Roya Dedeaux

Roya Dedeaux is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a focus on using creativity of all types to help parents, kids, and teens who feel like they don’t quite fit the mold. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Recreation and a Master’s degree in Counseling from California State University, Long Beach where she taught in the Recreation and Leisure Studies department for over a decade.

This experience has led her to a private therapy practice, authoring several books, and creating games and a series of parenting courses.  She has been a featured or keynote speaker at over 60 conferences, providing creative tools and clinical expertise for parents and their teens with anxiety during the difficult “launching to adulthood” stage.

As a grown homeschooler, she conducted the largest study related to mental health and homeschooling in the United States.  Her first book Connect with Courage: practical ways to work through fear and find joy in the places your kids take you and her children’s book, This Is The Head That I Have are available at all major book retailers.

Roya specializes in using art in her therapy practice and loves to play, craft, and make messes with her wild and wonderful children, husband, and animals where they live in Southern California.