Janet Edgette, Psy.D.

Janet Edgette, Psy.D. is a psychologist, author, workshop leader, and speaker from the Philadelphia area. She is nationally recognized for her contemporary and effective therapeutic approach to reaching children and teenagers who are turned off by the idea of getting counseling, or just plain tired of hearing adults tell them what they should be doing differently. She is the author of five books on psychotherapy and sport psychology, including Candor, Connection, and Enterprise in Adolescent Therapy (Norton) and Stop Negotiating With Your Teen: Strategies For Parenting Your Angry, Unhappy, Moody, or Manipulative Adolescent (Penguin/Perigee). Janet`s workshops focus on preserving the dignity of young clients while holding them more accountable for their poor choices, so that change becomes a more acceptable option. Janet also teaches how to help parents who blindly overindulge their kids or who have become intimidated by them. Clinicians, educators, parents and others in attendance learn how to maintain credibility in the eyes of these kids while having to challenge or confront, and how to avoid the pitfalls of trying too hard to motivate them for change, or of becoming too careful to not say the `wrong` thing.

Janet`s workshops are dynamic, interactive, and chocked full of colorful case examples illuminating the delicate balance between support and confrontation, forthrightness and patience, and humor and resolve needed to make a real impact upon what can be a challenging client population. Janet herself is a dynamic, experienced educator and therapist.  Her work consistently receives the highest praise.

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