Parents and Families With Struggling Teens
There is no guide to parenting a struggling teen.
Parenting teens means taking a different approach—moving from control to connection
You’ve been feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and totally lost about how to feel more in control. You’ve been arguing non-stop with your teen and your partner and it feels like a losing battle.
You just want to repair the relationship with your teen but you have no idea how and lately their behaviors have gotten scarier and when you try to intervene everything seems to end up worse.
She rejects your help at every turn and insists you’re the cause of her misery. Sometimes you feel like even your partner thinks it's all your fault and you feel so alone.
You just want a safe space to talk about something that feels so taboo as a parent: feeling like a failure.
Lately, you’re feeling pretty disillusioned with family life and parenting. You feel embarrassed and ashamed that your family has gotten so off track and you don’t trust anyone to listen to your pain without judging you.
I help parents who are exhausted and overwhelmed by the intensity of raising teens to rediscover peace and build connection in their families. My clients let go of the burden of shame when they recognize how much of their family’s suffering originated in their own families of origin.
These patterns of relationships that suck the life out of our families were passed down to us by our parents, and by their parents, and so on. It’s no one’s fault! It’s baked into the system.
In therapy together, we work to build awareness of your painful patterns so you can then make conscious decisions to parent differently. And when we wake up and shift our parenting from one of fear and control to one of curiosity and connection our families are transformed.
I’m a parenting therapist after coming through my own difficult parenting journey. I know the pain of hearing, “I hate you.” I remember the physical ache of leaving a teen in residential treatment. And I don’t forget the shame I felt around feeling like I had failed as a mother.
I offer my clients a safe, no-judgment space where they learn to let go of the guilt while developing tools to build connection and love in their families. I create a safe space, where it's okay to talk about your experience—even the thoughts and feelings that scare you or make you feel ashamed.
There is always room for both tears and laughter as we work together to help you transform yourself and your family.
