Your Parent Coach by Mel White

Understanding Your Teen’s Emotional World with Dr Veronique Elefant-Yanni


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In this powerful episode, I sit down with Dr. Veronique Elefant-Yanni, a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience supporting children, parents, and families worldwide. Dr. Veronique introduces her transformative 3D Human Therapy™ framework, a holistic model that helps parents understand the emotional dynamics driving their child’s behaviour, without over-pathologising.


She explains why anger in teens is often misunderstood, how early-life circumstances shape emotional development, and why reconnecting with our internal world is key to resilience — for both parents and their kids.



What You’ll Learn in This Episode
  • The two-brain model: your thinking brain vs. your gut-feeling brain
  • What “affects” are and how they shape your daily experience every 250 milliseconds
  • Why teens experience such big emotional waves, especially anger
  • How birth experiences, early attachment, and environmental stressors contribute to emotional patterns
  • Why changing your perception (not the past) is the real work of healing
  • How meditation, presence, and simple daily practices rebuild internal safety and emotional regulation
  • The four tools of Dr Veronique’s Program: Free Breathing (1-minute reset), Daily Small Pleasure, Green Walks in nature, 20 minute daily meditation as hygiene for the mind
  • Why naming your emotions aloud helps diffuse anger
  • How parents can model emotional awareness to help their teens feel more grounded and safe
  • What it means to become psychologically independent — and why this is the foundation of freedom



🔗 Download Dr Veronique’s Free Guide

Get her 30-page guide “3D Human Therapy: A User Guide to Who You Are”

👉 http://www.psychologyexperts.online/3D



Actionable Takeaway

Start with one tool today — a 1-minute breathing reset, a mindful coffee, a short walk in nature, or a few minutes of meditation. Change doesn’t happen all at once, but it does happen when you return to yourself, again and again.



Final Message

You have the power to shift your emotional world and in doing so, you shift your family’s. Awareness, presence, and compassion create the foundation for deeper connection with your teen.


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