Anxiety, Depression and School Avoidance:
Breaking the Patterns of Childhood Anxiety:
What Parents, Schools, and Mental Health Providers Must Know (and Do)
Concord, NH
November 7th, 2025
Because anxiety is the most common mental health issue in both adults and children, it’s impossible to be in clinical practice, work in a school or see families in a medical practice and NOT have anxious families show up, desperate for help. The problem, however, is that common “coping strategies” that focus on controlling or minimizing symptoms do not address the larger patterns of family anxiety; instead, they often inadvertently strengthen anxiety and reinforce anxious family patterns. This full day in-person workshop will focus on HOW to get families engaged from the start with an active approach that is direct, skill-based, and works to decrease accommodations and safety behaviors. The goal? How schools and parents and clinicians can work together to foster consistency and skill-building.
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Anxiety, Depression, and Teens: Creating Plans and Building New Patterns (Because “Coping Skills” Are Not Enough), Concord, NH
December 12th, 2025
Young people continue to report high rates of loneliness, anxiety and depression. It seems our current approaches are not enough. What do teens and their parents need to know about anxiety and its common path into depression? How do we move beyond “mental health awareness”? Misinformation, self-labeling, and bad advice are everywhere, making the goal of developing emotionally and socially resilient teens increasingly difficult.
This full day workshop will focus on creating effective school and family plans that don’t “do the disorder” but instead focus on the development of skills such as problem solving, social connection, emotional management and autonomy. The goal is a thorough understanding of HOW these disorders operate, a process-based approach to interrupt the patterns, and movement away from “coping strategies” that inadvertently support avoidance. We’ll also address the common “this is different” trap that occurs when anxiety has been present through childhood and into adolescence.
