The story

Our signature Connected Parents Method™ helps families move from conflict and chaos to calm an connection. This approach is based on more than 30 years of research and incorporates the most effective parenting techniques from various therapeutic modalities such as CBT, DBT, ACT, Attachment Theory and Behavior Theory.

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The method

The method was developed by Dr. Maribel Gonzalez, after years of working with parents of struggling teens that were feeling frustrated, guilty, hopeless and giving up. Our approach considers not only your teen’s needs, but also incorporates the parent’s experience in order to strengthen their abilities so they can feel empowered to effectively help your struggling teen while having peace at home.

  • This internal system is essential in determining how to respond to your teen’s behavior. It works as an inner compass to direct your actions. We’ll take a look at your “why?” and work with you to clearly identify what your role is as a parent of a struggling teen and the kind of parent you want to be.

  • This system is also essential for acting effectively and in a way that facilitates our teens accepting our influence. As we review your emotional strength, we’ll teach you tricks that help you become emotionally stronger and more resilient. By identifying what emotions are getting in the way for you and learning how to manage them you’ll have more energy to parent effectively.

  • This system is essential in moving us towards healthy actions and creation of positive emotions. As we review your mindset system, we’ll help you identify and understand what thoughts and beliefs are unhelpful and practice ways to manage them so they don’t get in the way of you supporting your teen.

  • Analyzing this system is essential if you want to effectively connect with your teen and provide them with the support they need to feel and be better. As we review your current relationship with your teen and go over tried and true strategies that will help you rebuild your distant relationship, foster independence and improve the chances of your teen accepting your influence.

  • This system is essential to connect with your teen in ways that makes them feel understood and seen. As we review your communication style, we’ll help you learn new and effective ways of communicating with your teen as well as powerful techniques that will increase your teen’s willingness to change.

  • This system is essential to fulfill our role as guides of our teens. Control is not the best way or the only way to change behavior. As we review how you currently solve problems, we’ll teach you new ways to manage situations so you can identify how to effectively address problematic behavior and acquire the tools that lead to change.

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a different approach to parenting teen mental wellness that considers both the parent’s and the teen’s needs and abilities to create a healthy connected relationship.