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Welcome to Sticky Crew!Meet the Sticky Thought Crew, part of Glenbrook Practice’s illustrated resources for teens and tw...
07/11/2026

Welcome to Sticky Crew!
Meet the Sticky Thought Crew, part of Glenbrook Practice’s illustrated resources for teens and tweens. They offer an accessible way to start conversations about thoughts that seem to get stuck—and how we respond to them.

Our Instagram account explores emotions, friendships, boundaries and everyday challenges through practical, illustrated posts for young people.

Follow .skills—our Instagram account for teens and tweens—for more illustrated posts about emotions, friendships and everyday challenges.

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These resources will also be available in a dedicated teens and tweens section on the Glenbrook Practice website, launching at the beginning of January 2027.

Parenting a teenager can feel like holding two truths that refuse to sit still.You are trying to stay close enough to ma...
24/09/2026

Parenting a teenager can feel like holding two truths that refuse to sit still.
You are trying to stay close enough to matter and far enough to let them become someone. Some days that balance holds. Other days every word lands wrong, and you walk away wondering how a conversation about a phone, a mood or a closed door became the whole evening.

That intensity often has a developmental logic, not a personal one. The teenage brain is still being built. The prefrontal cortex, the part that pauses, plans, and sees consequences, isn't finished yet. What looks like defiance is frequently the brain doing the work of growing up.

On Saturday 31 October, we are holding a full-day DBT & ACT Skills Workshop for Parents at Stoep Startup in Plumstead. Cape Town
You will leave with skills you can use the same evening:
🎯A clearer picture of why teenage behaviour can look extreme
🎯DBT skills for validation that does not collapse into permissiveness, emotion regulation for your nervous system, distress tolerance when the conversation is going nowhere, and interpersonal effectiveness that keeps connection without giving everything away
🎯ACT skills that loosen guilt and self-criticism so you can parent from what actually matters to you, not from the last argument
🎯A dialectical stance: holding your teenager’s experience and your own needs at the same time
The goal is not perfect parenting. It is more skilful, more grounded, and more sustainable parenting.

Saturday 31 October · 09:00–15:00
Stoep Startup, 3 Tiverton Road, Plumstead
R1 600 per couple · R900 per individual
Refreshments, lunch and a comprehensive workbook included
Group size kept intentionally small
Reserve your place at glenbrookpractice.com
Questions: [email protected] or WhatsApp +27 74 512 2033

There are so many moments with teenagers when both things are true.You can take them seriously and still refuse to be sp...
07/09/2026

There are so many moments with teenagers when both things are true.
You can take them seriously and still refuse to be spoken to badly.
You can want to trust them and still need to see the evidence.
You can love them fiercely and still keep the limit.
That is a dialectic. Not splitting the difference. Not giving in. Two truths, held together.

Parents in our workshops keep coming back to the same five sentences:
1. Your feeling is real — and the behaviour still has a limit.
2. I take you seriously — and I will not be spoken to like that.
3. Trust is what we are working towards — and trust is rebuilt with evidence.
4. I can validate you — and I do not have to agree.
5. You can hate the limit — and the limit can still be loving.

When the conversation tightens, reach for the sentence that holds both sides.

I have spent more than twenty years walking alongside teenagers and the parents who love them. I began in a clinical set...
07/09/2026

I have spent more than twenty years walking alongside teenagers and the parents who love them. I began in a clinical setting, working as part of the clinical team in the adolescent unit at Kenilworth Clinic in Cape Town — KAYA, now Akeso Kenilworth — and since 2015 I have continued that work here at Glenbrook Practice. That work still moves me. When a parent finds a way to stay connected and stay grounded, the whole home changes.

That is why this day exists.
On Saturday 31 October I am facilitating our DBT & ACT Skills Workshop for Parents, a full working day for mothers, fathers and primary caregivers who want skills that actually help. Not theory. Not another pep talk. Practical tools you can use the same evening.

We will look at:
🎯why the teenage brain does what it does
🎯DBT skills for validation, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication
🎯ACT skills that loosen guilt, self-criticism and chronic worry, so you can parent from what truly matters
🎯the realities many families are living with right now; academic pressure, perfectionism, loneliness, parental burnout, and the new world of AI companions

The goal is not perfect parenting.
The goal is more skilful, more grounded, and more sustainable parenting.

Saturday 31 October 2026
09:00 – 15:00
Stoep Startup, 3 Tiverton Road, Plumstead
R900 per person | R1 600 per couple
Lunch and a comprehensive workbook included
Small group, so the day stays personal and practical
No prior knowledge of DBT or ACT is needed. Come as you are.
Reserve your place here:
https://glenbrookpractice.com/dbt-act-skills-for-parents/
Questions? WhatsApp +27 74 512 2033 or email [email protected]

Jonathan Mitchell
Founder | Glenbrook Practice

Parents of teenagers often find themselves walking a fine line: wanting to support their child while managing their own ...
20/08/2026

Parents of teenagers often find themselves walking a fine line: wanting to support their child while managing their own stress, reactivity and sense of helplessness. Adolescence brings intense emotions, a still-developing brain, social-media pressures and a growing drive for independence, all of which can strain even the most committed parent–teen relationship.

A one-day workshop is being offered to equip parents with practical, evidence-based skills that address both sides of this dynamic.
DBT & ACT Skills for Parents�Supporting your teenager and yourself, with skills that truly help
What you will gain

🎯DBT skills — validation, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness that help you respond skilfully rather than reactively, reduce conflict and model calm for your teenager.
🎯ACT skills — acceptance, values clarification and committed action that free you from struggling with difficult emotions and allow you to parent from what truly matters.
🎯A clearer understanding of developmental stages so your responses match what is realistic for a teenager’s brain and emotional world.
🎯Practical approaches to social media and healthy boundaries that protect both your child’s wellbeing and your own.

Saturday 24 October | 09:00 – 15:00�Lunch provided
Full details, costs and booking information: GlenbrookPractice.com
Glenbrook Practice | Growth Through Awareness

Parents: this one’s for you.We’re launching a new full-day workshop:DBT & ACT Skills for ParentsIf you’ve ever felt unsu...
14/08/2026

Parents: this one’s for you.
We’re launching a new full-day workshop:
DBT & ACT Skills for Parents
If you’ve ever felt unsure how to respond to your teenager’s intense emotions, or exhausted from trying to support them while managing your own stress, this workshop was designed with you in mind.

Across the day we’ll explore:
🎯How the adolescent brain develops and why certain behaviours often make more sense than they first appear
🎯Core DBT skills for validation, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication
🎯ACT skills to help you handle parental stress, reduce self-criticism and stay connected to your values
🎯Current challenges many families face, including academic pressure, social media, loneliness and burnout
🎯How to respond more dialectically, holding both your teenager’s experience and your own needs
You’ll leave with practical skills, a comprehensive workbook, and a clearer framework for the road ahead.

24 October | 09:00 – 15:00
Lunch provided
Full details, costs and booking information will soon be available on our website.
Glenbrook Practice
Growth Through Awareness

With more than 20 years immersed in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, from working at AKESO Clinic Kenilworth for four year...
08/08/2026

With more than 20 years immersed in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, from working at AKESO Clinic Kenilworth for four years, then opening up my own practice, seeing private clients, facilitating DBT groups and workshops, supporting private clients, training professionals, and refining DBT skills day after day, I’m proud to announce that Glenbrook Press is opening its online shop.

Very soon you’ll be able to download high-quality, thoughtfully created resources designed for real-world use by educators, psychologists, clients and mental health professionals. Much of this material has been refined over more than 15 years of practice and has never before been made publicly available in this form.

We’re beginning with a carefully curated collection of DBT materials, workbooks, practical PDFs and educational posters. In time we’ll expand into CBT resources and other evidence-based tools that support emotional regulation, resilience and growth.

Every resource is being developed with the same care and clarity that underpins everything we do at Glenbrook Practice: practical, trauma-informed, and grounded in the principle of Growth Through Awareness.

The online shop is opening soon.
Watch this space.

Jonathan Mitchell | BA (HSS) (Psych) (UNISA) | Executive Officer & Director of DBT Operations, Programmes and Publications |Glenbrook Practice & Dialectical Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd. (Reg No: 2015/308832/07)

Something exciting is heading into the STEP-UPP programme.TeenForge Cards: a practical toolkit designed to help teens na...
04/08/2026

Something exciting is heading into the STEP-UPP programme.
TeenForge Cards: a practical toolkit designed to help teens navigate the real stuff — pressure, feelings, screens, self-worth and more.

A warm welcome to every participant joining us this Wednesday. On 5 August 2026, we begin the 12-week DBT Skills Facilit...
03/08/2026

A warm welcome to every participant joining us this Wednesday. On 5 August 2026, we begin the 12-week DBT Skills Facilitator Training, a carefully held space in which you will first experience the skills as a learner, and then learn to facilitate them with authenticity, clarity and care.

This is more than a training programme. It is an invitation to deepen your own relationship with mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness so that you can guide others from a place of genuine understanding.

We are delighted you have chosen to walk this path with Glenbrook Practice.

With warm regards,
Jonathan Mitchell
Founder & Director

The room is ready.The fire is lit.The chairs are waiting in a circle.A very warm welcome to every teen joining us this e...
27/07/2026

The room is ready.
The fire is lit.
The chairs are waiting in a circle.
A very warm welcome to every teen joining us this evening for the start of DBT-STEP-UPP.

We’re looking forward to walking alongside you as you build practical skills for navigating big feelings, tough moments, and everyday life with more awareness, confidence and choice.

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