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Smart but Stuck: Parenting Tips for Navigating Anxiety and Executive Function Challenges

When

Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 7:00-8:00pm ET

Presenter

Debbie Rosen, Founder of The Study Pro with Rebecca Berman, LCSW, MLSP, CEDS-C, from Anxiety Institute

Where

Online via Zoom

Cost

Free

Led by Debbie Rosen, Founder and Co-Owner of The Study Pro and Rebecca Berman, LCSW, MLSP, CEDS-C, Clinical Director at Anxiety Institute, this webinar is designed to equip parents with practical tools and essential knowledge to support smart children struggling with executive function difficulties complicated by anxiety.

This session provides actionable advice for helping your child overcome the “stuck” feeling when faced with assignments, time management, and organizational demands, along with an in-depth exploration of how anxiety impacts executive function skills. Learn to recognize when anxiety is interfering with your child’s performance, address the challenges of task avoidance, and foster resilience through targeted supportive strategies.

Discover how to create structured environments that reduce anxiety while building executive function skills, effective communication approaches that validate struggles without reinforcing avoidance, and advocacy techniques for educational settings. Gain insights to empower your family’s journey from frustration to confidence and success.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the interconnection between anxiety and executive function difficulties, and distinguish anxiety-based behaviors from typical executive function challenges.
  • Apply specific parenting strategies that address both anxiety management and executive function development, including environmental modifications and communication techniques.
  • Develop a personalized action plan incorporating anxiety-reduction approaches alongside executive function supports to help your child build resilience, confidence, and academic success.

Debbie Rosen

Founder of The Study Pro

The StudyPro represents a “2nd calling” for Debbie who spent the last 30 years balancing her high-paced career in technology and raising her two children. As a mother of a child with ADHD, she has worked tirelessly to navigate the challenges of raising a son who learns differently. After experiencing the struggles for students with “under-developed” executive functioning skills and seeing the positive effects of teaching explicit executive function strategies to her son, her personal passion became a professional one. Debbie’s wide-ranging management experience coupled with her desire to build a community of families with shared experiences, has guided our efforts in bringing together parents, schools and professionals to share and exchange strategies that help make raising our students just a little bit easier.

Co-Hosted By

Questions regarding this workshops?

Birgitta Johnson

Email: bjohnson@anxietyinstitute.com
Phone: (612) 280-4503