TEENS
About Teens Rising Empowerment Programs™
Hi, my name is Dawn and I want to tell you something that you may not know or believe about yourself…yet.
You are NOT alone. You are NOT broken. There is NOTHING wrong with you!
I’m sorry if you haven’t heard this before. I’m sorry if you don’t FEEL this way right now. We’ve ALL struggled with problems at one time or another (including me), but you CAN change your life. You may not see it yet, but with a little courage and some effort from you, your life can and will get better! I’m living proof and I’m here to help you get to the other side of your struggles!
I offer private therapy and one group program as different ways to help you.
EMPOWERED, one of the Teens Rising Empowerment Programs™ is a confidential semester-long program. EMPOWERED is inclusive of teens who are part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and it was created out of my LOVE and passion for working with teens (YOU!) and my frustration with the crappy ways girls and gender-expansive teens are STILL being treated today. Instead of watching you struggle with low self-esteem, high stress, anxiety, gender dysphoria, body dysmorphia, and tons of pressure to look, act, or be a certain way for others, I do my best to help you gain confidence to live YOUR life as YOUR truest & most authentic self, while calmly managing the stress life will continue to throw at you. I guide you to self-empowerment in a safe and inclusive space–if YOU are willing to be an active participant in your healing.
If this sounds like something you want to experience in your life, then check out the group program below: EMPOWERED.
How EMPOWERED, one of the Teens Rising Empowerment Programs™ Help You
You Will Gain:
- Tools to shift mindset and hard feelings
- Confidence
- Support systems/Community
- Knowledge about your body
- Body-positivity
- Self-awareness
- Good friendships & relationships
- Courage to say, “No”
- Skills to talk to your parents, friends, etc…about hard things
- Sex and sexual health education
- Better understanding of yourself, your sexuality, and your gender identity
- Toolkit of practices to manage & release stress, anxiety, big emotions, etc..
- Sense of well-being through community project
Issues I’ve Helped Teens Heal and Manage:
- Lack of or loss of confidence/low self-esteem/self-love/self-compassion
- Handling stress/pressure (applying for college/HS, academics, home life, friendships, relationships, etc…)
- Peer pressure
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Self-consciousness
- Sexual harassment/uncomfortable standing up for self
- Sexual trauma
- Going to college/sibling going away to college
- “Mean girl” issues/gossiping/backstabbing
- Trouble getting along with parents
- Exploring sexuality/gender identity
- Not feeling accepted by others
- Feeling “fat”/being called “fat”
- Gender dysphoria
- Feeling excluded
- People seeing you as confident and perfect but not feeling that way
- Balancing life
- Friends being harassed by friends
- Questions re: porn, sexting, masturbation, kissing, having sex
EMPOWERED is a semester-long inclusive program that helps you be true to yourself so you can feel free to be just as you are. Through our time together, you’ll build confidence, relieve stress and overwhelm, build friendships, learn to talk about hard things with your parents, friends, etc., create healthy relationships, get support from your peers, be yourself in a world that’s full of judgment and expectations, handle online communication in healthy ways, do something good for our community, and more.
I create a safe, inclusive, and confidential NO JUDGMENT ZONE for you and NO discussion is off limits. The tools and skills I teach in this program can be used throughout your life—into young adulthood and beyond.
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