Approaching Your Child In A Better Way
How do you approach your child? Knowing how to approach your child with a difficult conversation is hard. That conversation might be...
Sometimes there are: No Bad Decisions
Today a friend mentioned she was struggling with what constitutes a “bad” decision for a parent to make. As a parent and mental health...
What to do when your teen refuses to make good decisions!
By Brandon Joffe, LCSW Often when a parent is seeking therapy with a troubled teen there are built-up resentments and fears. Parents...
The Tragedy of Losing a Teenager
By: Brandon Joffe, LCSW The tragedy of losing a teenager in a school, a family, a community, or a friend group is one of the most...
Handling Conflict Better
This weekend the pastor of my church gave a sermon on “handling conflict”. He stated the importance during this season of the world for...
Celebrating Sandra
For the last 7 years, I have run “Hope for Parents with Struggling Teens”. In this group, I have met some of the most amazing parents in...
The Therapeutic Relationship
When you need advice, want to grow as a person, or desire the presence of someone to listen to you without judgment, and you want to...
No Point To School
The most common reason teens give for not caring about high school and college is that most of the information they are learning is not...
What to do with smart, unmotivated kids!
Conventional wisdom says to nag and attempt to convince smart kids who are not motivated to see that they need to build their study...
No Such Thing As Healthy Relational Contract
As a therapist, I often have families and couples who come in and inform me that they have a contract, signed, that their child is not...
