Sue Redmond

Reducing Stress & Anxiety in Teens

This course is designed to teach young people aged 12 to 18 years old (and their parents) how to manage feelings of stress, anxiety, worry or low mood and build confidence to navigate common adolescent experiences. 

Whether your child is experiencing social phobia, school refusal, anxiety about their body or worries about where their place is in the world, this course will help them to take the driver's seat of their mind and move from feeling anxious to awesome. 

What you will learn

Through this course, your teenager (and you) will how to relate differently to difficult thoughts and emotions.  You will learn about the mind and its reactivity to stressful events leading to anxiety, stress or low mood. You will learn to train the mind to relate differently to difficult emotions and thoughts through cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and compassion.

This course may be suitable for young people and their parents who:

• Are struggling to manage feelings of stress, anxiety, worry or low mood.
• Would like help to build the skills and confidence to navigate common adolescent experiences. 
• Are currently between 12 and 18 years old.
• Feel sad a lot and don't seem to enjoy the things they used to enjoy.
• Are worried about a lot of different things like going to school and the worry is hard to control.
• Are stuck in the way they feel and would love some help to get out of this cycle.
• Are ready and willing to learn new skills to change the way they feel.

This course will help teenagers to: 

• Understand how their mind works. 
• Relate differently to their experience. 
• See their reactivity and learn to interrupt this pattern. 
• Build skills in soothing their anxiety or low mood. 
• Build confidence in connecting with their authentic self. 
• Love, accept and appreciate themselves. 

This course will help parents to:

• Relate better to their adolescent's experience by bringing awareness to their own as you work through the same exercises.
• Release their expectations and meet their teenager as they are, thus reducing tension or resistance in their relationship. 
• Find opportunities to nourish connection, responsibility and freedom with their teenager. 

What’s included:

Daily bite-sized lessons that teach core coping skills 10 minutes a day followed by a 10-minute practice. This learning builds a layered approach supporting your teen to learn about their brain and how to support its growth and development.

Daily exercises are designed to help integrate new skills and support your teen in dealing with everyday challenges and triggers.

Progress Tracking – questionnaires to help monitor your wellbeing and progress.

Weekly parents lesson to support parents in relating to their teenager and offer additional guidance. 

Building Healthy Habits of Mind

Habits are built over 21-days so this programme will help teens to develop healthy habits of the mind. Parents can take this course with their teen or in parallel, something to discuss at the dinner table. It can be used is at a launch into sharing your own experience of the practice, not an interrogation of theirs. 

Backed by Science

This course has been adapted from evidence-based approaches to anxiety and depression in adults to be more suitable for young people aged 12-18 years, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Adolescent Development Theory, Neuroscience and Psychology. MBSR, MBCT and CBT have been extensively researched and evaluated in RCTs and effectiveness studies.

No-Risk - My Promise

When you and your teenager turn up every day and put in the work, you will build up new neural pathways that help change how you both relate to the present moment. This course will help you both to train your mind to let go of negative thought trains and help you consciously choose where you want to focus your attention. If you do the work and find it's not working for you, you can request a refund. 

So, the question is are you ready to bring more presence, joy and peace into their relationship with your teenager?

WHY CHOOSE THIS Course with Sue...

Sue has been involved in designing, delivering and evaluating courses that support professionals to work with children, adolescents and families for the past 15 years. She has developed trusted programmes for the Health Service Executive - Ireland, Tusla – Ireland, Department of Education – Ireland,  Youth Organisations – Ireland and Internationally.
  

Sue has worked with children and adolescents since 2005, she takes a child-centred, needs-led and outcomes-focused approach to the programmes she develops to ensure they best meet the needs of users and are informed by best available evidence.
  

Sue is taking this wealth of knowledge from developing programmes across child and adolescent development to meet children and young people’s needs directly in their homes with ease of access and affordability. Creating connected conversations on things that matter within families.

Sue Redmond, PhD has a professional background in science, youth and community work and health promotion and sociology. She holds a PhD in Youth leadership, resilience and social support. She is a teacher of MBSR, MBCT and MBCL and is qualified in teaching CBT for young people. She is a transformational coach who works with adolescents and adults.