ReCreate Parenting
clinical expertise + Creative tools
Therapy, groups, games & more
for teens & parents during the
"almost adulting stage"
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Helping Teens with Launch Anxiety webinar
Is your teen's transition to adulthood causing friction?
Has your once chatty child turned into a withdrawn teen?
Has the kid who used to say, “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy” fifteen times an hour begun to push you away when you try to help?
You’re not alone.
This is the scary “almost adulting stage,”
a time when parent-child connection seems to vanish, communication takes a nosedive, and teens and their parents are steeped in anxiety about the future.
Don't let the “almost adulting stage” derail your relationship with your teen.
Helping Your Teens Through Launch Anxiety
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"Roya's way of exploring the ways to better understand and connect with our teenagers were incredibly helpful."
The RECREATE Parenting approach helps teens and their parents work through the biggest parenting questions, like:
- How do I have a better relationship with my teenager?
- How do I help prepare my teen for living on their own?
- How do I help build my teenager's self-confidence?
- How do I know when to give advice or when to let them figure it out on their own?
- How do I get my teen to try new things?
- What can I do to help my socially anxious teen?
- When do I let them make their own decisions about money?
- What do I do if my teenager seems stuck or paralyzed?
- How do I help when my teenager is neurodivergent?
- What do I do when my teen won't talk to me?
- What do I do if my teen has stopped doing activities they used to love?
- How do I help my teen through their first heartbreak?
- How do I help my teenager develop a better work ethic?
- How do I make sure they aren't ruining their future?
To help you get the answer to those questions and more,
here are the 3 most popular parenting services for you AND your teen:
If you aren't sure where to start, you can always
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Online Teen Art Group
Parenting Course
"Roya is a breath of fresh air on this heavy topic.
So much popular advice is to limit and punish teens, but Roya embraces teens for the incredible people they are and talks about how to encourage and support them as they grow into adults." Melissa
My focus is on helping you have a better connection with your teens-
because nothing matters more than that during this crucial, often difficult, transition.
Through my therapy sessions, parenting courses, and membership groups you'll learn to:
- Help your teen have more confidence while building your own
- Develop effective ways to communicate with each other
- Cut down on struggle so you get to enjoy each other!
Online Art Group for Teens
“This group is a lot of fun. It’s always very chill and welcoming. It’s a weekly reason to get my creative brain working, try out new ideas, analyze my art in a way that I don’t usually do, and connect with other artists my age.” Group member, 16 yo
The Online Art Group for Teens is a zero-pressure group with two weekly sessions to choose from for $97.95 per month. Teens can participate or not based on their comfort level. All art is process-based for self-expression, plus there is an ongoing discord server for ongoing socialization, support, and sharing!
Parents are saying...
Therapy with a creative twist:
I'm also an expert in recreation and leisure!
I'm Roya Dedeaux
(rhymes with play-dough)
Can I tell you something? Even now, after decades as a licensed therapist, author, and university professor, I still resonate with my 17-year-old self.
I was an intense and emotional teenager who hyper-focused on ceramics, collage, poetry, printmaking... There wasn’t an art form I didn’t deep dive into, to the exclusion of just about everything else. It would have been very easy as my parents to look at my "obsessions" and worry that my lack of balance would prevent me from being a successful adult. However...
Turns out? Leaning into your kid's interests is the key to helping them prepare to be happy and healthy adults.
Through my degree in Recreation & Leisure Studies and my Master's in Counseling I focused on studying the impact of creativity, playfulness, and free time on our mental health. I was able to conduct research and put academic language to my deep understanding that teenagers are better prepared for adulthood when their interests are supported.
My RECREATE Parenting approach combines clinical expertise with creative fun, helping you rediscover connection and rebuild communication with your teen. I understand the developmental hurdles teens face and the challenges parents encounter in navigating this new dynamic.
Enroll in the Connect with Courage Parenting Course
Break through emotional & logistical parenting barriers
"Incredibly helpful and useful guidance" --JW
10 weeks of deep-diving & exploration for better connection to your teenagers and young adult children.
Just Imagine…
✔ Your teenager thanks you for hanging out with them.
✔ Watching as your teen overcomes a big challenge.
✔ Being the person your teenager asks for help with friend drama.
✔Getting to witness your teen take the next steps to accomplish their goals.
✔ Driving with your teen chatting happily next to you sharing their latest joy.
✔ Hearing from another mom how interesting and knowledgeable your kid is.
✔ The irritation and anxiety over how they spend their time disappearing completely.
✔ Feeling secure and confident that they are prepared for whatever the future brings.
YES this is absolutely possible for you.
Join Roya in the free RECREATE Parenting Community!
Home of the Play More Challenges!
"Roya Dedeaux your play challenge definitely brought some extra fun and creativity into our weeks. Very much appreciated! 🥰" --Ariel
Creative challenges, playful prompts, games, and prizes!
More Ways to Connect
"Connect with Courage is an absolute marvel of a book.
It is energizing, fascinating, brilliant, and healing all at once. The practical insights in this book will resonate with every parent who wants to create a closer-knit family and to cultivate more curiosity, creativity and courage not just in their children,
but in their own lives as well."
Jane McGonigal, PhD, bestselling author of SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully
