Today our subject is ‘You don't know what you don't know – A Therapist’s Perspective.’ Our guest is Andrew Larke. Andrew is an LICSW who has worked with teens and young adults since 2005. He is an experiential therapist working with clients in talk-based and action-based therapy. He was the regional director of a large therapeutic mentoring program for more than a decade and has been in private practice as a community-based therapist since 2019.
Winter break is here. While many of us got a taste of family reunion during Thanksgiving, the winter break can be a bigger readjustment. Students are making major developmental leaps of maturity; they are not the person they were when they first set foot in college. Their relationship to themselves has changed, their relationship to their parents has definitely changed.
We discuss what we don’t know we don’t know about the first winter break home from college. How does a student maintain their new-found independence and how do parents support that growth during the natural process of separation and individuation?
By proactively communicating about the new responsibilities, they are embracing on campus, students have the opportunity to exercise some of their new-found maturity.
Self-advocacy, intentionality, expectation management, and good communication can ease the transition to winter break and back to school again.