Raising Teens - Supporting parents to raise your teen with confidence

  •  Are you finding your teens behaviour and emotions daunting and tricky to manage?
  • Have your queries around their mental health, potential diagnosis or school attendance?

Raising a Teen can be an incredible time time to watch your teen grow into an adult, but they need lots of help along the way from their parents.  The teen brain starts to develop from around age 9, so if you’re noticing changes around this age, this is the teen years in action.

It’s a time of enormous change and development for teens where they need their parents guidance and support, but in quite specific ways.  Often being a teen means going through hard parts of life including friendships, school, mental heath dips.  This is because it’s a period of finding yourself for your teen – which is why they need you more than ever.

I cannot emphasise enough how important you’re responses and reactions are for your teen.  They need you to create boundaries that work, help them with emotions and life problems they face without your fears and worries getting in the way. They need you to lead and guide them, and I’m here to help you with that.

If you’re a parent looking for help to raise your teen, here’s how I can support you:  

In a private Parenting Consultation will create a bespoke plan to help make things easier.  Available online and in-person in my practice in Blarney. A detailed plan will be emailed after the session to help you stay on track.  Fee:  €150

Book your consultation here

This self-paced Parenting Course is a comprehensive resource to keep referring to as your teen develops.  Buy the modules in this Essential Guide for parents of teens individually or the whole course for a 25% discount.  Price:  €60 for whole course or €9.99 per module.

Buy the Course here

Get bespoke help on the go in this online app where you can chat to Bethan as life unfolds. €60 a month.

Full details and join us here
Unsure what you need? Book a complimentary call here and talk it through

Free Parenting Resources

Download your free (realisitc!) 5 Steps to Calmer Parenting, helping you to:

  • Shout less
  • Be a calmer parent in those challenging moments
  • Be the parent you’d like to be
  • Feel less guilty, knowing you’re giving it your best whirl
Get your Calmer Parenting Guide here

  • The best phrases to use to help your teen and keep a good relationship (developmentally a teen is child age 9+)

  • Communicate with confidence

  • Demystify talking with teens

  • How to be the parent your teen needs

  • How to help an angry teen

Get your Teen Tips here

Meet Psychotherapist Bethan – 20 years experience working with teens and their parents for a calm, happy family life.  

My work with teens and families has spanned twenty years.  This has included working with self-harm and suicidal teens in Pieta House, facilitating parenting courses and working with teens privately in my practice and online.

In my practice I support teens with all kinds of difficulties including panic attacks, confidence, diagnosis queries/formal diagnosis including ADHD, ADD, Autism and Dyslexia, school refusal, self-harm, school/exam stress, bullying, phones, friendships, anger, anxiety and managing family relationships.

I’ve learned that raising teens is two things – helping the teen develop and manage problems that come their way and making sure that parents have the right tool, strategies and approaches to help their teen in the smoothest way possible.  I want all parents to know that they are the change their teen needs and the best person to help them through this precious, and precarious, time in their life.

My work with teens has been featured on TV with Ireland AM, the Irish Times, The Examiner and radio.