On episode 192, Alexis Avila speaks to Gina Biegel a psychotherapist, researcher, speaker, and author in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in mindfulness-based work with adolescents. She is founder of Stressed Teens, which has been offering mindfulness-based stress reduction for teens (MBSR-T) to adolescents, families, schools, professionals, and the community for over a decade. She created MBSR-T to help teens in a large HMO’s outpatient department of child and adolescent psychiatry whose physical and psychological symptoms were not responding satisfactorily to a multitude of other evidence-based practices. An expert and pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based approaches to youth, she is the author of Be Mindful & Stress Less. Gina provides worldwide multi-day trainings and intensive ten-week online trainings; and works with teens and families individually and in groups. Her work has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, and in Tricycle.
For another related podcast, check out episode 128 with Tammy Motola on How Not to Let the Bullies Win
On today’s episode, Gina talks about how she uses mindfulness to help teens reduce their stress and live better lives.
What was your biggest takeaway from this podcast about how to help teens reduce stress? Do you have any questions for Gina Biegel and Alexis Avila?
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