Chandra combines her love of story and cute creatures with her training in clinical psychology. She is Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and co-developer of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidence-based treatment for children under age 6 who have experienced trauma. She has spent over 30 years working to support families affected by stress and trauma. She writes children’s books to translate what she has learned about stress, trauma, and healing in the hopes that families and providers can use these stories to start healing conversations. Her free Trinka and Sam disaster story series, developed in collaboration with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, has reached over 400,000 families across the world.