Navigating Anxiety for Children and Teenagers

Most people would admit to having felt some level of anxiety, but what is anxiety? Where does it come from? Anxiety is a healthy and normal emotion, and it is important to understand the role of anxiety in our lives.   

In this workshop, led by mental health counselors from the CHILL Counseling Program, you will learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of anxiety, and how this can impact our ability to function in school, work and in relationships. Additionally, you will explore what happens in our brains when we are anxious.   

You will learn some hands on and practical ways to help regulate anxiety, whether it be for yourself or your struggling child or teenager. This workshop will leave you with more tools in your toolbox to help your anxious loved one or even yourself by means of understanding what anxiety is and giving practical strategies to help regulate.  

This program is presented by OCPS Chill Counselors and is hosted by the Winter Park Health Foundation.         

About the Presenter:   

The CHILL (Community Help & Intervention in Life’s Lessons) program in Orange County Public Schools was founded in 1998 by the Winter Park Health Foundation in partnership with the 12 Orange County Public School serving Winter Park, Maitland and Eatonville. CHILL provides free, confidential, in-school counseling to students and their families. It is part of a collection of school-based health and wellness services supported by WPHF called the Coordinated Youth Initiative (CYI). Other services include nurses, nurse practitioners in school-based health centers, and healthy school teams. 

Host or Publisher Center for Health & Wellbeing