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Desiree has been a wonderful mentor and leader in her various roles within the community. She has always exhibited great moral values and has been a wealth of knowledge and guidance.
Desiree is amazing! She’s a wonderful coach and understands teens very well. She’s organized and communicative with emails and appointment reminders. My son has great respect for her and appreciates the skills she uses to help him succeed academically.
2020 was such a bad year for all of us, but for high school seniors losing out on their final months of school activities and then being expected to march off to adulthood in the midst of a pandemic was a perfect recipe for chaos in my daughter. Desiree was great at helping her realize that while it felt chaotic, it wasn’t as bad as it seemed and helped her reframe her experiences. She worked with my daughter to get herself organized and focused, which helped her self esteem and lead to setting reasonable and realistic goals. She now has a clearer map for her future. We all know there’s no manual for raising children. There’s no definitely no manual on helping them to transition to adulthood while navigating a pandemic. Desiree took time to get to know my daughter and then was able to enable and encourage her to find a balance with school, home, family, and work. My husband and I are very pleased with Desiree’s approach and effort in working with our daughter and highly recommend her.
Parents rest assured you can entrust your child to Desiree Panlilio. When our daughter was a very young cadet at the Coast Guard Academy, Desiree and her family became a sponsor to her. Beyond giving her much needed respite from the demands of a military academy, Desiree became a mentor, coach, confidant, surrogate parent, and devoted friend. The bonds of this special relationship have extended well beyond the four-year sponsorship at the academy, throughout our daughter’s tours in the Middle East, Southern Florida and beyond. Desiree’s ability to incorporate skills and experiences from her medical, military, academic and parenting realms make her uniquely qualified to listen to, encourage, counsel and guide youth and young adults through the gauntlet of life’s challenges both on and off campus. As an educator and administrator for more than 40 years, I do strongly recommend Desiree Panlilio as a highly qualified professional. Parents can be comfortable entrusting their son or daughter to her counsel. Desiree Panlilio is truly one of the best!
Last year in the midst of COVID and imposed isolation on our nation, our son lost his academic focus at college and his grades suffered drastically. In the past when this had happened in school, he had been able to course correct with a little advice from us, his parents. Not this time. Emotions of guilt, anger and shame hung over him and colored any interaction with us on the subject of school. We did not know how to help him. However, we knew Desiree Panlilio of Encouraging Teens. We had seen her success with her own daughters and heard how she had helped numerous other teens. We hoped she might be able to help our son.
She did. It has been a true game changer. Desiree didn’t judge; she helped him focus and realize HE is in control of his destiny. She then equipped him with a path and framework for him to plan to and execute that control, and for us to effectively engage with him for support and accountability. With her guidance, he created, refined and actively owns his plan. It has been quite empowering for him. We see it clearly through the change in his communication, his confidence and his attitude. He recently commented that “I wish I’d known this from the start, it would have made college so much better.â€
Make no mistake:  Desiree gave him something much more than a tool for success at school; she equipped him to own and maximize his success at any stage in life. Thank you!