Anxiety is painful.
If you are parenting a teen with anxiety, you know the struggle all too well. It may feel like there is nothing you can say or do that helps your teen’s anxiety. It just seems to spin and causes a wild amount of symptoms that feel hard to address.
Teens with Anxiety can be:
- Easily overwhelmed
- Lack flexibility and can be ridged in their thinking and behavior patterns
- Are easily frustrated that can lead to anger outbursts and irritable mood
- Fearful of social and new situations
- Difficulty sleeping or staying asleep
- Lacks confidence in themselves and others
- Worried more days than not
- May have physical symptoms such as headaches, stomach aches, and muscle tension.
- Difficulty speaking up and being assertive
- Trouble focusing in school and other tasks
- Challenges with their peers and friendships
- Restless and constantly on edge
- Challenges with eating, and sleeping
- May have sensory overwhelm and challenges
- Can be obsessive in their thought processes, and ruminate on negative thoughts, ideas, or experiences – even if they’ve never happened before.
- Can be perfectionistic in their approach to life and everyday tasks
Sound familiar?
The truth is anxiety disorders go beyond logic and deep breathing. You must support anxiety at the root to really to get relief.
It takes strategic help rewire and reframe the anxious teen brain.
Breathing, or trying to calm down or thinking positively is simply not enough. In fact, most teens find this advice completely dismissive and annoying.
Why?
It doesn’t work.
Anxiety is an internal job.
Many people think the trick to managing anxiety, is just breathing, using stress balls, or thinking positive. And, sure… that may help in the moment. But it will do little to create sustainable change, so we don’t get to a place of panic and overwhelm in the first place.
We must change our internal responses to anxiety to manage it healthy ways.
So, what if we were able to reframe our thoughts, managed our emotions, handled our relationships, and took care of our anxious, stressed out bodies and completely flip the script on anxiety and learned how to move forward in empowered ways?
Imagine a day where your teen…
- doesn’t get anxious every time something new comes up
- knows how to respond to their emotions in healthy ways
- could reframe negative thoughts, and create healthy, supportive ones
- had the confidence to express themselves in healthy ways
- cultivated relationships that feel healthy, supportive, and loving
- stopped over stressing over being perfect, and overthinking people and situation
How would your teen’s life change?
In this online program, I’m offering:
- Safe space to process hard emotions with a group of teens who can relate and empathize
- Coping tools and strategies organized in an online portal to be accessed at any time
- Parent Education so you know how to communicate with your anxious child effectively
Utilizing 15 years of experience with teens, I have custom designed this program to support your teen’s anxious brain by utilizing a variety of therapeutic modalities that are evidence based such as: Art Therapy, CBT and DBT. This program is a combination of educational resources on anxiety management, group sessions to process hard emotions, and parent education to know how to support your anxious teen at home.
Anxiety is complicated, and helping your teen heal is multifaceted and requires a 3-step process:
- Learning to manage your mind
- Learning to manage your emotions
- Learning how to manage your behavior
This three-step process is critical because one without the other, just isn’t enough to manage anxiety on its own. Anxiety is overwhelming, painful and confusing. Learning how to reframe anxious thoughts, support healthy emotions, while taking appropriate action is critical to successful anxiety management.
This is the very formula I teach in this group program.
Here’s what it includes:
Monthly Coping Skills Workshops for Teens: Online workshops focused on coping skills for managing anxiety symptoms. These are done live, and online where your teen can ask questions, and engage with other members. Modules are recorded so they can reference the information at any time.
Weekly Groups: These are done completely online with other teens. We will address that month’s coping skill lesson, and dive into how each member can apply it to their own lives. This is an opportunity for teens to engage in therapeutic activities, process what’s coming up for them that week, and build relationships with other teens. Group sessions are interactive, informative and they help teens break out of the isolation they so often feel when wrestling with anxiety. All groups are done online.
Parent Education: Every month a new training is released for parents. There is an entire section in the membership site devoted to parent education, and how you can support your anxious teen. Often teens believe their parents don’t understand what they are going through, or how to support them. This part of the program takes the guess work out and puts everyone on the same page.
Online Portal: Teens get access to the online portal where I post worksheets, journal prompts, workshop replays, and thought challenges.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Process: Before the start of the program, we will meet one-one to assess the clinical needs of your teen. I want to make sure your teen is a good fit, and will benefit from the structure, educational modalities and online group setting this program provides. During the assessment, we will learn more about each other, and decide if the program will be beneficial to your teen’s clinical needs, and desired goals. This is a one-time assessment fee of $550 and is a 60 minute session split in half: 30-minutes with parents, and 30-minutes with the teen. If at the end, we decide your teen is not a good fit, I will offer other services or referrals.
Cost: $1,550 per month. We will keep your credit card on file and charge you automatically every month.
Insurance: I am an out of network provider. If your insurance company covers group therapy services, I can provide you with a Superbill for the cost of the group therapy sessions to submit for reimbursement. All insurance plans are different so make sure you check directly with your provider to see if your insurance plan will reimburse for any portion of the cost for group therapy. Reimbursement with insurance companies is not guaranteed and will depend on your individual plan.
Duration: We ask for six month commitment to give time and space for the healing process, and for the health and continuity of the group aspect of the program. If you want to stop the program prematurely, you can do so with 30 day’s notice. We require you let us know, in writing, 30 days before the start if the next month’s session. Your teen is welcome to continue in the program beyond the six months if they are benefiting from the program and wish to continue.
EMDR Options: If your child’s anxiety is rooted in traumatic experiences, I can offer EMDR intensives to support them outside of the group process. You would need to request this as it would be for an additional fee, and not part of the group program fee.
Age Groups: We have two sections of the program available. One is for middle schoolers, and one is for high schoolers. Please specify which section you would like to apply for based on your teens age.
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