Helping you reconnect with teens facing anxiety, ASD, or ADHD
Proven tools from an experienced speech pathologist
“Why won’t they talk to me, especially when something’s wrong?”
Sound familiar? You’re not alone, and there is a way forward.
Hey! I’m Telissia Gray, a mum of three and a practicing Speech Pathologist.
I give parents the building blocks they need to reconnect with their teen facing anxiety, ASD, or ADHD when it feels like they’ve shut you out, rebuilding trust so your child feels safe coming to you with worries, struggles, and the big things they don’t tell anyone else.
A little about me...
Speech Pathologist Telissia Gray
I’m a practicing Speech Pathologist who works closely with teens facing anxiety, ASD, or ADHD, and with the adults who care about them most, especially parents.
Over the years, I kept hearing the same quiet heartbreak from families: “They used to talk to me about everything. Now I get nothing.” Parents described constant power struggles, one-word answers, or discovering something was wrong only after it had escalated. Many blamed themselves or worried their teen simply didn’t trust them anymore.
In clinical sessions, I saw a different picture. These young people were not unwilling to connect. Often they were overwhelmed, unsure how to explain what they felt, or afraid of being misunderstood. When the right environment, timing, and language were used, they opened up, sometimes very quickly.
I began teaching parents the same practical approaches we use clinically, simple ways to reduce pressure, rebuild trust, and make it easier for their teen to talk. Again and again, parents told me conversations felt calmer, arguments eased, talk-anxiety dropped, and their teen started coming to them voluntarily, including about the hard things.
This 4-step approach grew out of that work. It brings together evidence-based tools, clinical communication methods, and mindset shifts that help teens facing anxiety, ASD, or ADHD feel safe enough to open up to you, even about the difficult things.
No parent wants to feel shut out from their teen’s inner world, especially during the high school years, when they may need support the most.
A simple 4-step approach
A world-first resource created for adults who care about teens facing anxiety, ASD, or ADHD who feel shut out or unsure how to reconnect
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Reconnect with teens experiencing Anxiety, ASD, or ADHD
CourseIf conversations often end in silence, shutdowns, or conflict, this 4-step approach shows what actually helps. Learn practical, clinically grounded ways to lower pressure, rebuild trust, and help teens feel safe opening up, even difficult things.
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My 16yo with autism had basically stopped talking to me. One word answers, grunts (or as telisa puts it non verbal) bedroom door alwayed, the lot.
Telisia has helped me to know what to do to help him actually talk to me again. the safe-space codeword actually worked...the first time he used it I stopped what I was doing, put my phone away and listened, then told me about some one of his friends at school who showed him inapropriate pictures on his phone. I was so proud of him and so grateful to the codeword tool because I am 100% sure without this tool my boy would not hacve come to me about it.
really excited to see if he talks to me more, especially about things at school
talking after school
Before this course I was constantly second guessing myself, always saying the wrong thing and making him shut down. My 14yo with ADHD would just walk away or mumble. When I started modelling conversation and even uysing the scripts,things started to change. I started talking about just small, kinda stupid everyday stuff after I pick him up (getting him to keep his headphones out was a challenge thoough) and after a few days he'd actually tell me about what happened at school. That never used to happen.
great tools
I brought this after seeing the video on facebook and honestly I was skeptical because I had already done speech language pathology for my daughter who would only speak to me if she wanted something, never when she needed help or was having trouble with her online friends. I slowly applied some of the tools from Telissia and things started improving, I think the biggest change was realising that I had to make the effort and change myself first. The original speechie we saw was really no help, I wish we found telissia to begin with!
Always being available - game changer!!!
My daughter is autistic and would close up to me for days randomly. I could never figure out why, she would never say. When I approached her about changing my mindset and trying to always be available to her, she said that was pretty much the reason she wouldn't talk to me for days on end. I wouldn't listen to her so she stopp appproaching me.
I think sometimes it will be hard to always be available but the fact that it meant so much to her and I didn't even realise it is a massive game changer for us. Thank you so much for your expertise
Since we moved for my work, our 17yo was always talking negatively, every single thing we did was bad to her. I saw this course recommended on an autism community page and someone mentioned there was a lesson on reframing bad conversations, so I brought the course for my wife and I and honestly it actually worked, I don't know if it's because our daughter was sick of us reframing or if she actually started seeing the good in the bad things, but she doesn't complain about stuff any where near as much now. Money well spent!!!
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