Supporting Teens in Healthy Relationships: How You Can Make a Difference
January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month: What You Can Do to Help
Empowering High School Students Through Social-Emotional Learning: Preparing for Life Beyond Graduation
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Middle Schools: Supporting Adolescents Through Crucial Years
The Power of Social-Emotional Learning in Elementary Schools: A Foundation for Lifelong Well-Being
Nurturing Emotional Intelligence at Home: A Parent's Guide to Social-Emotional Learning
How to Help a Loved One Who Is Suicidal: A Simple Guide
September: Embracing Support for LGBTQIA+ Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
Shattering the Stigma: Suicide Prevention and Support for Parents
Shattering the Stigma: Suicide Prevention and Support
Breaking the Silence - AAPI Youth Mental Health
Navigating Friendships and Family Relationships During Election Season
Recognizing When to Seek Mental Health Support During Elections
Navigating Election Year Stress: 3 Simple Strategies for Maintaining Your Mental Health
Aromatherapy and Trauma Treatment
Gender Affirming Parenting
While acknowledging there are many different approaches to parenting I have found that all parents want what is best for the physical and emotional well-being of their child. It is not uncommon for parents to experience their own grief process as they leave behind who they believed their child was and celebrate the child they now have.
Mindfulness with Young Children
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic kids were experiencing high amounts of stress due to pressure from school, extracurricular activities, and personal relationships with friends or family. It’s important that parents help their children develop ways to manage this stress at an early age so that as they grow and experience bigger worries they will have a plan for how to handle it.
Navigating Friendships: Adolescents
As your children continue to grow and enter adolescence, friendships continue to be incredibly important. Friendships help adolescents form their identity, establish independence, find a sense of belonging, and feel accepted. We all know that having good friendships makes us happier, but there are many other positive benefits. Teen friendships are supported with a better immune system, higher self-esteem, lowers the rates of anxiety/depression, and much more.
Talking to Tweens and Teens about Substance Use
Drug and alcohol use can be a difficult topic for tweens, teens, and their parents, but not talking about it does not prevent tweens or teens from using substances. It’s important to remember that this topic is a never ending topic — meaning that it continues through middle school, high school, and college while they develop into a full functioning adult.
Tweens, Teens, and TikTok
As a parent deciding if, when, or how to give them access to an app like TikTok can feel overwhelming due to conflicting beliefs around if TikTok positively or negatively impacts the youth. As a child and adolescent therapist, I believe every parent has to make the decision they feel is in their tweens or teens best interest to keep them emotionally and physically safe.