Primarily working with teens and adults, I partner with clients to address life
stressors including, but not
limited to, depression, anxiety,
other mental health disorders, unresolved emotional and abandonment issues, self - esteem / self - empowerment, grief and loss, relationship / marital / family concerns, survivorship, caregiving, abuse / trauma, homelessness, addiction and more.
There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility,
limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many
other life / environmental
stressors (poverty, grief etc.).
Other moderators of the relationship between CSA and parenting stress, such as severity and type of perpetrator and current life
stressors including partner violence, should also be explored, as the results of this review indicate
limited investigation of these aspects.