Because the relationship is everything.
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Teen
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Family should be our greatest source
of love, support, and joy.
My mission is improving family relationships.
I'm particularly passionate about improving parent/teen relationships because I believe...
The most important thing you can do for your teen's mental health,
success, and happiness, is improve your relationship with them.
When relationships get complicated. Resentments build. Communication breaks down. Most people assume the only path forward is months, even years, of therapy.
It doesn't have to be.
For over 20 years, I've researched and taught resilience, in partnership with Duke Clinical Research Institute, with Navy SEALs, miltary and first responder families, and hospitals across the country, and the findings are consistent: real, lasting change doesn't require years of therapy. It requires the right skills, applied well.
The Resets
The purest expression of this approach
My Resets are fast, structured and built to create real change in weeks, not years.
Therapy & Coaching
For situations that need more depth, ongoing support, or individual clinical care
Still grounded in the same skills-based, efficient approach
The Research
20+ years of research and development
My approach isn't just experience-based, it's been rigorously studied. The resilience curriculum I developed has been validated in four studies, including two randomized controlled trials, with researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-reviewed journals, and shown to promote clinically significant improvement in anxiety, depression, distress, self-efficacy, and PTSD.
This same approach has been used by organizations that don't have room for anything that doesn't work: Navy SEALs, the LAPD, the National Guard, the Veterans Administration, and more than 20 hospitals nationwide, including Duke Health and the NIH. It's been funded by organizations including the National Cancer Institute, Pfizer, Genentech, Susan G. Komen, Livestrong, and the Navy SEAL Family Foundation, and featured in the PBS documentary What Love Is: The Duke/Pathfinders 50.
I've also written three books on resilience and family connection, including It Takes Two Minutes: To Shift Your Mindset and Build Resilience and Resilient Family Capital: The 15 Strategies Every Family of Wealth Needs.
In addition, I bring this same skills-based approach into schools and youth organizations through two programs: Mindset Moments and the Ready & Resilient Youth Initiative.
About Me
I didn't mean to become a resilience expert. It was an unexpected opportunity I stumbled on in my career path. But then life kept showing me how much I actually needed it, in my own marriage, family, and career. And it became obvious that everyone needs it.
At the same time, I realized that resilience and relationships aren't two separate things. One teaches you the other, if you stay in it long enough. That realization became the foundation for everything I've built since, twenty years of research, three books, and a practice built entirely around helping families find their way back to each other.
Resilience + Relationships
You don't build resilience alone. You build it together.
© 2026 Kristin MacDermott Method, Inc.
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