Your Kid Is Not The Problem

Acting out behavior in most teens reflects an incompatibility between their skills and the demands being placed upon them by their environment.

Challenging kids will always look bad when they are challenged beyond their capacity to respond effectively.

Rather than reacting to their behavior, help your teen discover effective ways to respond to situations they find challenging.

Before learning the more complex skills of goal-setting, time management and social skills, teens need to develop the coping skills necessary to respond to criticism, disappointment, and change.

• Get to school on time
• Do homework
• Manage feelings
• Make new friends
• Clean their room 
• Take “No” for an answer

I specialize in helping emotionally intense teens, expand their “window of tolerance,” so they are less triggered into states of acute stress, rage, tension, panic and anxiety.   

I teach teenagers who do not fit nicely/neatly into society’s mold how to find their tribe, and discover that place where their gifts are actually celebrated, and not merely tolerated. 

I understand what teens need in terms of support and guidance, and can teach them the skills they are lacking -- and how to apply them in their daily lives.