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What Your Teen's Therapist Wishes You Knew: 7 Insights for Parents
Parenting a teenager can sometimes feel like trying to solve a puzzle where the pieces keep shifting — frustrating, confusing, weird at...
abbiebalat1
7 days ago4 min read
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Teens, Technology, & Mental Health: Tips for Navigating the Digital World Together
It's 10pm and your teen is still glued to their phone. Again. You can't say that you're surprised and at the same time, you continue to...
abbiebalat1
Apr 194 min read
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Helping Your Teen Thrive During Finals Season: 4 Tips for Parents
Finals week in high school is overwhelming - for teens and  their parents. Between late-night studying, the mounting pressure of...
abbiebalat1
Apr 73 min read
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Raising Teens: How to Tend to Your 'Wild Garden' Without Losing Your Mind
Yes, this is possible even when they seem to want nothing to do with you! Let me explain. One key task of adolescence is developing a...
abbiebalat1
Apr 17 min read
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Walk and Talk Therapy: How Will My Teen Benefit?
Many of the teens that I've worked with have expressed that walking into a stranger's office space and sharing their deepest, darkest...
abbiebalat1
Mar 243 min read
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Attachment & the Teen Brain: How Trauma Shapes Development and What Parents Can Do
Adolescence (which begins at puberty and ends when one reaches adulthood, fully encompassing those teenage years) is a time marked by...
abbiebalat1
Mar 177 min read
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