Could Your Kid Benefit From Counseling? Experts Offer 3 Questions To Help You Decide By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio and Cara Anthony June 9, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/mental-health/healthq-children-therapy-experts-help-parents-decide/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Asu-_lUdWCdBY4Jei6jJIZ5fiUq0b_vkfHi5tWj_5Jech4lOtsCx3PIFO1rkxTgxpw6ZM0KfJaiaPfUPN0Y2gT9cQDA&_hsmi=422921708&utm_content=422921708&utm_source=hs_email KFF Health News: Could Your Kid Benefit From Counseling? Experts Offer 3 Questions To Help You Decide HealthQ’s Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer share know-how for parents navigating the decision to seek out mental healthcare for a child. Divorce rocked the lives of Marcela Cabay and her daughter, who was a preschooler at the time. But counseling didn’t come until years later, when Cabay noticed her daughter was tensing up every time a storm rolled through or whenever they were preparing to be apart. “She was experiencing just a lot of anxiety, really starting to think worst-case scenarios all the time, just really struggling in her daily life,” said Cabay, who is a life insurance broker outside Austin, Texas. (Farmer and Anthony, 6/9)