JOYCEKRENSKY

Welcome 

 

My Practice with Adolescents, their Parents, and Schools: 

A Strength-Based Approach

 

Adolescence is a time of many changes and new challenges.  It is also an opportunity for teens to grow and thrive in unexpected ways.  With Creative Strategies for Well-Being, I offer health and self-care skills to parents and teachers for use in guiding teens through their adolescence.  I also work directly with pre-teens to post-college adults, helping them to recognize their strengths, manage stress, and navigate the world. They learn to develop solid friendships, ask for support, be street-wise, and stay safe.

 

Through my conversations and exercises with adolescents, they gain skills to help them:

 

• Stay emotionally and physically safe

• Foster resilience

• Cultivate emotional and social intelligence

• Clarify their values about difficult issues such as sexuality, addictions and cyberspace

• Experience new feelings of wellness

• Embrace their struggles with equanimity

• Find new ways to honor themselves

• Develop positive self-regard and new narratives for generating happiness

• Apply the tools of modern psychology and brain science to everyday life

 

My Practice with Adults

 

Through all the decades I’ve worked with adolescents and their families, I’ve also worked with my own generation of baby-boomers, examining our many stages of adult development. Sometimes we still see echoes of our teenage selves, feeling a new urgency to explore our old dreams. Sometimes we’re ready to enact new parts of ourselves in totally unexpected ways. 

 

Thank you for spending time on these pages.  You'll find specialized resources at the Adults, Parents, Schools, and Adolescents pages, and a list of topics for workshops and individual conversations on the Topics page. I hope that this website gives you an idea of the range of work I do.  I'd be happy to talk with you about it.

 

Please contact me and I’ll get in touch with you as soon as I can.