Bryana Kappadakunnel is a licensed therapist, author, and founder of Conscious Mommy, a membership community helping mothers parent with more regulation, self-compassion, and self-trust. With over fifteen years of experience working with families, she designed the Conscious Mommy framework to help parents understand their own reactions and recognize the feelings and unmet needs driving their children's behavior. She is the author of Parent Yourself First, a 2025 Library Journal Stellar Selection, and hosts weekly community coaching sessions rooted in her clinical training. Bryana's work has been featured in Time, Fortune Well, Psych Central, Fatherly, The Bump, and other national publications, and draws on conscious parenting, attachment theory, somatic experiencing, and inner child healing.