The Back Door To Your Teen's Heart: Learning What They Need and Helping Them Find It
Melissa Trevathan, MRE, first became a youth director at the age of sixteen. Since that time, she has been a teacher, retreat leader, head of spiritual life at a private school in Nashville, and now founder and executive director of a counseling ministry called Daystar Counseling Ministries that began in 1985. Melissa received her master's degree in religious education from Southwestern Baptist Seminary. She has been counseling children, adolescents, and adults for over twenty years and is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors. Melissa has spoken across the country, including teaching graduate courses in counseling adolescents and has been a guest on television and radio programs throughout the United States and in Canada. Melissa coauthored The Back Door to Your Teen's Heart published in 2002 by Harvest House in addition to Raising Girls published in 2007 by Zondervan, and teaches seminars based on these books and other parenting topics. She and her old English sheepdog, Molasses, divide their time between Nashville and Kentucky Lake. Sissy Goff, MED, LPC-MHSP, has worked as the director of child and adolescent counseling and the director of summer programs at Daystar since 1993. Sissy received her masters degree in human development counseling from Vanderbilt University. She is a member of the American Association of Certified Counselors and is a licensed professional counselor-mental health service provider. She also has been a guest on television and radio programs across the United States and in Canada. She has spoken at numerous churches, schools, and youth organizations and teaches parenting classes on a variety of topics. She has also written for CCM Magazine and other periodicals. She and Melissa Trevathan coauthored The Back Door to Your Teen's Heart published by Harvest House Publishers in 2002 and Raising Girls published by Zondervan in 2007. She lives with her Maltese, Noel, in Nashville.