Stressed Teens

Gina M. Biegel, LMFT, is a California-based psychotherapist, researcher, speaker, and author 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 since 2004. 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.

She is an expert and pioneer of bringing mindfulness-based approaches to youth. She is the author of the The Trauma & Adversity Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness-Based Skills to Overcome and Recover from Prolonged Toxic Stress, Take in the Good: Skills for Staying Positive and Living Your Best Life, The Stress Reduction Card Deck for Teens: 52 Essential Mindfulness Skills,The Self-harm Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help Teens Overcome Cutting and Self-harming Behaviors, Thoughts, and Feelings;Be Mindful & Stress Less: 50 Ways to Deal with Your (Crazy) Life;Mindfulness for Student Athletes: A Workbook to Help Teens Reduce Stress and Enhance Performance;The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress (first and second edition); and Be Mindful: A Card Deck for Teens.