Family Support Source encourages Proactive Parenting, which enables parents to understand and satisfy the needs of their children at different stages, while carrying on gratifying and successful adult lives.

Family Support Source is for anyone who wants to improve his or her role as an influential member of a family. We welcome mothers, and fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles, stepmothers, stepfathers, adopting parents, single parents, gay parents, divorcing parents, any family member looking to enrich the quality of a responsible life.

Family Support Source promotes Proactive Parenting from a very early age, through childhood and adolescence, into young adulthood. We believe that parenting is a never-ending process; there is always room for improvement.

Family Support Source provides initial consultations to obtain a working plan. This may include observation in the family, with follow-up meetings weeks or months later. We offer House Calls by request, and referrals to professionals if necessary.

Katalin is a consultant, a lecturer and a writer to parents, teachers and health care professionals regarding child development, behavior modification and proactive parenting approach. In Katalin’s practice she leads workshops, discussion groups and consultations for individual families. She is also a teacher. She has taught graduate courses at the University of Eotvos in Budapest, supervised graduate students at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at the University of Chicago. Recently, she has been teaching in preschool, at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Katalin has advocated and practiced proactive parenting for over 30 years. She earned her B.A. in Special Education and her Ph.D. in Child Psychology in Budapest, Hungary. She has taken graduate courses at the University of Oregon and at the University of Chicago. She also took an Internship at the Chicago Psychotherapy and Counseling Center.

Katalin had worked in Budapest for 10 years in a Child Counseling Center. She practiced play therapy and family therapy; and facilitated encounter groups for adolescents. She was a regular parenting contributor for the Family Magazine in Budapest, and appeared on national television shows for discussions regarding early childhood development and parenting issues.

Katalin arrived in the U.S. with her husband in 1983. She raised her three children in the Chicago area.
She published a book in Hungarian, “My Maternity Leave in America”, concerning her own experiences as a parent and as a professional woman living in the United States. As a direct result of the book, several parent/toddler groups were initiated all over Budapest.