Navigating through the challenges of adolescents is difficult for both the teenager and the parents. Successful families focus on maintaining high levels of healthy connection and communication through conflict and emotions. When communication and connection weakens or is lost, professional support and guidance is essential. Parent and family coaching is a specialized form of support that brings a professional coach and therapist into your home to help your family manage challenges in a very practical, immediate and structure way.
Overview of Support
- On-call, in the moment consulting and coaching during challenging times
- In the home, consistent, and long-term
- Individualized programs to meet the needs of your family
- Regular family sessions
- Techniques for family meetings and open dialogues
- Structure and facilitation for difficult topics
- Creates family bonding and supports healing
- Reduces stress
- Goal-oriented and results-driven
- Collaborative between the family and coach
- Creates a team environment with personal therapists to ensure integration.
- Effective after-care program
- Possible alternative to expensive residential treatment programs.
For the Parents
- Learn to confidently and calmly address negative behaviors and intense emotions.
- Effectively use rules and consequences that are created in the best interest of your teenager’s future and rooted in your own values and personal boundaries.
- Support in holding consequences and maintaining connection with your teenager while taking action from a place of love and understanding while staying firm and clear.
- Communication skills and techniques for understanding your teenager.
- Learn how to ask questions and create meaningful dialogue with your teenager that promotes trust, connection, honesty, and healthy choices.
- Understand negative behaviors, teenage logic, and the teenage brain.
- Stress management and personal health
- Personal life-coaching
- Relationship coaching
For the Teenager
- Mentoring and coaching
- Consistent face to face meetings
- Focused on moving forward and engaging with life
- Goal-oriented
- Communication skills
- Increase Self awareness and Self-esteem
- Problem solving skills and big picture thinking
- Therapeutic support and counseling
- Stress management
- Use of the outdoors and adventure whenever possible
The Earth-Based Institute Youth Group is perfect for anyone, struggling with family and friends, returning home from wilderness therapy programs or residential treatment, or anyone looking for a supportive community of folks who are also seeking a healthy alternative to their current group of friends.