Losing her mom at a tender age and relocating shortly after to a new country have helped Dr Tricia Van Rossum to understand how affected children are by events of their childhood, which may be why she now works with children suffering from mental health issues.
Many people are suffering mentally from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Dr Van Rossum does not want the mental effects of the disease on children to be forgotten and urged that parents pay attention to their children even as they try to navigate the new norms.
“I often tell people, it is purpose, it is destiny, it is sort of, I kinda got led down that path… In the sense I was sitting in psychology class in the US in my eleventh grade in high school and I turned to my friend and said, ‘I am going to be a psychologist’…,” she recalled.
