The Teen Girl’’s Guide to Relationships, Sexuality, and Consent: How to Stay Empowered, Safe, and Confident

Are you looking for clear and reliable information about relationships, sexuality, safety, and consent? You can find it in this essential guide--just for teen girls.

As a teen girl, you probably have a ton of questions about sex and relationships. For example, what do you do if someone sends or asks you to send an explicit picture or text? How do you know if you are straight, bi, pan, or gay? What do you do if you are being pressured to do something you don’t want to do? This book has all the answers you seek.

Written by two experts in teen mental health, this go-to guide offers empowering tools to help you build self-esteem, clarify your values, understand your sexual identity and boundaries, decide what feels right for you, and know what to do when things go wrong. And by practicing the simple evidence-based skills in this book, you’ll learn how to handle any situation that you may encounter--whether online or IRL.

As a teen girl navigating the world of sex, dating, and relationships, you need to feel empowered and confident to make important decisions for yourself that are grounded in self-respect and safety. This book can help, every step of the way.

Leah Aguirre, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, and practices in San Diego, CA. She works primarily with teens and adults who have experienced complex trauma, including childhood abuse, domestic violence and dating violence, and provides trauma-based treatment including eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Aguirre has a blog on Psychology Today, and has been featured in GQ, The San Diego Union Tribune, and in the Sanity & Self and DiveThru apps.

Geraldine O’Sullivan, LCSW, PPSC, is a licensed clinical social worker with a pupil personnel services credential in school social work and child welfare and attendance. She currently practices as a school social worker in San Diego County where she provides mental health counseling services and crisis intervention to teens using therapeutic modalities including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and solution focused therapy. O’Sullivan is known for her research on the topic of eustress, which was published in Social Indicators Research, and is author of a literature review on the topic of teleworking published by the Southern Area Consortium of Human Services.