Kristin Kroll, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Little Dove Psychology, a virtual child and adolescent practice in Austin, Texas. Before private practice she was an attending psychologist at Children's Wisconsin and taught at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she helped build the hospital's universal pediatric suicide screening program and its telehealth program. She is the author of Pediatric Psychology in Clinical Practice: Empirically Supported Interventions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), has published in peer-reviewed journals on pediatric psychology and telebehavioral health, and has given more than sixty invited talks. She has also worked as a clinical expert training AI models, which is why schools ask her to speak about kids and AI.
Every talk is research-backed, warm, and built to leave the room with simple language families keep using. Most come with a written companion on this site that hosts can link in a follow-up email, so parents who missed the session still get the content.
Talks
Your Kid, Their Bot
A parent's guide to AI companions, anxiety, and raising a thinker: what teens are actually doing with AI, why banning it backfires, how to stay the person they tell, and the two jobs that never change. Written version: Your Kid, Their Bot.
Your Brain, Your Bot
Using AI without letting it use you: the difference between AI that makes you sharper and AI that makes you weaker, why the 2 a.m. chatbot feels so good, and the gut-check questions that keep students in charge.
Your Oxygen Mask First: Parent Stress and the Anxious Teen
Why a parent's own stress is one of the strongest levers on a teenager's anxiety, how accommodation happens in a loving home, and five things to do this week. Written version: Parent stress and the anxious teen.
What Every Parent Should Know About Their Pre-teen or Teen's Mental Health
How concerns are diagnosed, what works for ADHD, anxiety, behavior problems, and depression, the suicide warning signs that matter most, and how to talk about the hard subjects. Written version: Teen mental health: a parent's guide.
Helping Your Child With Anxiety
What anxiety looks like in a young child, the things parents say that make it worse without meaning to, and the language and routines that help. Written version: Managing your child's anxiety.
STAAR Test Anxiety: Helping Kids in Grades 3 to 8
What test anxiety looks like, what the score actually decides under Texas law, a four-week plan, and a two-minute routine for test morning. Written version: STAAR test anxiety.
How to Talk to Your Teen About Suicide
Why asking does not plant the idea, when to start, the two warning signs that matter most, what to say if your teen says yes, and how to help a teen support a friend. Written version: How to talk to your teen about suicide.
Managing Stress and Anxiety in Pre-Teens and Teens
The middle-school version: what changes at 11 to 14, the difference between stress and anxiety, and what to do at home before it becomes a bigger problem.
Telebehavioral Health and Teleneuropsychology in Practice
What the evidence supports, what it does not, and how to build a virtual program that clinicians trust, from the psychologist who helped launch Children's Wisconsin's telehealth program.
Formats: parent night, student assembly, district webinar, staff or clinician training, podcast, and panel. Talks can be combined into a school package (student assembly, parent night, and staff session in one visit). Sessions run virtually or in person in the Austin area.
Past hosts
Eanes ISD (district parent webinar), Westlake High School, Eanes ISD (Be Kind to Your Mind Parent Speaker Series), Eanes Elementary PTO, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Austin, The Magellan School, Austin (MIS Talks), Modern Pediatrics, Austin and Dallas, Heartfelt Dreams Foundation, The Jennifer Hargrave Show, Children's Hospital Association (Children's Hospitals Today), Medical College of Wisconsin Pediatrics and Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative, American Psychological Association convention. Dated entries with links are on the talks and media page.
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Kristin Kroll, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Little Dove Psychology, a virtual child and adolescent practice in Austin, Texas, serving families across Texas and the other PSYPACT states. She trained and served as an attending psychologist at Children's Wisconsin, taught at the Medical College of Wisconsin, helped build the hospital's universal pediatric suicide screening program and its telehealth program, and is the author of Pediatric Psychology in Clinical Practice: Empirically Supported Interventions (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She speaks to parents, schools, and clinicians on child and teen anxiety, ADHD, youth suicide prevention, and kids and AI.
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Kristin Kroll, PhD, is a licensed child psychologist, founder of Little Dove Psychology in Austin, and author of a Cambridge University Press textbook on evidence-based treatment for children; she speaks to parents and schools on anxiety, teen mental health, and kids and AI. littledovepsychology.com
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Booking
Email kristin.kroll@littledoveconsulting.com with your audience, date, and format, or call or text (512) 240-2633. Parent and school talks are usually scheduled four to eight weeks out; spring testing and wellness-week dates fill first.
Looking for care rather than a speaker?
Little Dove sees kids, teens, college students, and young adults virtually across Texas and the other PSYPACT states, with evening and weekend appointments. Most families start the same week they reach out, and we are in network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Optum, and Oscar Health. Every new client starts with a free 15-minute consultation.
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