Susan Stiffelman

Parenting Without Power Struggles: Improving Communication With Your Teen with Susan Stiffelman, MFT

Lick-Wilmerding High School, 755 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco

October 28, 2019, 7:30-9:00 pm

Learn how we can parent our teens with less drama and more joy!

How can we parent teens so they feel more secure and are more receptive to our guidance? Susan will discuss how to strengthen the connection with your teen to reduce conflicts and behavior problems, and how to dive deeper into understanding why teens do what they do! Susan will also share tips and strategies to improve cooperation between parents and teens and ways we can be kinder to ourselves as parents.

Susan Stiffelman is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist, an educational therapist and a highly lauded speaker. She is the author of Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected, and Parenting With Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids (an Eckhart Tolle Edition). Susan offers online events for parents around the world on topics like Raising Tweens and Teens, Parenting in the Digital Age, and Raising Siblings and also hosts a monthly support group with Wendy Behary on Co-Parenting with a Narcissist. Susan has offered weekly advice as the Huffington Post’s weekly “parent coach” advice columnist and the Ask the Therapist columnist for Grandparents.com. Her work has been featured on “The Today Show,” publications like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and countless print and radio interviews.