Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and author who works with children and parents and serves as a consultant to agencies and mental health professionals. She co-authored with William J. Pieper, M.D., the bestselling parenting book, Smart Love: The Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Regulating, and Enjoying Your Child, which is the basis for the Natalie G. Heineman Smart Love Preschool. The Preschool serves toddlers through kindergarteners and exemplifies the Smart Love approach which is described in newly published The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers by Martha Heineman Pieper and Kelly Perez, the Smart Love Preschool Director.
Over many decades, Martha Heineman Pieper has counseled parents and helped children of all ages recover from emotional problems. Her work is thefoundation for the non-profit agency Smart Love Family Services, which includes not only the Smart Love Preschool, but also provides a broad spectrum ofmental health counseling, therapeutic tutoring, and other educational services to children and families. She has authored two award-winning children’s books, “Jilly’s Terrible Temper Tantrums: And How She Outgrew Them,” and “Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream!” For ten years she wrote the parenting column for Chicago Parent and also co-authored the popular self-help book Addicted to Unhappiness: How Hidden Motives for Unhappiness Keep You From Creating the Life You Truly Want, and What You Can Do.
Dr. Pieper was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Radcliffe College and earned her doctorate at the University of Chicago. Many of her articles on philosophy ofresearch and presentations on Intrapsychic Humanism, the comprehensive psychology she developed with her late husband, William J. Pieper, can be foundon her website: Marthaheinemanpieperphd.com
