
10-Week One on One Mental Health Programs
We recommend scheduling the sessions weekly to help with retention and practice. You will be asked to purchase a workbook before starting the program for your child to complete throughout the program. Please note, the exercises will take no more than 10 minutes per day to complete. You will be given the option to continue with individual therapy after the completion of the program if your teen would like more support in implementing the knowledge learned! If they are already working with a therapist, that’s great! These programs work well in tandem with individual therapy. The topics below will be covered; however, because each teen is unique in their needs, one topic may spill over to a following week and some topics may be covered more quickly depending on the need.
Programs
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Healing Depression
Topic 1: Intake and Program Overview
Topic 2: Understanding Depression: What causes it, How to Cope & Feel Better
Topic 3: Exercises to improve mood: Tracking triggers, sleep, diet, spin cycle, breathing
Topic 4: Exercises to improve moods continued: Identify problematic thoughts, learn to reframe thoughts, let it go, agree to disagree, learn to express yourself and speak your mind.
Topic 5: Learn to manage stress, beat procrastination, problem solving, strengths board.
Topic 6: Develop a positive inner voice, journaling, gratitude, coping with rejection, and managing change.
Topic 7: Stepping out of comfort zone, safety net, emergency plan. Re-write the script.
Topic 8: Setting goals, lifelines, back to the basics, reframe thoughts, and how to put one foot in front of the other.
Topic 9: Create positive affirmations
Topic 10: Recap and implementing skills learned moving forward.
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Bullying
Topic 1: Intake and Program Overview
Topic 2: Understanding why people bully. How to create an environment of safety. Understanding when to ignore, respond or tell and how to ask for help.
Topic 3: Understanding cyberbullying and why it happens. Difference between drama and bullying.
Topic 4: What to do if you said something mean that you didn’t mean to say. Reduce the stress of online attacks, and come up with an emergency action plan.
Topic 5: Coping skills: journaling, creating a calming box, breathe, exercise, and identify special places.
Topic 6: Ways to boost your confidence, clever comebacks, humor, understanding what is in and out of your control. Learning to accept yourself and identify negative thinking.
Topic 7: Learn cognitive reframing. The isolating trap and identifying self-defeating self-talk. Learning to manage emotions: depression, anger, fear, anxiety, and empathy.
Topic 8: Real versus toxic friendships. Breaking up with friends.
Topic 9: Self-empowerment.
Topic 10: Recap and implementing skills learned moving forward.
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Managing Anxiety
Topic 1: Intake and Program Overview
Topic 2: About anxiety: Managing fight/flight, and mapping anxiety patterns
Topic 3: Finding peace within, understanding attitude and anxiety, looking at through patterns causing anxiety
Topic 4: Learning reframing: Cost-benefit, Worst that could happen, perfectionism, pressure to succeed, now to let go of control
Topic 5: Positive affirmations, finding serenity/courage/ and wisdom. Seeing the bigger picture and talking through anxiety. Writing it out.
Topic 6: Lifestyle habits to manage anxiety: eating and exercise. Calming techniques such as progressive muscle relaxation, centering, mindfulness, grounding techniques, and self-soothing.
Topic 7: Calming techniques continued: Using your breath, visualization, meditation. Higher power (if helpful), and problem solving.
Topic 8: Technology and anxiety, staying organized, managing time, and managing panic.
Topic 9: Test anxiety and managing panic, fears and phobias.
Topic 10: Recap and implementing skills learned moving forward.
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Improving Self-Esteem
Topic 1: Intake and Program Overview
Topic 2: What is healthy self-esteem? Recognize your power, claim your intrinsic worth, choose positive self-messages and the power of self-compassion.
Topic 3: Finding your authentic self, the perfection of diversity, who you are to your friends, family and society.
Topic 4: Discover Yourself! What are your likes and dislikes? What are your dreams, passions, and beliefs? Why you are here. How to celebrate your strengths.
Topic 5: Body Image: Love your body. Manage judgment and social media. Assertive communication and how to not take things personally.
Topic 6: Managing peer pressure, setting healthy boundaries, how to manage feelings and tolerate discomfort. The power of inner peace. Accepting mistakes.
Topic 7: Gratitude, possibility, conviction, responsibility, and positive decisions.
Topic 8: Facing challenges, setting realistic goals, problem-solving skills.
Topic 9: Moving forward, asking for help and turning things around.
Topic 10: Recap and implementing skills learned moving forward.
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Managing Social Anxiety
Topic 1: Intake and Program Overview
Topic 2: Social anxiety origins, triggers, and causes. How thoughts and emotions impact behavior.
Topic 3: Identify problematic thinking. Understand how the need for perfection creates anxiety.
Topic 4: Learn to reframe your thoughts. Coping with criticism. Start exposure (from avoidance to action!). Build exposure ladder.
Topic 5: Practice exposure in session. Continue exposure practice in subsequent sessions.
Topic 6: Exposure and reframing practice in session.
Topic 7: Exposure and reframing practice in session.
Topic 8: Exposure and reframing practice in session
Topic 9: Integrate, continued exposure and reframing practice.
Topic 10: Recap and implementing skills learned moving forward.
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Brief DBT Program
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Topic 1: Intake and Program Overview
Topic 2: Intro to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Mindfulness skills.
Topic 3: Mindfulness skills continued.
Topic 4: Emotional Regulation Skills
Topic 5: Emotional Regulation Skills Continued
Topic 6: Distress Tolerance Skills
Topic 7: Distress tolerance skills continued
Topic 8: Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
Topic 9: Interpersonal Effectiveness Continued
Topic 10: Recap and implementing skills learned moving forward.