Transforming Teen Therapy Series: Beyond Resistance

Recorded: 2022

This new workshop series based on David’s original work and book will help you transform your practice with teens!

You don’t have to take all workshops in the series. Each workshop stands alone.

Many teens hate therapy – presenting as resistant, oppositional, or simply apathetic. The truth, however, is much less pessimistic. They’re stuck! We’ll start this workshop by exploring common sources of this stuckness, ways it exacerbates other problems, and ideas for helping teens move forward. Next, we’ll consider what happens when developmental tasks aren’t completed. This includes three important concepts common among stuck teens – developmental debt, maladaptive task completion, and stalled identity formation. Along the way, we’ll explore variety of field-tested strategies for helping these teens get unstuck.

EPDC CE Hours: 3
Presenter: Emily Hughes LMFT, SUDP, CMHS

Emily is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Substance Use Disorder Professional and a clinical supervisor with the state of Washington. Emily has a private practice that is telehealth based with an office in South King County. She sees adults, teens and couples. Emily has also been involved in training and teaching and has done so with NW ATTC, the Washington Mental Health Counselor’s Association, City University of Seattle and she has been a guest speaking at a variety of schools in the greater Seattle area. Throughout her career she has worked in crisis management and stabilization primarily with youth and young adults. This work was done in a community based mental health agency, as the lead for a crisis outreach team and as a mental health evaluator at Seattle Children’s Hospital emergency room. In her work with clients, her areas of expertise include working with teens, young adults, adults and couples in life transition and mood-related disorders, and around self-harm/suicide assessment, prevention, intervention, and management, the intersection of co-occurring disorders and in clinical supervision.