How to Help Your Teen Overcome Anxiety
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ollie Lia shares his story of struggling with anxiety when he started high school, and how his mom, Amber, helped him work through it. Ollie and Amber offer practical steps for teens and parents of teens to work through mental health challenges and find peace in Christ.
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| 0:33.6 | Today on Focus on the Family, Amber Leah and her son Ali join us to talk about the healing that God can bring to teens who struggle with anxiety. |
| 0:46.2 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:48.9 | John, teen anxiety rates have really risen over the last few years. |
| 0:52.5 | I think with COVID it began to show. My own son, |
| 0:56.1 | Troy, was a junior senior senior in high school. It was upside down. I mean, our little school district |
| 1:02.0 | here in Colorado Springs, they weren't really prepared to do at-home learning. There weren't |
| 1:06.7 | the systems and all those things. So it was unusual. And I think for those young people, |
| 1:12.9 | particularly during that COVID season, junior and seniors, freshmen, sophomores, it made a |
| 1:18.2 | real impact on them. Social structures were changed. I remember they didn't do the prom one year |
| 1:22.8 | and then the next year, they put tape on a floor and allowed only 10 students in the taped area. |
| 1:29.1 | That's crazy. |
| 1:29.5 | Where you could go and co-mingle was on the deck. |
| 1:33.4 | And guess what happened? |
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