Because a weekend can change everything

WEEKEND RESET

Your teen isn't broken. You aren't failing.

If you feel like you're walking on eggshells with your pre-teen, teen, or young adult, second-guessing every word, unsure which version of them you'll get today, you're not alone, and you likely don't need months of therapy to fix it.

I created the Weekend Reset after watching the same patterns show up again and again in my therapy practice: the same communication breakdowns, the same misunderstandings, the same erosion of trust.

Seeing how many families were dealing with the same issues made me realize I could help solve the problems faster.

The Weekend Reset is a live, small-group coaching program I built specifically for a certain type of parent, whether your child is a pre-teen still finding their footing, a teenager at home, or a young adult away at college:

  • You're a competent, engaged parent, and on some level, your teen knows it

  • Your teen is stuck rebelling, withdrawing, or lost in their own head, but they're not in an active crisis

  • There's no diagnosed mental health condition driving what's happening

  • Underneath the friction, there's no real contempt, just distance

  • You still have some influence: if you asked for something that truly mattered, they'd come through for you

  • You're willing to own the part you play in the breakdown of the relationship

It's structured, fast, and built around a single goal: repairing the relationship. Because once the relationship is sound, everything else falls into place.

Too often, parents focus on fixing the behavior instead of repairing the relationship, and that doesn't work with teens. You have to rebuild trust first. And we do that in one, highly structured conversation with your teen, backed by real self-awareness and preparation on your part beforehand.

The added pressure of high-achieving parents

If you've figured out how to succeed at almost everything else, career, marriage, running a household, this might feel like the first big problem you don't know how to solve. That's not a failure of effort or intelligence. It's that the skills that make you excellent at those other aspects of your life aren't the same skills that rebuild trust with a teenager, and nobody ever taught you those.

This isn't counseling

The Weekend Reset is coaching, not therapy. It's structured, skills-based, and focused on the relationship itself, not on diagnosing or treating a mental health condition. If your teen is dealing with something that needs clinical care, anxiety, depression, or another diagnosable concern, Teen Counseling or Family Counseling is the better starting point, and either one can give you the deeper, ongoing support that is required.

Curious if it's right for your family? The best next step is to read more about it on its dedicated website and attend one of my free, live, online trainings.

© 2026 Kristin MacDermott Method, Inc.

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