Teen Anxiety: Powerful Communication Strategies for Parents | @caroline-cavanagh

2 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Caroline Cavanagh. This content was uploaded by Caroline Cavanagh. This is a YouTube video titled "Teen Anxiety: Powerful Communication Strategies for Parents | @caroline-cavanagh" (uploaded 2025-10-02) featuring a presenter—likely Caroline Cavanagh—providing advice to parents on how to encourage a teen to try therapy. The excerpt offers practical phrasing tips: give the teen choices, frame therapy as learning tools or having a coach who teaches skills (not someone who will simply "fix" problems), avoid coercive language, and focus on finding a therapist the teen feels comfortable with.

So if your teen doesn't want to go to therapy for their anxiety, don't say you need help with your anxiety. Say, do you want to learn some tools that might make school a little less stressful? It's giving them choice. Don't say the therapist will fix your problems. Say, think of this like having a coach who teaches you skills. Don't say you're going whether you like it or not. Say, let's find someone you feel comfortable to talk to. So again, languaging is, is very powerful.