Structured Skills Groups for Teens and Parents

If emotions run high in your home, these time limited, skills based groups teach practical tools for managing big emotions, increasing resilience, improving communication and overall steadiness.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Your teen's emotions escalate quickly, and it feels like everything turns into a struggle.

  • You try to stay calm, but you either end up walking on eggshells or reacting in ways you regret.

  • You talk about coping skills, but in the moment no one seems to access them.

This is where TherapyWise steps in...

Does this sound familiar?

  • Your teen's emotions escalate quickly, and it feels like everything turns into a struggle.

  • You try to stay calm, but you either end up walking on eggshells or reacting in ways you regret.

  • You talk about coping skills, but in the moment no one can seems to access them.

This is where TherapyWise steps in...

What makes TherapyWise different?

Structured 8 week skills based groups

Separate groups for teens and parents

skills for emotional balance, resilience and communication

Designed for outpatient level of care

Screening required to ensure good fit

Practical tools to use in real time not just conversation

What makes TherapyWise different?

Strucutred 8 week skills based groups

Separate groups for teens and parents

skills for emotional

balance, resilience and communication

Designed for outpatient level of care

Screening required to

ensure good fit

Practical tools to use

in real time not just conversation

Hi, I'm Kristy...

I'm a licensed mental health counselor with more than a decade of experience working with teens, young adults, and families navigating emotional intensity, high conflict, and complex mental health challenges.

My clinical background includes work in residential programs, family reunification settings, and fully adherent DBT practices treating high acuity adolescents with complex mood disorders, self destructive and impulsive behaviors, and severe emotional dysregulation. That training shaped the structure and depth behind the work I do today.

I specialize in skills based, DBT informed approaches that focus on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, communication, and steady limit setting. My work is practical, structured, and grounded in real world application.

And as a mom myself, I understand both sides of this work. I know what it feels like to want a calmer home, clearer boundaries, and a path forward that actually feels doable. TherapyWise was built to bring clinical expertise and real life perspective together in one place.

My Mission

To help parents and teens feel seen, supported, and empowered, without judgment, pressure, or unrealistic expectations.

At TherapyWise, I incorporate DBT, mindfulness, and practical skill-building into warm, honest conversations that help you:

Understand emotional sensitivity

Stay grounded during conflict

Reduce reactive cycles

Strengthen communication

Build emotional awareness

Set clearer boundaries

Navigate big feelings with confidence

Foster connection with your teen

Respond with intention instead of impulse

Enrollment Now Open!

Skills groups are available virtually nationwide.

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TherapyWise skills groups are educational and skills based and do not constitute mental health treatment or therapy. Individual therapy services are provided by Kristy Kolev, LMHC, licensed in Florida.