Over 5 years of clinical practice, working with hundreds of families, we've discovered that children who exhibit behaviors such as:
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Explosive screaming or aggression
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Constant meltdowns or shutdowns
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Screen addiction or alarming behavior
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Therapy or meds that haven’t worked sustainably
are suffering from unattuned relational environments.
Dr. Blickstein takes a holistic approach which blends medication management with evidence-based parent attunement training so you can go beyond managing symptoms and truly heal as a family.
Our Approach
Teal Dragon Healing provides integrative psychiatric care combining
comprehensive evaluations, medication management, trauma-informed
care, nervous system regulation, and parent-child attunement. We focus
on whole-family healing and long-term transformation.
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What We Treat
Anxiety - Depression - ADHD - OCD - Oppositional behaviors
(ODD) Anger and emotional dysregulation - School refusal and
behavioral challenges - Family conflict and disconnection
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Who We Treat:
Children & adolescents (ages 6–18) Parents and caregivers Families
navigating emotional, behavioral, or relational challenges
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Insurance
We accept:
Aetna
UHC
Medicaid (Connecticut)
Referrals
To make a referral, please email:
Welcome@tealdragonhealing.org
Proven Results
Undo the Mystery
Know how to achieve lasting results and rebuild your family. Learn and use proven standards for assessing and addressing child mental health.
We're in this Together
Grow in Community
Join like-minded parents and practitioners in online group coaching and in-person group support, plus in-person live events.
Create real change
Decrease Parental Stress
Learn new tools and protocols to finally, and effectively understand and address anxiety, depression and other mental health issues in children while decreasing parental stress.
Guidance at Every Step
Customized Support
Get 1:1 support for consistent, measurable impact on child mental health and family dynamics, included.
Meet Dr. Adena Blickstein
Dr. Adena Blickstein, MD, MPH is a holistic child psychiatrist specializing in child psychiatry and Integrated Energy Therapy. With a fellowship from Westchester Medical Center and a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.
Dr. Blickstein focuses on repairing, enhancing and creating sustainable flourishing and mutually beneficial parent-child relationships for new or growing practices. Driven by first-hand experiences of child mental health treatment during the pandemic, and through her own clinical work, she has researched and developed the TIARA protocol - The Interpersonal Awareness and Relational Attunement protocol - aimed at equipping physicians, parents, and educators with skills proven to enhance resilience and reduce mental health symptoms in children and adolescents.
The TIARA protocol has seen incredible results with 100% of kids lower their depression and anxiety by 95% within 12 weeks and by 50% within 6 weeks. This system has been developed into a reliable method for treatment and diagnosis, allowing practices to take on consistent results while avoiding problematic overload commonly seen in today’s pediatric psychiatry. As the CEO and founder of Teal Dragon Healing, LLC, an integrative pediatric psychiatry practice in Stamford, Connecticut, she applies her expertise in her practice specializing in reunification of alienated parents and their children. She has two adolescent boys.
Before I developed TIARA,
my kids refused to hold my hand
​After my divorce, my bond with my children was awful. I discovered a book called Parent Effectiveness Training by Dr. Thomas Gordon that changed everything.​
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As I integrated parent training into my clinical practice, I saw incredible results, and the TIARA protocol was born.
As a parent and a child psychiatrist, I understand the pressure that comes with watching your child spiral while the system offers you no real answers.
​Over the past 15+ years, I’ve made it my mission to help parents stop the cycle of anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation—so it doesn’t get passed down to the next generation.​
You’re not failing.
You’re missing the right kind of support.
​I specialize in helping parents of highly reactive children (ages 6–16) restore calm, connection, and emotional health—without relying solely on medication.
I’m not like other providers because I:
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Focus on prevention, not symptom management
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Work directly with parents, where real change happens
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Use a tested, evidence-based relational model, not guesswork
When parents heal the relational environment, children get better—often faster than anyone expects.
Find the options that are best for you
Too many parents watch their child suffer, simply because they weren’t given the tools to support them and themselves.
You’ve worked too hard to let fear, reactivity, or the system decide your child’s future. The cycle stops here.
Together, let's create a healthy family environment for your child.