What teens need most from their parents.

Tonja Vallin
4 min readJun 30, 2021

hint: it’s not what you think

I didn’t set out to be a teen therapist, after all I’m a middle aged divorced woman who never got around to starting a family of her own. But one by one, teens started trickling into my office. They were brought in by concerned mom’s and on occasion dad’s as well because…their teenager just seemed so depressed.

@elliot_drew

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Tonja Vallin

Tonja Vallin is a marriage and family therapist intern in Nevada. She has her own private practice specializing in adults and kids with trauma.