How to Support a Young Person Who Won’t Open Up
“I know something’s wrong, but they won’t talk to me.” If I had to pick the sentence I hear most from parents — and from the residential care staff I train — it would be that one. You can see a young person struggling. You ask. You get “I’m fine,” a shrug, or a closed […]
Why Anxiety in Teenagers Often Looks Like Anger
If you’re living with a teenager who seems permanently irritable — slammed doors, one-word answers, explosions over things that seem tiny — it’s easy to read it as attitude. Something to be corrected, or grown out of. But in my work as a psychotherapist with young people, one of the most common things I see […]