Malena Ally, LCSW

LAST CALL! One more spot left in my junior high girls social skills group that starts on Thursday. Link to the group is in the comments.

If you feel like your adolescent doesn’t tell you anything....you may be probing too much or not asking enough.

Getting your adolescent to feel more comfortable opening up to you.

Helping your child or teen to build high self-esteem and love themselves.

PARENTS: Is your teen a people pleaser? Here’s how you can teach them to set boundaries with people.

A great first step for talking to your adolescents about race and prejudice could be an implicit bias test (or 2 or 3)! Your teen would probably prefer to do this alone, so you could both do it separately and discuss the results if they feel comfortable. This test has been around for many years. I took the first few back when I was in college but they have added many more over the years! One of the first steps in making a change and working towards growth in our lives is bein...g able to recognize the problem and ask for help. Yet, examining the problem and getting to the root of it is usually uncomfortable. This is why therapy can make people feel uncomfortable, sad, or angry. Therapy isn't always fun but it's hard to grow or heal without getting to the root of the problem. Don't worry, your answers aren't recorded and each test only takes a few minutes.