Brandon Tessers

When it comes to anxiety, coping is good. Prevention is better. Join Brandon Tessers (LCPC) for a conversation about anxiety, executive functioning and the struggles that come from being different. Brandon will share useful ways to think of anxiety, teach coping techniques, and provide frameworks that can help locate the source of the anxiety so you can prevent it altogether.

This group will provide basic education on topics of concern and help design specific parenting strategies to address the actual, specific concerns that group members bring to the sessions. You will walk away with an increased awareness and understanding of neurodiversity and executive functioning: what they are and how they impact everything you and your children are experiencing, as well as the ways in which you communicate with each other and interact with each other and the world at large. We will provide specific frameworks and actionable exercises to help you translate that increased awareness into a different way of being, interacting and communicating. Our aim is to help you and your children develop lives that go more the way you want them to go.

Our sensory organs pick up far more data than our brains can be aware of. The process that determines which data comes into our awareness and which is left out is formed over the course of our lives. We simplify by ignoring that which has never caused us problems. But often those things DO cause problems for others. Learning to pay attention to things that matter to others--even if they haven’t mattered in our own lives--is incredibly difficult and incredibly important. In order to create inclusive spaces and processes, we must be aware of what we’re unaware of.