Are things difficult with your teenager?
Living with a teenager who’s having a hard time can be exhausting. You may be dealing with anger, withdrawal, risky behaviour or worries about their mental health. Perhaps you’re walking on eggshells, arguing about everything, or lying awake wondering whether you should step in, back off, or do something completely different.
Sometimes, you might feel angry too, and that’s okay. You can love your child fiercely and still find their behaviour incredibly difficult to live with.
Parent coaching can help
When you’re in the middle of it, it’s hard to see what’s going on beneath the latest argument or crisis. Having someone outside the family to think it through with can help you see the situation differently.
We’ll look at what’s happening between you and your teenager, what tends to set things off and how your own worries and frustrations influence the way you respond. From there, we can work out what you might do differently, without expecting you to tolerate behaviour that isn’t okay, or to somehow become endlessly calm and reasonable.
The goal is to help you feel less at the mercy of what’s happening at home, more confident in the decisions you’re making, and better able to stay connected to your teenager through a difficult period.
Why work with me?
I’ve raised teenagers myself and spent years writing about teenage mental health. I also created the Teenage Kicks podcast, where I interviewed adults who had experienced serious difficulties during adolescence and asked them to look back at what helped them through.
Those conversations gave me an unusual insight into adolescence from the other side: what young people sometimes can’t tell their parents at the time, what they remember years later, and what the adults around them got right (and wrong).
Parent coaching sessions last 50 minutes and are available face-to-face in St Albans, Hertfordshire or online.
Cost £70
Not sure what to do next?
Book a free 15-minute call and tell me a little bit about what’s happening with your teenager. We can talk about what’s been difficult and whether parent coaching might help.
