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Building trust with a teenager is hard work. Hard? For sure. It’s consistent work, too. But the payoff is more than worth it. Trust between a teen and parent goes as far as you can imagine toward a healthy relationship. Trust is vital to pretty much any relationship in general anyway, right? Here is a…

So, you’re a high school senior, or the parent of one, and suddenly everything feels like a confusing mix of “I’m so done with this place” and “Wait, what comes next?” Welcome to the glorious mess known as senioritis. It’s more than just a lack of motivation. Sometimes, it’s anxiety in a cap and gown.…

Let’s be real: if Google could solve all your problems, none of us would need therapy. You’d just type in “Why am I crying in the school bathroom again?” and boom—a perfectly tailored solution pops up between an ad for acne cream and a TikTok compilation of cats doing backflips. But that’s not how it…

So, you may have seen the blogs I’ve written in the past about coping skills not always being the answer. While they’re not always the answer, or at least the whole answer, they are a necessary part of making it through life.  I can’t count the number of times a parent has contacted me to…

How does in-person or online teen therapy help? What do you actually do in therapy? How is talking about my problems going to fix anything?  As a teen therapist in Brentwood, TN, I get questions like these very often from people on a day to day basis. Frequently from my clients or people who are…

Why write about the wrong way to use coping skills? I get so many phone calls and emails from parents asking me to teach their kids coping skills. In the past few weeks, the misuse of coping skills has come up repeatedly, and it’s inspired me to write about coping skills…and their limitations. I’ve written…