What Your Teen is Trying to Tell You

Stella O'Malley

May 2023 · Bolinda · Narrated by Deirdre O'Connell

About this audiobook

Leading psychotherapist Stella O’Malley has walked many miles on ‘Planet Teen’. She understands difficult teenagers – she was one herself, and as a psychotherapist she has spent many hours working alongside unhappy adolescents. Stella takes parents inside the teenage brain and provides practical advice for each of the key milestones teenagers need to tackle during adolescence to become happy, healthy adults. You will learn how to navigate many issues, including anxiety, obsession with technology, body confidence and the sexual self. Rather than always looking to ‘fix’ the situation, you will instead be empowered to know when and how to intervene and when to allow your teen to work it out for themselves. Ultimately, you will understand your teen better and learn to rekindle the joy in your relationship.

About the author

Stella O'Malley is a psychotherapist, writer, best-selling author, public speaker and a parent with many years’ experience working as a mental health professional. Born in Dublin, Stella now calls Birr, Co. Offaly home where she lives with her husband and two children and runs her private practice. Much of Stella's counselling and teaching work is with parents and young people which culminated in the publication of her two bestselling books 'Cotton Wool Kids' by Mercier Press in 2015 and 'Bully-Proof Kids' by Gill Books in August 2017. Forging a career in the Irish media, Stella writes extensively about mental health issues for newspapers such as the Irish Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Independent, Irish Examiner, Evening Herald, Daily Mail, Irish Tatler, Pregnancy and Parenting magazine and many other media outlets. She’s also a regular contributor to the Irish Independent. Stella frequently appears on national and local media such as RTE Radio 1, RTE television, TV3 Newstalk, Today FM and BBC Northern Ireland to discuss a broad range of topics such as mental well-being, mindfulness, conflict resolution in the workplace, communication skills, parenting and childhood issues in Ireland today. Fast becoming one of the leading voices on what’s influencing children’s behaviour in Ireland today, Stella gives public talks and lectures on a range of topics for different organisations, nationwide such as ETB, VTOS, the Dept. of Education, Merrill Lynch, the Dept. of Finance and Grow. She lectures in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and Mindfulness for Laois Offaly ETB as well as presenting different talks in libraries and schools around the country on a variety of issues.

Deirdre is an Irish narrator and voice actor. She is highly skilled and has a long list of credits across a broad range of genres, including Irish classics such as James Joyce’s Dubliners to modern gritty Northern Irish crime. She trained at the Manchester MET School of Acting and resides in the UK, where she finds herself perfectly placed to be the brand voice of the UK pharmacy Boots, in her native Ireland.