For teens that struggle in school, getting back into routine following this time period can be really difficult.

Depression around the holidays often worsens and support can decrease due to perceived positivity from those around you.

Understanding what triggers are and how to manage them can make Halloween more enjoyable for everyone.

One powerful tool that can assist both parents and teens in managing overwhelming emotions is the DBT skill called STOP.

Has your teen said therapy isn’t working? Have they not shown any real changes in behaviors? There may be a key cause of this problem.

All change and transitions trigger to some extent, anxiety. Some changes and transitions are devastating, and some are exciting.

Your teen’s life is busy, and so is yours. You’re both looking for ways to incorporate dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) tips and tools into life.

Most of us, when we have to deal with “attitude”, would like to be able to just get them to stop it and do/be what we want them to be. What do you do?

Listening… not thinking about what you will say in response, what you will “teach” them or how you will advise them…just listening.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy has been studied with various age groups in research that show it’s useful for children from elementary ages through adolescence.

When a teen’s feelings don’t match the situation or there is no solution to the problem, teens need to regulate their emotions using Opposite Action Skill.

In this blog, I will share four ways I help my clients work on decreasing their inner critic voice while increasing their inner coach or cheerleader voice.

Have you ever noticed how much is written and said about forgiving other people? Yet how often do we hear that it’s just as important to forgive ourselves?

In order to begin to check the facts, we need to identify the facts of the promoting event that triggered our emotion. We can ask ourselves “Do our emotions fit the facts of the situation”?

I recommend this book for coping with daily anxiousness, because we often focus on the more intense events that trigger our anxiety.

My first tip for managing teen anxiety for parents would be to validate your teens feelings of anxiousness.

DBT teaches your teen actionable in the moment skills to manage intense emotions. DBT focuses on learning to balance acceptance and change.