Leslie Cohen-Rubury
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Is My Child A Monster? A brand new parenting therapy podcast. You get to be a fly on the wall in Leslie Cohen-Rubury’s office and listen in as she sits with parents who share their stories in therapy sessions recorded live.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Recorded coaching sessions reveal the family patterns beneath everyday conflict and turn them into specific, usable parenting choices.
A child's blowup is rarely allowed to remain a simple behavior problem here. Leslie Cohen-Rubery listens to parents in recorded coaching sessions, then slows the situation down until the feelings, assumptions, and family patterns beneath it become visible.
A grocery cart standoff gets you a better option than 'because you're older.'
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A mother and daughter revisit misophonia, missed understanding, and the validating turn that helped family life.
Mealtimes become the entry point for a careful look at validation, as Dale Rubury recalls how slurping and other eating sounds left her overwhelmed, othered, and misunderstood.
A calm reminder that tech limits work best when they fit the child in front of you.
Karen's parenting session frames a familiar tech fight with a useful point: fair does not always mean equal. Three children, three reactions, and the parent in the middle has to read each one differently.
A steady, useful conversation about phones, modeling, and the strain of constant reachability.
This episode lands in the hard middle of parenting in a phone-saturated world: how do you talk to a kid about screens when they are shaping self-worth and development at the same time?
A calm coaching session about everyday conflict in family life.
Kevin and Scott's final session with Leslie Cohen-Rubary keeps its focus on the everyday friction that can build when two neurodivergent boys, three-year-old Gavin and four-year-old Arthur, are not on the same page as their parents.
A grounded coaching session on grief, playful connection, and reward systems that stop working.
Parenting two neurodivergent boys is treated here as a conversation about grief as much as behavior. Kevin and Scott describe life with seven-year-old Gavin and four-year-old Arthur, both diagnosed with ADHD, with Arthur also recently diagnosed with autism.
A grounded conversation about ADHD, mixed parental reactions, and the value of clear explanation.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary frames the episode around a familiar tension: one parent keeps a more hopeful tone while the other sounds more worried. That contrast gives the discussion its shape, especially as Margo's new ADHD diagnosis prompts the family to adjust.
When co-parent strain shows up in the kids, the conversation turns sharp, humane, and useful.
The episode starts with sibling rivalry, but it settles into something heavier: co-parent tension, parental overwhelm, and the way kids absorb what is going on around them.
A steady look at how parenting fear can steer a family off course.
Anna's session keeps coming back to fear, and that gives it a clear center. Leslie Cohen-Ruby ties sibling rivalry, kids growing up too fast, and a glue-stick fight to the way anxious reactions can throw a parent off balance.
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
Anna, a stay-at-home mother of three, comes to Leslie Cohen-Rubary worn down by constant sibling conflict and the feeling that her children are always fighting for her attention.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary meets again with Crystal and Bert in a second session as they work through Matt's first phone.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary works with Jean and Alex on six-year-old Ellie, whose sensitivities show up in hugs, hair touching her face, and removing a Band-Aid.
Leslie Cohen-Rewberry and her daughter Dale build a five-step conflict-resolution model for sibling rivalry on Is My Child a Monster?, with empathy named as the step that is most often skipped.
Leslie Cohen-Rubery works with Nikki and AJ on how their 11-year-old daughter Lily reacts to school stress, shower resistance, and morning routines.
Leslie Cohen-Rubery and producer Alita Cooper use a bonus episode of Is My Child a Monster?
Leslie Cohen-Rubery talks with licensed psychologist Dr.
Karen comes back for a second coaching session with Leslie Cohen-Rubary.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary uses Nikki and AJ’s email conflict to teach the DBT communication skill DEAR MAN, with AJ admitting he did not know how to respond to a trauma-resource email.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary and Dr.
Karen returns for her final coaching session, and the conversation starts in a familiar place: shame, adequacy, and the sense that parenting should come more naturally.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary sits with Nikki and AJ, parents of 11-year-old Lily.
Jean and Alex return for a second session with Leslie Cohen-Rubary around a familiar parenting strain: one child wants constant closeness, while the parent is frustrated and needs a break.
Jean and Alex return for the third and final session, and the focus is on getting unstuck.
Sarah's final session starts in shame.
Kevin and Scott return with Gavin's homework struggle still front and center.
Karen comes in with a familiar problem: three children, three different reactions to technology limits.
Leslie Cohen-Rubery interviews Max Stossel, founder of Social Awakening and former social media strategist, about how smartphones and social media function like slot machines for kids' brains.
In this final coaching session with Kevin and Scott, parents of two neurodivergent boys (3-year-old Gavin and 4-year-old Arthur), therapist Leslie Cohen-Rubury teaches practical DBT-based mindfulness and communication skills for everyday parenting challenges.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary wraps up her final session with Crystal and Bird.
Leslie Cohen-Rubery meets Crystal and Bert, parents of 12-year-old Matt and 8-year-old Margo, and opens with a familiar family complaint about sibling rivalry.
In this live parenting coaching session, stay-at-home mom Anna returns to discuss sibling rivalry between her three children and her fears about approaching preteen years.
AJ opens by describing Lily leaving wrappers on the counter, then notices that he gets less tense when he asks her calmly to throw them away.
Jen Sims, a licensed professional counselor and registered play therapist with 16 years of experience, joins Leslie Cohen-Rubary on Is My Child A Monster?
This bonus episode explores rigid thinking, also known as all or nothing or black and white thinking, and its impact on parenting and family dynamics, with host Leslie Cohen-Rubury discussing definitions and implications with producer Alita Cooper.
Leslie Cohen-Rubary talks with licensed clinical counselor and behaviorist Amy Kalasunas about when to accommodate a child and when to stand firm.