
Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge is a trusted national media expert known for making complex mental health and parenting topics understandable, practical, and hopeful. Her voice is warm, authoritative, and deeply relatable, which makes her a strong source for stories that need both clinical insight and real-world relevance.
MEDIA INQUIRIESEmotional Dysregulation in Children and Nervous System Expert
Regulation First Parenting® | CALMS Protocol™
Host of the Dysregulated Kids Podcast (Top 1% Globally)
Author of The Dysregulated Kid

With 30 years of clinical experience and a frequent presence across national media, Dr. Roseann helps audiences understand what is happening beneath behavior, why regulation comes first, and what parents and professionals can do next.

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Dr. Roseann shared expert guidance on how parents can talk to children about emotionally charged topics in an honest, age-appropriate, and supportive way.
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Featured alongside filmmaker Scott Steindorff, Dr. Roseann discussed autism awareness and brought a grounded clinical perspective to a broader national conversation.
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Dr. Roseann contributed child psychology insight on how emotionally attuned grandparents can support connection, resilience, and belonging.
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Dr. Roseann contributed expert commentary on unhealthy family patterns, emotional autonomy, and the practical steps adult children can take to protect their well-being.
read the articleWith 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. Roseann is a frequent media expert who can speak on a wide range of topics related to mental health, children and family mental health and wellness, nervous system regulation, parenting, emotional dysregulation in children, autism, ADHD, anxiety, school behavior, stress, and co-regulation.
With her relatable style, she takes big concepts and breaks them down in an understandable, practical way that leaves audiences feeling informed, inspired, and hopeful.
The Dysregulated Kid reframes emotional and behavioral struggles through the lens of nervous system dysregulation, helping parents understand that it is not defiance—it is dysregulation.Grounded in neuroscience and written with warmth and practicality, the book gives families a clear, doable path to calmer, more connected behavior in just ten minutes a day.
It is a hopeful, regulation-first guide for parents who have tried everything and want tools that work with the brain, not against it.
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