Sara on Breakfast Television

Sara Dimerman, Dip.C.S., C.Psych.Assoc., is registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario as an individual, couple and family therapist. In 1990, she founded and is the Director of the Parent Education and Resource Centre in Thornhill, Ontario.

Sara’s private practise, out of the Parent Education Resource Centre, includes counselling and consulting with and in regards to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. The Parent Education and Resource Centre offers counselling, parent education, art therapy, and other psychological services all under one roof. Registered Psychologists assess children and adults for intellectual strengths or weaknesses, emotional concerns, and learning disabilities.

In 1997, the Parent Education and Resource Centre was voted as offering the best parenting course in Thornhill, Ontario by the Post Newspaper. In 1996, the Parent Education and Resource Centre received a recognition award from the York Region Healthy Community Coalition for its outstanding contribution and commitment to healthy communities. In April 2004, at the York Region’s In Celebration of Women awards ceremony, Sara received an Education Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sara’s articles can be read here, as well as in publications across Canada, (such as Today’s Parent Magazine, West Coast Families, and Calgary’s Child), the United States (such as Central Oregon Family News, Sacramento Parent, and Jewish Journal Boston North) and internationally in magazines in the United Kingdom and Tokyo.

Sara is the child and family therapy expert at www.canadianparents.com. She also contributes to other websites including kidsaroundcanada.com, newmarketbaby.ca, yummymummyclub.ca, edmontonschild.com, practicalmum.com, savvymom.ca and helpwevegotkids.com.

Sara is relied upon by the media as a parenting and relationship expert: she is regularly quoted in magazine and newspaper articles and appears on radio and television across North America (see the Media Appearances page for a complete listing).

Sara’s first book, Am I a Normal Parent? (Hatherleigh Press, USA) was published in 2008. Her second book, Character Is the Key: How to Unlock the Best in Our Children and Ourselves (Wiley & Sons, Canada) was released in August, 2009. Her third book will be published by Simon and Schuster Canada in August, 2012.

Sara lives in the Greater Toronto Area, is married and has two daughters, aged 12 and twenty.