Therapy with Teens Training

Building Rapport & Tools for Treating Anxiety, Social Phobia & Depression

4 CEUs 

Saturday March 29th, 2025 9:30am - 1:30pm

$125 Licensed

$85 Pre-licensed

Working Effectively with Teens

In this training mental health professionals will deepen their understanding of effectively working with teenagers. Engaging with adolescents requires a distinct approach compared to working with adults or younger children. Adolescents are in a unique developmental stage characterized by significant emotional, psychological, and social changes and therefore require a specialized approach to foster trust and openness.

In this workshop you will engage with the tools and techniques necessary to establish trusting and productive relationships with teenagers and address the common challenges faced when working with teens who may exhibit resistance or reluctance to engage in therapy. This workshop provides practical strategies to help professionals reach through this resistance and foster a more open and communicative relationship.

This workshop also addresses how to manage your own apprehensions about engaging with a resistant or uncommunicative teenager. It’s not uncommon for therapists to feel uneasy or frustrated when faced with a teenager who seems uninterested or confrontational.

Learning Objectives:

• Handle resistance in teen clients with three new relational interventions
• Learn three new strategies for treating
  • Social Phobia,
  • Social Anxiety and
  • Depression.
• Utilize three new approaches to building trusting relationships with teen clients

Instructor : Jessica Zovar LMFT#111742, has been working teens and their families in our community for over 10 years. Jessica is passionate about supporting teens and parents through the often tumultuous road of adolescence. She has worked in schools, private practice setting and medical offices and has offered both individual and group therapy to teens age 12 and above. Jessica offers a compassionate, comfortable approach to therapy and is able to work build trusting relationships with clients. She holds trainings in IFS, MIndfulness in Education and CBT for teens and utilities somatic tools to assist clients in nervous system regulation.

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