Fostering Teen Mental Health: Empowerteen and “Staying Connected with your Teen”, with Dr. Paula Pilcher and Yshai Boussi, LPC
It’s a teen (and tween) double-header today with Dr. Paula Pilcher, Naturopathic Physician at 11-22 Integrative Medicine and Founder of Empowerteen, and Yshai Boussi, author of Staying Connected with your Teen of Portland Family Counseling joining us. We get into some of the biological drivers of teen behavior, preventive health activities to help tween and teen adolescents to connect with peers and parents, and what teens really need to remain emotionally and physically regulated. Spoiler alert… their biology really is different from that of kids and adults. While discussing Dr. Paula’s Empowerteen program and Yshai Boussi’s new book, we venture into the poly-vagal theory, coping mechanisms, emotional freedom tapping techniques, values identification, relationship boundaries, empathy development, common nutritional deficiencies, and the melatonin delays that keep teens sleeping long into the morning. Welcome Dr. Paula and Yshai!
Yshai Boussi, LPC
Yshai Boussi has been a licensed professional counselor who has helped teens, young adults, and families for more than twenty years. He runs a private practice with his wife Mariah, in Portland, OR, called Portland Family Counseling. Yshai provides workshops for parents, clinicians, educators, companies and organizations, and teens themselves on stress and technology use. He writes a parenting blog and has a new book out called “Staying Connected with Your Teen”.
Dr. Paula Pilcher
Empowerteen.org and 11-22med.com
Dr. Paula Pilcher is a Naturopathic Physician specializing in integrative mental health for ages 11-22. At her private practice, 11-22 Integrative Medicine in Beaverton Oregon she works directly with pre-teens, teens, and young adult patients individually to help them holistically navigate the bridge from childhood to adulthood, and balance their mental-physical-social-emotional health. In 2013- with Dr. Paula's background as a High School teacher, Teen Group Home Counselor, Licensed Bodywork Therapist, Certified Fitness Instructor and Licensed Physician- she founded and developed the Empowerteen program as a preventive health means for adolescents to connect with their peers in a group setting and be empowered to develop stress management, emotional resilience, coping, and other life skills, while learning to nurture themselves into healthy happy adults in a fun supportive atmosphere.
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