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An image of the book "Your Amazing Teen Brain" written by Elisa Nebolsine

Your Amazing Teen Brain:

CBT & neuroscience skills to stress less, balance emotions & strengthen your growing mind

Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW


Winner of the 2022 Mom’s Choice Awards Honoring Excellence

The last decade of research has changed what we know about the teen brain, and the research is exciting!  The teen brain is changing in profound ways: there are unique vulnerabilities that teens need to understand and opportunities that can literally increase intelligence.  

Your Amazing Teen Brain is written for teens, approved by teens (at least the ones I asked), and full of insight, information and quick "hacks" to feel better.   The book is based on science, but it is written in a fun and informative way.   

Your Amazing Teen Brain focuses on: 

An overview of the changes occurring in your brain.  Right now.  And why these changes matter.  The book explains why everything feels more intense and deeper at this moment than at any other time in your life.  It explores the role of stress and anxiety and provides CBT strategies to help cope and even thrive during adolescence.  Your Amazing Teen Brain also discusses the need for meaning for a purpose that ignites and excites you and provides tools and strategies to move towards meaning.  Finally, Your Amazing Teen Brain encourages you to find your sense of meaning and purpose and gives you tools, knowledge, and a path to move towards that change.

Your Amazing Teen Brain is an amazing book. Written in a highly engaging style, it shows just how dynamic and powerful the teen mind is.

— JUDITH S. BECK, PHD

President, Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

An image of the book "The Grit Workbook for Kids" written by Elisa Nebolsine

The Grit Workbook for Kids:

CBT Skills to Help Kids Cultivate a Growth Mindset & Build Resilience

Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW


Translated into four languages, the Grit Workbook for Kids is an ideal resource for parents, teachers, and therapists.

Written in a kid-friendly tone and grounded in CBT, The Grit Workbook for Kids offers a fun and unique approach to learning the tools, strategies, and skills that makeup grit. 

The book focuses on the following skills:

  • Build stamina

  • Keep perspective

  • Be optimistic

  • Solve problems

  • Cope with change

  • Practice mental flexibility

  • Stick up for themselves

  • Build good relationships

  • And much, much more!  

Grit is key to helping kids succeed in what they want or need to do—getting good grades, making the sports team, or just building an awesome treehouse.  By practicing the skills and activities outlined in this accessible workbook—whether on their own or with you—your child will gain powerful tools to help them thrive well into adulthood.

"The Grit Workbook for Kids is written in a conversational style that is clear, straightforward, and encouraging, but does not talk down to kids. And the wonderful illustrations help to make the book accessible to children. It's a winning combination that makes this an important new contribution to the library of self-help books for young people."

— WILLIAM STIXRUD, PhD

Clinical neuropsychologist, and coauthor of the best-selling book The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives and What Do You Say: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home. 

An image of the book "Thoughts & Feelings for Teens" a workbook written by Elisa Nebolsine

Thoughts & Feelings for Teens: A Workbook

A workbook to help you balanec emotions and take charge of your mental health

Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW


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