ReCreate Parenting
clinical expertise + Creative tools
Therapy, groups, games & more
for teens & parents during the
"almost adulting stage"
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Has your once chatty child turned into a withdrawn teen?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."
"I felt like I was standing on broken concrete. Every exercise we did to explore my parenting helped me feel like I was pouring cement in the cracks, making my foundation that much more solid." V.B.
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.
Online Art Group for Teens
"This group has helped my daughter's anxiety immensely. Thanks Roya for offering this option for those of us that have teens that are navigating through their desire to have friends against their anxiety that holds them back."
Come for the weekly video art calls, stay for the self-confidence, socializing, and support! Teens can have their camera on or off, speak or not, and share or not. There is NO pressure to create a certain type of art in a certain type of way.
Just Imagine…
✔ Your teenager thanks you for hanging out with them.
✔ Watching as your kid turns off YouTube and starts an art project on their own.
✔ Being the person your teenager asks for help with friend drama.
✔ 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.
The 3 most popular parenting services for you AND your teen are below!
If you aren't sure where to start, you can always
contact me!
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Online Teen Art Group
Parenting Course
Parents are saying...
I am a licensed therapist with a special 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 loved being around artsy people & in the spaces that valued mess, materials, and making stuff. I desperately needed the self-expression, the emotional outlet, and the community.
I was an intense and emotional teenager who needed not one creative outlet, but hundreds. There wasn’t an art form I didn’t deep dive into - from theater to printmaking, mosaics to writing.
Turns out? I needed all of those outlets for successful "adulting."
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.
That's the basis for learning everything they need to learn for a happy, healthy, and successful adult life.
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.
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!
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.
The RECREATE Parenting approach helps teens and their parents through so many adulting difficulties:
- ADHD, time management, & executive function issues
- Adulting & worries about growing up
- Depression & Anxiety of all kinds
- Feeling not good enough & other self-confidence themes
- Fighting with siblings and parents
- Fighting about daily routines
- Assertiveness & communication
- Apathy, boredom, and trying new things
- Social anxiety, medical anxiety & more
- Relationship issues and friend drama
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
