If you are ready to CONTROL your test anxiety, you need to try these 5 therapist-approved strategies to overcome and beat your exam anxiety. Mallory Grimste, LCSW is a mental health therapist with a counseling practice serving teens physically located in CT and NY

Trouble focusing?? Try this 3 minute guided mediation for focus #WithMe Mallory Grimste, LCSW. It's no secret that practicing mindfulness can improve your ability to focus. This can make it easier to get motivated to do your homework or study. This is a great meditation to use as you get ready for AP and Finals exam season, too.

If you're anything like me, when your desk is cluttered and disorganized, you also have a difficult time staying focused and completing your assignments. As a mental health therapist for teens, Mallory Grimste, LCSW sees this struggle and its impact over and over again. As inspiration, and hopefully motivation, I thought rather than talk about how to declutter your desk, I'd invite you to join me as I declutter my desk so you can stop procrastinating and do your homework fast!!

Kelsey Togerson Dunn, LCSW literally wrote the book on what to do When Anxiety Makes You Angry! They graciously allowed me the opportunity to interview them about questions people like you had about these concepts and the skills she recommends in her new book. Watch the full interview on Mallory Grimste’s YouTube channel.

The DEAR MAN strategy is communication GOLD if you struggle to ask for what you want. DEAR MAN is a communication strategy that is a part of DBT's Interpersonal Effectiveness module. Dialectical Behavior Therapy recommends you use the DEAR MAN strategy when you want to get what you want more effectively. In this compilation mix, Mallory Grimste, LCSW explains how to ask for help using the DEAR MAN strategy then shares 3 different examples of how you can use this strategy in real-life.

When you are legally or financially reliant on your parent's permission, it can be difficult to know how to ask your parents for therapy. Using the communication strategy DEAR MAN can help you ask for therapy more effectively so you get help when you're a teenager.

Mental Health struggles can often spill over into school struggles, so it's super important to know how to ask your teacher for help. In this video post, you'll learn how to use the Interpersonal Effectiveness strategy called DEAR MAN to ask your teacher for help.

What is DEAR MAN? It's a strategy that comes from Dialectical Behavior Therapy used to effectively ask for what you want from others.

The year is 2022 and you have spent the last three years in a worldwide pandemic and you are ready to ask your crush out for a date. It makes total sense if you're feeling nervous. It can feel wildly uncomfortable to think about asking your crush on a date but if you want a date in 2022, someone's gotta make a move. That's why in this video post, you’ll learn how to use a strategy from psychology called DEAR MAN to ask your crush on a date.

Knowing how to ask for help when you're a teenager is a highly valuable life skill. You don’t have to wait until you’re older to ask for help. You can learn how to ask for help right now! This strategy from DBT called DEAR MAN can help you effectively ask for what you want. Video post from Mallory Grimste, LCSW.

Want to CONTROL your anger?? Mallory Grimste, LCSW shares 5 tips for teens that are therapist approved to help manage your anger. (Counseling for people physically located in CT + NY).