Dr. Janet Sasson Edgette

Dr. Janet Sasson Edgette is a child & adolescent psychologist with over 35 years experience providing evaluation, counseling, and coaching services to children, pre-teens, teenagers, young adults, parents, and clinical training services to mental health professionals. Nationally renowned for having developed an approach to doing therapy with teenagers that avoids the power struggles and going-nowhere conversations that plague so many therapist ~ teen encounters. Therapists frequently ask me how they can get their teen clients to "open up" to them, and I tell them they're asking the wrong question. A better one is, "How can I show up in a more compelling and relevant way so that this kid actually *wants* to talk with me? Dr. Edgette's practice focuses on individual therapy, parent consultation, training for professionals, and public speaking services with attention placed on improving parent-teen relationships, practical adolescent guidance, and improving therapist success with teen clients. She is also the author of seven books including Stop Negotiating with Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody or Depressed Adolescent, and Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents: Helping Teens in Therapy Thrive in an Ultra-Competitive and Screen-Saturated World.