Mental Health Services for Teenagers & Young Adults
This collection of articles provides advice and focuses on issues involving teenage and young adult mental health services at Malaty Therapy in Houston Texas. Contact us at 713 628-3966 for an appointment. Just one session can help!
What to do When Your Child Wants to Talk to a Therapist? Here’s 3 Important Issues To Understand. Has your child asked to talk to a therapist? When something is troubling your child, and they want to talk – you listen. But what if they’ve asked you to see a therapist? Now what? If your…
Parents and teens can work together to prepare for the school year & covid- caused anxiety Tammer Malaty, therapist and owner of Houston’s Malaty Therapy, believes many parents just don’t understand what their teenage students have been going through while trying to learn during the COVID–19 pandemic. Malaty believes parents look at grades, attendance and…
How to Deal with School Stress Many students want to know how to deal with school stress. High school and college students are faced with new schedules, routines, teachers, friends, classmates, plus new material to learn. Even more, it feels like anxiety and stress are waiting to meet you around every corner. As a student,…
Compulsive disorders involve uncontrollable behaviors that lead to habitual habits for teens and young adults. There are many compulsive disorders parents need to be aware of more than ever during COVID-19 restrictions. It’s important to both recognize and help your loved ones should they be experiencing uncontrollable self destructive behavior. If they are in recovery…
This quarantine is rough, y’all. I know you already know that. It’s been a little over a month that I have been away from my career in family therapy and chosen to stay inside my home, isolated with just my dogs and my husband in Houston. (Let it be known, my husband is still alive.)…
I came across this post and it perfectly summed up an idea I have had about parenting in a way I could never quite put my finger on. Frankly, this quote makes me feel super powerless as a parent…but let’s explore it some more. Think about it, thousands of years ago it made perfect sense…
When parents lack the respect of their teen it is palpable. Parent’s experience frustration, anger, powerlessness, feeling out of control, offended, scared, and resentful towards their teen. Respect is an interesting concept. It is not quite a feeling, but more of an idea. You know when you have it and you definitely know when you…
I hope my daughter knows struggle. I hope she knows what defeat feels like. I hope that she experiences striving for something she wants. This may sound harsh or contrary to what many parents hope for their children, but if my daughter does not experience difficulty and failure at something, then she may never know…
I received such a nice call from a parent this morning calling me “The Teen Whisperer” and this is not the first time I’ve been given this honorable title! So firstly, I would like to say thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart for those kind words. Secondly, I want to…
This is a little piece of advice a dear friend gave me when I first started on my journey in recovery. She noticed that I would begin to “should” all over myself, “I should have a better job” “I should be living on my own” “I should know better” “ I should be making more…
