidance to sensory sensitivities and interoception difficulties. My approach draws from Montessori principles, OT-informed regulation tools, gentle behavioral shaping, and play-based emotional work, blending developmental insight with practical, family-friendly systems.

Parents describe my coaching as steady, insightful, and transformative — “the bridge between anxiety, development, and behavior.” They appreciate my calm authority, clear communication, and ability to make sense of their child’s patterns in ways that bring relief, understanding, and direction.

Today, I run Kiddish from the Bay Area and travel nationally for in-person intensives, in addition to providing remote coaching and writing widely about child development and parent experiences on Substack. I also collaborate with occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, pediatricians, and school teams, building integrative strategies that help children feel safe, capable, and proud in their bodies.