Fostering Healthy Relationships
Peer influences, romantic relationships and family relationships
Guiding parents to help their teens build healthy peer, romantic, and family relationships
Researched and presented by Amanda Graham MSc
It will be my privilege to guide you through the series and help you to become the parent you want to be. This Webinar will help parents feel more informed, confident, and less alone as they navigate the challenges of parenting an adolescent.
Requirements
There are no pre-requisites or required skills for this Webinar, parents are welcome to attend and listen or to actively participate with their questions.
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to help your teen build the strong, healthy relationships they need to thrive.
This Webinar explores the key influences shaping adolescents today—from friendships and peer pressure to early romantic experiences and family dynamics.
You’ll gain insight into how these relationships impact wellbeing and learn practical ways to guide your teen toward positive, respectful, and supportive connections.
Ideal for parents who want to confidently navigate relationship challenges and strengthen their family bond.
A Short Introduction from Amanda
This Webinar Includes
- Information based on up to date research and more than 30 years of family counselling experience
- Practical real-life examples discussed
- Ask questions anonymously before or during the Webinar
- Hear what other parents are experiencing
- Toolbox Tips that can help immediately
- Full recording to access any time
Description
Adolescence is a unique window for learning how relationships work. During this period, young people are not only navigating friendships, romantic feelings, and shifting family dynamics, they are also forming the relational patterns they are likely to carry into adulthood. Skills such as communication, boundary-setting, empathy, conflict repair, and self-respect are not innate; they are learned through repeated experiences within close relationships. The family environment is often the first and most influential place where these skills are practised.
An important part of supporting adolescents in their relationships is becoming aware of our own beliefs about what relationships should look like.
Many parents carry expectations shaped by their own upbringing, cultural norms, or past experiences, some of which may have been difficult or unhealthy. Without realising it, these assumptions can influence how we respond to our teenagers’ friendships, conflicts, or emotional needs.
Adolescence often brings these patterns into sharper focus, not because parents are doing something wrong, but because this stage asks for a different way of relating.
Who This Webinar is For
- For parents of adolescents seeking helpful advice when conversations and family relationships are becoming difficulty.
- For parents needing easily accessible, immediate advice and support that can give you the skills, confidence, and perspective to reconnect with your teen and feel calm and capable again.
- For parents worried they are doing something wrong and losing their teens trust.
- For parents who want to re-open communication, feel calmer/confident and create a more supportive home.
- For parents who want consistent boundaries that are kind and handle emotional talks with empathy and firmness.
- For parents wanting quick conflict-reducing steps with visible progress without big time cost.
- For parents wanting a structured roadmap, practical scripts and confidence in difficult conversations.
- For parents who want to stay connected, support independence, reduce conflict and worry.
Part of the Parenting Adolescents Series
This webinar is part of the six session Parenting Adolescents Series. Each webinar can be booked individually, or explore the full series for broader support.
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Ready to Join Me?
If this is the kind of support you have been looking for, I would be very pleased to welcome you to the live session.