Lori leads a team of parent coaches and young adult mentors in Wonder’s Colorado region and took the time to share her thoughts and perspectives with me.
You’ll hear from Lori:
+ how her experience as both a sheriff deputy and a middle-school resource officer helped prepare her for a career as a counselor
+ the similarities she sees in kids when they’re struggling with substance use and some of what she believes are the root causes for their struggle
+ the impact COVID-19 has had on teens and young adults who are currently in treatment
+ why it’s so important for parents to give their kids “a little bit of rope” in these days of constant connection
+ what we’d hear in a mentoring session if we were a fly on the wall
+ how her team deals with kids who are only participating in mentoring because their parents forced them to the vital role of vulnerability in the process of parenting an adolescent or young adult child with substance use disorder
+ why it’s important for parents to find the objective middle ground between catastrophizing and putting your head in the sand
+ why she sits a little longer when things get really tough with a kid and everyone else has left the room and so much more!
Lori leads a team of parent coaches and young adult mentors in Wonder’s Colorado region and took the time to share her thoughts and perspectives with me.
You’ll hear from Lori:
+ how her experience as both a sheriff deputy and a middle-school resource officer helped prepare her for a career as a counselor
+ the similarities she sees in kids when they’re struggling with substance use and some of what she believes are the root causes for their struggle
+ the impact COVID-19 has had on teens and young adults who are currently in treatment
+ why it’s so important for parents to give their kids “a little bit of rope” in these days of constant connection
+ what we’d hear in a mentoring session if we were a fly on the wall
+ how her team deals with kids who are only participating in mentoring because their parents forced them to the vital role of vulnerability in the process of parenting an adolescent or young adult child with substance use disorder
+ why it’s important for parents to find the objective middle ground between catastrophizing and putting your head in the sand
+ why she sits a little longer when things get really tough with a kid and everyone else has left the room and so much more!
