Coaching Parents With Teenagers For Life Success

How often are you feeling like you can hardly stand another day with your teenager? In my coaching parents, I often have people that feel exactly this way. Do you believe in alien body abduction? Seriously, you may feel like this is a totally different person from the child that you once knew and that would be correct! The fact is that this is the most challenging time to be a parent because your child is going through so many changes (developmentally, physically, socially, etc...) and becoming more independent while their forming their own self-identity. Many new problems can begin in their socialization and mental health due to these changes that leaves them vulnerable to depression, isolating from others, struggling at school, experimenting with alcohol/drugs, etc... But there are things that you can do to help them through this time with some guidance.

What kind of help is right? If your only seeing mild changes in behavior(a little more guarded, some moodiness, spells of confusion/forgetting...) then you might do fine to do some research on your own and take matters in your own hands. But if feel consumed by your teenager's behavior (drug/alcohol experimentation, dropping grades, much more isolative, increasingly defiant or difficult, etc...) or are struggling with whatever behavior on nearly a daily basis, then it is time to get some professional help.

This is likely the most awkward time in your child's life and it certainly can be one of the most pivotal. Although it can be a very challenging time, it is also an opportunity for you and your teen to create exactly the type of life that you both desire - with the right kind of help.

If you have made it to my website and your still reading, you definitely are demonstrating a geniune interest in doing something to improve your lives.

You might be saying, "Yes - I want the change but maybe I really can do it on my own." or "Yes - I want the change but what is it going to cost me - time, money, energy, etc.." or "Yes - I want the change but I don't know what my teen will think or my spouse or..." Of course, you have questions about how to get started and how to create the space in your life for getting assistance.

There is only one question that I ask you to consider before clicking away from this page, "HOW MUCH IS THIS PROBLEM WITH MY TEENAGER ALREADY COSTING ME, MY FAMILY, AND MY TEENAGER?" If you are like many other parents with teenagers you find yourself more restless, irritable, on edge, trouble sleeping at times, defocused from what you really want, struggling with your own identity issues at times, etc... Your teenager is clearly suffering and not making any real headway in their life. What is worse is that it could lead them down a path of great devastation that could affect them for years or even a lifetime.

If you had a way to effectively address you and your teenager's issues that was practical, readily accessible, efficient, productive, and cost effective would you not strongly consider it?

I have been a counselor/coach/healer for over 9 years and have had past 24/7 on-call experience with care takers of disturbed teenagers. I have also worked with parents and teenagers as a counselor for 10 years on a variety of issues (depression, anxiety, ADHD, drugs/alcohol, falling grades, behavioral issues, etc...). I have a keen interest in doing whatever I can to help you and in a way that is much more effective than conventional means. There are solutions to resolve the conflicts that you are having with your teenager. Please feel free to contact me to learn more (847-414-9508) or click here to email me.