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Talks & tools for the journey of parenting a struggling teen from the TWO TENTS Team.
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.
Brief Overviews of DNA-V & DBT
Brief Overviews of DNA-V & DBT
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.
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.
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).pdfMed Management
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.
Contains Graphic Christianity
Resources for those who already believe and for those recognizing their need is greater than evidence-based practices can meet.
Typical vs. Problem Behaviors.pdfTypical vs. Problem Behaviors & Adolescent Developmental Tasks
BOLD Living Assessment.pdfBrief Assessment Tool
TWO TENTS Overview Packet.pdfTWO TENTS IOP Overview
Two Tents Clinical Director Bio
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.
Willing to Present, Consult, Train or just be a Resource for Parents, Schools, Churches and Teens.
Two Tents Program & materials
Two Tents Program & materials
DNA-V from The Thriving Adolescent © 2015 Louise Hayes and Joseph Ciarrochi / New Harbinger Publications.
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 Training Manual © 2015 Marsha M. Linehan / The Guildford Press
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.
Includes a curated Resource List of individual, group, residential and psychiatric services that The Anxiety Center at Renew refers to.
Finding new ways to interact with the world
Using Interpersonal Effectiveness skills to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals & groups being aware while setting boundaries, and saying "No" appropriately.
Creating a “Pause” between Thought & Action
Using Wise Mind and emotion regulation skills to increase positive emotions while effectively coping with anger, fear, share, sadness and decrease interpersonal chaos.
Understanding & training your child’s inner voice
Using flexible thinking, diffusion and distress tolerance skills to increase self-management and problem solving while decreasing behavioral and cognitive dysregulation.
Parenting based on what’s important to you
Using value clarification & mindful actions skills to increase self-awareness, growth mindset & responsibility while decreasing self-dysregulation and family conflict.
Adolescent Interns
Adolescent IOP Team
Gabby Ong, LPC
Jason Starry, LCPC
Devin Nickell, LPC
Maria Moylan, LCP
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