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Partnering With the Parents of Your Adolescent Clients: The art of being the humblest person in the room

Presenter: Liza Kramer
Date: June 20, 2023
Time: 19:00-21:00 IST
Location: Online

Course Overview

As mental health professionals, we strive to remain empathic and non-judgmental towards our adolescent clients. However, as we listen to their struggles, we may become acutely aware of the challenges, shortcomings, or pathologies of their parents. This workshop offers valuable insights and strategies for partnering with parents when working with adolescent clients.

We will explore effective approaches for engaging with parents, including how to navigate the challenges and frustrations of parenting during the teen years. Additionally, this workshop will provide practical tools and techniques for collaborating with parents to support their adolescent's mental health and well-being.

More importantly, we will delve into our greatest responsibility as clinicians of teens: facilitating the creation or rebuilding of a stronger bond between our adolescent clients and their parents - a relationship that teens crave and need, while humbly holding the space as a transient figure in their lives.

In addition, the workshop will challenge clinicians to lean into the very human struggle of navigating teens and how we can truly empathize with their parents. We will also create a space to discuss our own challenges as clinicians who are also parents of teens and how to navigate our professional life when our own children are struggling.

Liza Kramer

Liza is a Family Therapist specializing in working with teens, their parents, young adults and those in life transitions. Liza began her career working with religious youth in crisis. She directed the “Girls Clubhouse” program both in London and Israel for close to a decade, and was also the school counselor For GMAX College Jerusalem. Liza developed “Thrive” workshops for teens which she ran for many years throughout Israel. Today Liza runs a Private practice in Raanana, She also runs a “Social and Emotional Growth program” for tweens, as well as courses for parents of teens. Liza is in her second year of training in Somatic Experiencing Trauma therapy and volunteers with the Hatzala emergency Psycho Trauma Unit. Liza is a wife and mom to 5 perfectly imperfect kids.

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