Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Reclaim Bored Teen Sessions

The hour ticks by and your teen client has said naught but 5 words. Far from hyperverbal clients, these teens are bored, scared, or just plain quiet. Sessions like this leave you feeling inadequate, confused, and frustrated. How the hell can you break through to quiet, bored teens? More importantly, how do you get them to break out?!

Join Sabrina Longley, LCSW to explore how to feel empowered when facing quiet teen sessions. Learn actionable techniques and more importantly the reasons behind the silence in the first place.
Originally recorded as part of the GEMS Neurodiversity Summit: Autistic and ADHD Teens. Get the full replay bundle below!

Objectives

  • Identify sources of boredom and quietness in teen sessions.
  • Apply regulation and confidence as the therapist in quiet teen sessions.
  • Use non-talk-based strategies to support quiet teens.
Meet the instructors

Sabrina Longley, LCSW

 Sabrina is a queer, fat, Black, multiply neurodivergent Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is most passionate about offering lived and clinical experience support to both clients and other mental health providers related to topics including racial justice, neurodivergence, fat liberation, queer liberation, teen mental health, and DBT. She works to honor her own lived experience and the lived experiences of other marginalized folks to promote ethical and just mental health care. Sabrina owns and consults, trains, and supports colleagues at Radical Insights Consulting. She also sees clients at Resilient Mind Counseling in North Carolina and co-hosts the Aces Up Your Sleeve podcast.
Patrick Jones - Course author