Stressed Teens offers Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy online throughout California. Mindfulness-Based Coaching is available online worldwide.
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy and coaching utilizes our natural capacity for awareness and neuroplasticity. The type of attention we learn to cultivate can disrupt our habitual patterns of mind, generate healthy nervous system regulation, and impact brain function and structure. While areas of the brain corresponding to stress and trauma decrease in volume, areas associated with wellbeing grow.
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy and coaching includes both cognitive and somatic (body-based) practices, and involves “interoceptive awareness.” This internal awareness of sensory experience is fundamental to all mindfulness-based approaches. Mindfulness-based psychotherapy and coaching also involves utilizing generative practices, where heart-qualities like self-compassion and generosity are cultivated to calm the inner-critic, and treat trauma, depression, and feelings of shame.
Stressed Teens invites and celebrates human diversity in all forms regardless of race, color, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ability, personal appearance, or religious/spiritual affiliation. All people are welcome and encouraged to be a part of our groups.
Children, Teens, Parents, Families, Couples and Adults can receive psychotherapy and coaching services.
Tending to anxiety and chronic stress
Finding the wisdom of depression
Resolving grief & making meaning after loss
Fostering post-traumatic growth through intergenerational and complex trauma
Navigating the stress and grief of the pandemic
Exploring sexual orientation and gender identity
Transforming shame and self-criticism into self-love and soul-care
Developing attentional regulation and discovering if an ADD/ADHD diagnosis is actually complex trauma
Thriving through relationship transitions and finding strength in being self-partnered
Creating home rhythms and a nurturance culture in your family
Our work begins with an understanding of your inherent wholeness and goodness. Where a medical-model sees mental illness and seeks to diagnose and cure, a humanistic, mindfulness-centered approach clears the way for you to actualize the strength, wisdom, and capacity for healing inherent within you.
Our initial sessions are dedicated to cultivating a trusting relationship, building rapport, and assessing current mental health and psycho-spiritual needs. Then we’ll work in partnership to create and implement a unique plan that fits just you or supports the growth and healing of your child or teen.
Our work together will be strength-based, include somatic (body-based) mindfulness practices, and lean towards a psychodynamic framework. We might incorporate journaling, dreamwork, ecotherapy, or spiritual inquiry, integrating elements from different schools of psychological theory and research.
As an organization, Stressed Teens is committed to cultural humility; to the ongoing work of unearthing our unconscious biases and healing the harm these have caused; and to skillfully and appropriately sharing all mindfulness-based practices.
In our work, we have seen how systems of privilege and oppression contribute to mental illness, misdiagnosis, and stigma around receiving mental health support. We have been inspired to work with clients of diverse backgrounds and to advocate within the systems that contribute to collective and individual suffering.
We have had the honor of working alongside and learning from LGBTQI+, Black, Latinix, and multi-racial identified youth; we are body-positive; and we welcome your cultural values and spiritual beliefs in all of the spaces we share together.
As clinicians and service providers, we are committed to utilizing the privilege we have been given to engage in advocacy, direct services, and dialogues that help dismantle systemic and structural level injustice and inequity, and to creating accessible spaces where people of all abilities and backgrounds are able to thrive.
