In my Grand Rapids counseling office, I see a lot of stressed out teens who worry about their futures. They try to get the best grades they can and do all sorts of extracurricular actives to create a portfolio that will impress colleges. They worry about not getting into the right college and ruining their […]
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I just heard this saying the other day for the first time and it made me think about my own habits. The saying suggests to me that we all have a level of conscientiousness about how we approach things, from our jobs to relationships to keeping up our homes to parenting our kids. If someone […]
I counsel a lot of teenagers and young adults who suffer from low self-confidence. These are both boys and girls, men and women. One thing that sometimes happens is they find themselves staying in relationships that aren’t working for them because they’ve been allowing their self-worth to be dictated by being in a relationship, or […]
When I was a school social worker, providing counseling for teenagers, I worked with young children, ages 5 to 8 years old. These were easy kids to work with because they liked seeing the social worker and enjoyed counseling. However, several years later, I began working with middle school and high school kids. This was […]
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Counseling for Teenagers using SFBT
Download One of my first jobs was as a case manager for families and children. At the time, you couldn’t have paid me do counseling with teenagers because I thought they were rude, disrespectful, and walked around with giant chips on their shoulders. My original approach to trying to help them didn’t exactly improve my […]
ADHD and Aspergers Syndrome (now found on the Autistic Spectrum Disorder) are two common disorders that are usually first diagnosed during childhood. They can appear very similar in their symptoms but have different causes and different treatments. While many children are diagnosed with ADHD in childhood, quite often Aspergers Syndrome is mistaken for ADHD at […]
This is actually more of a Love and Logic strategy that I incorporate in counseling for teenagers and if you’re not familiar with Love and Logic, do a google search and you’ll tons of books and videos available. Teenagers have a tendency to screw up and do things they shouldn’t or fail to do things they should […]
As a counselor for teenagers and college students, I often see clients who are struggling with personal identity and need counseling for self-esteem and to develop a personal sense of identify. High school students, college students, and young adults often have trouble figuring out who they are and exactly how they should navigate their world. […]
As a therapist who works with lots of teenagers, I often talking about successful parenting skills. I often caution parents about not letting their kids spend too much time playing video games or playing on their iPhones. However, over the past couple of years, it seems just as important to remind parents about their own […]