So, your 16-year-old daughter wants to have her boyfriend over for a sleepover? It can be doing difficult to navigate sexuality and intimacy with teens of this generation as this ” hook up ” mentality leaves us parents feeling that teens are far too gung ho and blaze about sex and that they don’t give it…
Reconnecting With Your Teen: Support for Parent–Teen Conflict in Logan & Shailer Park When your teen suddenly paints you as the “bad guy,” even when you feel you’ve done nothing wrong, it can be painful and confusing. Teenagers can create narratives influenced by stress, emotional overwhelm, or even the agendas of other adults—and this can…
Investing in resilience talk with your kids We all can recognise gaps in our psychological nurturing as children, just as our parents recognise the gaps in theirs and, hopefully, breaking that chain of repetition becomes part of our new parenting permutation. We never fully get there. Sometimes we slip back into the behaviours…
What do you do when you have a loving but disrespectful teen ? It seems to go with the territory of having this wonderful, feisty, caring, smart, and dynamic child doesn’t it ? Teen attitude, teenage defiance, and parent-teen conflict become part of daily life. She will argue until she is blue in the face…
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What can you do if your teen has a boyfriend you don’t like? It can be such a source of tension between you and your teen, especially if they are keen on them. Parents have very good radar when it comes to the type of characters that come into their kid’s lives to influence them.…
First 15 min consultation free Click to Call – speak directly with a Logan counsellor / Shailer Park counsellor
Medicate or not to medicate…. that is the question? Boy am I tired. Yes, fed up to the back teeth, of the divisive, useless, arguments around depression and use of medication. Sure, most people know by now that serious psychiatric disorders require medication. When your sister is telling you that she was born with the…
Seven Quick Tips for Talking to Your Teen (How to improve communication and build connection with your teenager) If you’re searching for how to talk to your teen, improve communication with your teenager, or why teens shut down when parents talk, these seven quick tips will help build trust, reduce conflict, and make conversations easier.…
Counselling teens can be difficult, messy, funny, and rewarding on so many levels. When a child is stuck in the throes of a protracted grief, it adds a new challenging dimension. I have been counselling a boy who lost his Mum to cancer a few years ago. He was withdrawn, sad and uncommunicative. He sat…