What is Teen Forward?
Teen Forward works with teenagers and their parents who are trying to create a calm, happy family and survive the teen years.
Teen clients learn to manage anxiety, be less resistant to change, and stop feeling like no one “gets” them.
Parents learn to de-escalate conflict, communicate with, and understand their teens better.
Working through Teen Forward’s program offerings, teens transform unpredictable moods and behaviors, learn to language how they feel, and live into their dreams. Parents simultaneously learn how to communicate with, mentor, and support their teen in a healthy way that results in a calmer, happier home.
Services
Teen Reset
6 week group setting (via Zoom) where teens will meet together to work through the myriad issues that affect teens today, as well as get back on track if grades/behaviors/time management begin to slip after the start of the school year. Teens share thoughts and feelings in a supported, safe environment with activities and guidance to support development. Additionally, two parent calls (mid-point and end point) offered to work on family issues that affect the teen. Appropriate for teens ages 13-19.
Tween Reset
6 week group setting (via Zoom) where tweens will meet together to work through the myriad issues that affect teens today, as well as get back on track if grades/behaviors/time management begin to slip after the start of the school year. Tweens share thoughts and feelings in a supported, safe environment with activities and guidance to support development. Additionally, two parent calls (mid-point and end point) offered to work on family issues that affect the tween. Appropriate for tweens ages 8-12.
Better Together: Teen Success Needs Parent Support
Teen Forward’s 6 month signature program. Includes individual and group sessions for teens, individual and group sessions for parents, online support, and many other features.
The Journey
By Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice —
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voice behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do —
determined to save
the only life that you could save.