Many therapists start sessions like this:
“How was your week?”
Let’s TALK about solutions
They assume teens know what to do and how to do it then send them off into the world without corrective coaching to improve.
👏 How 👏 we 👏 do it 👏 DIFFERENTLY:
Let’s analyze the behaviors that get in the way of you living your best life.
(We use an app so teens can track behaviors daily for real data.)
Let’s find the root cause and come up with solutions together to shift the pattern.
Let’s ACTIVATE that new effective behavior IN SESSION so that we’re sure you know exactly what to do.
Let’s model it, show examples of it, offer feedback and coaching to improve it in real time.
Let’s make a plan to generalize it to your everyday life and troubleshoot what will get in the way of using it effectively.
If a teen’s takeaway after therapy is “we talked about (insert stressful thing here) there’s a missed opportunity for feeling better that comes with the DOING, not the TALKING ABOUT IT.
Let’s do the work and walk the talk!