Posts by Jamie Dana, MC, LPC
Why Self-Care is Important For Your Teen’s Well-Being
By: Hannah Fillinger Life as a teenager can sometimes feel overwhelming, with school, social life, extracurricular activities, and other responsibilities competing for your time and attention. When life gets busy, it can be easy to forget to take care of yourself. This is where self-care comes in. What Is Self-Care? The term “self-care” has become…
Read MoreBehind the Behavior: Executive Functioning in Teens
Your teen can explain a complicated concept, master the strategy behind a new game, and remember an astonishing amount of information about their favorite subject. Then they forget to submit the assignment they already completed, lose their water bottle for the third time this week, and appear genuinely surprised that the science project is due…
Read MoreSupporting Your Teen Through Grief
Grief is one of the most painful, confusing experiences we go through as humans. The permanence of death is hard to grapple with, and it often arrives wrapped in denial, shock, anger, and sadness — sometimes all in the same hour. As adults, our own pain and the bigger questions loss raises about life and…
Read MoreFinding Your Fit: How to Choose the Right Therapist
Deciding to look for a therapist can be a big step. Then you begin searching and find dozens of profiles filled with credentials, specialties, treatment approaches, and enough acronyms to create a very confusing bowl of alphabet soup. One therapist uses CBT. Another specializes in EMDR. Someone else describes an approach you’ve never heard of…
Read MoreHelping Your Gifted Teen Speak Up for What They Need
If you’re parenting a gifted teen, you may be very familiar with the strength of their voice. They can explain exactly why a rule doesn’t make sense, find the one loophole you missed, or offer a surprisingly convincing argument for why bedtime should be later. And yet, that same teen may freeze when they need…
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