Category: Counseling Services

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Building Teen Resilience: How to Bounce Back from Setbacks

Life as a teenager is often filled with hurdles, challenges, and setbacks. Learning to bounce back from these difficult circumstances is essential to living a healthy and fulfilling life, and building teen resilience is the path to taking your challenges in stride. Resilience training for teens can teach you how to take a different perspective, see

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The Importance of Open Communication with Parents

Life as a teenager isn’t always easy. Between the pressure of schoolwork, obligations at home, navigating social challenges, and developing your sense of identity in the world, stress during adolescence can quickly feel like it’s too much to bear. Keeping open communication with parents is one of the best tools you can use to help manage

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Goal Setting for Teens: Building a Fulfilling and Successful Life

Goal setting for teens is essential for achieving success in life. Remember, it’s a process – it simply doesn’t happen all at once. But by setting meaningful goals in your teenage years, you can start the process of building what you want to achieve, creating the life you want to live, and watching your ambitions come

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The Power of Positive Friendships: Building Healthy Relationships

The friends you have in your adolescence play a pivotal role in developing your own identity. Building healthy relationships is an important component of maintaining your mental health and setting yourself up for success in the future. Project Eden has specialized outpatient and prevention services for teens. See the programs available at Project Eden at Horizon.

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Finding Your Passion: Healthy Activities and Interests for Teens

Finding a passion and purpose is one of the best ways to resist teenage drug and alcohol use. Exploring healthy activities and personal interests can help inspire teens to prioritize the things that matter most in life, build a sense of independence, and resist the influences that promote substance use. Project Eden helps prevent substance use

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Building Strong Communication Skills: Saying No When It Matters

Mastering effective communication skills can help you resist peer pressure, make healthier decisions, and build your emotional intelligence. But learning to communicate effectively and say no is about more than just avoiding potential dangers and can help you in nearly every aspect of your life. Saying no when it matters can be the difference between trying

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Boosting your Teen's confidence, teens smiling with a positive self image.

Boosting Your Teen’s Confidence: Strategies for a Positive Self-Image

Boosting your teen’s confidence can be a challenge, especially during adolescence when teens struggle with challenges such as a negative self-image or lack of a strong self-concept. Building a stable sense of self is an important developmental milestone, and the sooner your teen can create a positive self-image the better their chances of resisting peer pressure

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Warning Signs of Substance Use in Teens and Young Adults

Substance misuse in young adults and teenagers can quickly lead to an escalating set of behavioral and mental health problems. Learning warning signs of substance use in teens, especially to prevent addiction and substance use disorder signs early, can save your adolescent from progressing on a path that leads nowhere. Feeling overwhelmed? Talk it out with

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The Bystander Effect: How to Help Someone Being Peer Pressured

Peer pressure is a common challenge for teenagers, often leading to risky behaviors and negatively impacting their mental and emotional well-being. Understanding the bystander effect and knowing how to help someone being peer-pressured is crucial. Feeling overwhelmed? Talk it out with someone who gets it. Text 510-256-9420 and we’ll get back to you between Mon-Fri, 9

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Role-Playing Scenarios: How to Say No When You Feel Pressured

Learning how to say “no” is a crucial skill for teenagers, especially when facing peer pressure to engage in harmful behaviors like vaping, smoking, drinking, and having unprotected sex. Developing this skill not only helps maintain their health but also builds confidence and self-respect. Read on for tips on using role-playing to set boundaries that any

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