BOLD Parenting

Talks & tools for the journey of parenting a struggling teen from the TWO TENTS Team.

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The Two Tents Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) utilizes Dialectal Behavioral Therapy - Skills (DBT-S), ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) for Adolescents in the form of DNA-V and exposure therapy. Our unique blending has become the BOLD Living Skills taught to help your young person and your family find more effective ways to regulate their emotions and thereby, their behaviors. All three clinical models have decades of evidence in effectively treating anxiety, depression, and the complications of ADHD, shame and guilt.

Week Validate Packet

Parent Initiated Validation & Trust Paid Practice

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Brief Overviews of DNA-V & DBT

TWO TENTS Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Designed to be helpful for adolescents and their parents struggling with School Avoidance, Suicidal Ideation, Self-harm, Depression, Low Motivation, Social or General Anxiety, Phobias or Perfectionism.

Anxiety Overview

An overview of and insight into the symptoms and struggles that people with anxiety deal with on a daily basis. While this is not an all-encompassing explanation of anxiety, it will hopefully give you a better understanding of your child's mental state.

Medication Manual (final).pdf

Med Management

A guide with tools designed to help your family understand the process of PSYCHOPHARMACHOLOGY (using medications to help brains work) and what you need to do to make it work for you.

Faith Based Parenting

Contains Graphic Christianity

Resources for those who already believe and for those recognizing their need is greater than evidence-based practices can meet.

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Typical vs. Problem Behaviors.pdf

Typical vs. Problem Behaviors & Adolescent Developmental Tasks

BOLD Living Assessment.pdf

Brief Assessment Tool

TWO TENTS Overview Packet.pdf

TWO TENTS IOP Overview

Resources & refreshers for Adolescents seeking more vitality

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Jason Bohn, LPC

Clinical Director, AdolescentsThe Anxiety Center @ Renew Counseling

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Two Tents Clinical Director Bio

I’m a GenX, postmodern, question everything person who happens to be blessed with parents who took in orphans, prayed for food, answered their callings and sacrificed so their children knew they were loved. That mix created an irreverent soul that cares deeply for children, families and especially adolescents.

I have close to thirty years of experience working with and for children, youth and families catalyzing change at the individual, family, organizational and systems levels. With a Masters in clinical psychology, I have provided crisis management, intensive in-home therapy and wrap-around services for children with emotional and behavioral challenges. I have 20+ years’ working or volunteering with youth and young adults through youth ministry and community programs. In partnership with North Kansas City Hospital co-created the Quarky app to connect Kansas City 14-24-year-olds to articles, events and resources focused on mental health and well-being. Currently, I developed and direct the Two Tents Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for adolescents struggling with anxiety/depression. We are building strong partnerships with our area school districts and I am an invited speaker on Anxiety, Grit and Parenting. These opportunities have made me innovative, practical and taught me to think about enhancing the whole safety net surrounding at-risk children, youth and families.

I have a wonderful wife, Kori, who founded and runs the Renew Counseling Center in Olathe, a beautiful 10-year-old little girl, Nora, twin boys (Grayson who is four and Jude who went to heaven way too early) and have recently adopted two foster siblings (5 & 3) Chandler and Milla into our home.

Willing to Present, Consult, Train or just be a Resource for Parents, Schools, Churches and Teens.

Two Tents Program & materials

BOLD from Get Out of your Mind & into your life for teens © 2012 Joseph Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes and Ann Bailey / New Harbinger Publications.
DBT® Skills in Schools: Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) by James J. Mazza, Elizabeth T. Dexter-Mazza, Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, and Heather E. Murphy. Copyright © 2016 The Guilford Press.

Voices of You is a free collection of 11 short videos that address common points of distress among young people today. In each video, a young person shares their own experience with a challenge as well as strategies they use to find more meaning and joy in life, despite the hard stuff.

By sharing these quick clips with the young people in our lives and work, we can help them see that they aren’t alone and provide them with simple self-interventions for building resilience and vitality in their lives.

This project is a collaboration between a team of young volunteers, Praxis Continuing Education and Training, and Dr. Louise Hayes and Dr. Joe Ciarrochi. Dr. Hayes and Dr. Ciarrochi are the founders of DNA-V, an intuitive therapeutic model for applying acceptance, mindfulness, and positive psychology principles with young people, and the authors of The Thriving Adolescent and Your Life Your Way. You can find out more about DNA-V at DNA-V International.