Feel good about parenting a teen. Cultivate connection. Build confidence. I'm a psychotherapist and parent. Most of my 25 year career has been working with teens.
I now work with parents so that I can share tools and techniques that help bring out the very best in teens. In my classes and individual parenting coaching sessions I focus on sharing tools and techniques to promote positive change, increase distress tolerance, increase emotional resilience and cultivate connection. What I absolutely love about this work is that as parents learn and practice the
05/22/2024
Being fully present, open and available really is one of the greatest ways to be with a teen. Parenting a challenging teen? We support stressed-out parents of adolescents who want to feel peaceful, confident, and wise.
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05/20/2024
05/15/2024
Many teens feel emotions intensely. And because they lack the ability to navigate their emotions, they often resort to unskillful behavior as a way to deal. It’s important for teens to learn to be okay having emotions. Parents can help best by staying calm and listening mindfully.
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05/13/2024
While many moms (and certainly fathers and caregivers) get used to the guilt and agree that it’s just part of being a parent, there are others who, no matter what they do, experience a nagging sense of guilt. Here’s the problem: persistent guilt interferes with a parent’s effectiveness. Check out my latest blog post to learn what to do when the mom guilt won't go away!
MOM GUILT: What to Do When the Mom Guilt Won’t Go Away Most moms experience a moderate amount of Mom Guilt. Sometimes it happens as soon as you become a mother. Maybe it’s guilt that you don’t experience the joy you’d anticipated and instead, you feel exhausted and irritable...
05/03/2024
Sensitive teens develop unskillful ways of coping. They tend to get labeled – manipulative, lazy, crazy, or mood. Labeling contributes to their distress and what is truly troubling is that these labels can develop into self-fulfilling prophecies. Want to increase your teens chances for success? Avoid labeling.
05/01/2024
When parents see their teen in a highly emotional state, there's often a strong impulse to protect or fix. But protecting or fixing interferes with a teen's ability to learn how to navigate emotions skillfully. Parents can best help their teen by being present, listening mindfully, maintaining calm. The goal isn't to get a teen out of an emotion. The goal is to help a teen deal effectively with an emotion.
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04/25/2024
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04/22/2024
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04/19/2024
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04/19/2024
Rather than reacting to your teen’s emotions, focus on regulating your breathing. Regulating ourselves is the first task – it restores our nervous system, enabling us to think more clearly and respond to situations more effectively. This is exactly what we want to pass onto our teens.
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