Do you have a child or teenager
who would benefit from talking with someone?
Are they struggling with
sadness, anxiety, or working through a tough transition?
Do you feel like you’re slowly growing apart?
Are you experiencing family conflict?
I’m on your team!
Is your child or teen experiencing any of these symptoms:
Sadness or loneliness
Anxiety about school, friends, or the future
Having difficulties transitioning through a tough event
Difficulties controlling big emotions
Difficulties concentrating
Relational issues
Conflicts with parents or siblings
Adolescence can be an empowering and intimidating time of development. Exploring your identity, building relationships with friends and family, and embracing new freedoms all the while feeling pressures from school, work, parents, and the future ahead can often lead to loneliness, low self-esteem, panic attacks, social insecurities, irritability, difficulties concentrating, and a misperception of your needs. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness-Based Interventions have been shown to be very effective interventions in helping children and adolescents overcome and learn how to manage their big emotions. Click CBT and DBT to learn more about these interventions. Click here to learn more about Mindfulness.
Parents, navigating through these transitions while maintaining healthy boundaries for their family’s growth and development can also parallel with miscommunication and feelings of defeat. Allow yourself and your loved ones the compassion, reflection, and intent to use these challenges as a way to empower their sense of self and their connections with the world around them.
Research shows that children have their own temperament and personality traits (Chess & Thomas, 1986). I find that sadness, social anxiety, inattention, miscommunication as well as opposition, irritability, and disruptive behaviors tend to arise when there is a misalignment between a child’s temperament and what is expected from the parent. Empower your child’s extraordinary characteristics by engaging in simple but effective parental behavioral techniques, creating appropriate boundaries, and being intentional about healthy parent-child interactions.
Here are some things we can achieve with your child or teen:
Gaining a deeper understanding of what is bothering them and how it affects their daily functioning
Getting unstuck from unhealthy thinking patterns
Relieving their mind and body of unwanted tension
A clearer sense of who they are and how they fit in the world around you
Greater ability in coping with big emotions
Applying effective research-based techniques in their day-to-day activities
Simple but effective parenting techniques
Greater self-compassion and empathy towards others
Identifying what their values and goals are and how to achieve them
Taking control of their life and daily schedule
Building their own efficacy and strengthening their resiliency