Matthew Butterman

3rd December 2025

Episode 29: Calming Teenage Anxiety (with Sophia Vale Galano, LCSW) | Nimble Youth | Episode 29

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. One of the most powerful tool for teen anxiety isn't a diagnosis, it's a daily practice parents can actually do at home. Today we're talking practical relief, how to spot when worry becomes a problem and what to do when yo...

27th November 2025

Episode 28: Autism, Then and Now: Patrick’s Story and the Power of Community | Nimble Youth | Episode 28

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome back to Nimble Youth. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Our experiment with live video capture continues and you can again see for yourselves why I've been told I have a face for radio. If it haven't scared you away a...

23rd November 2025

Episode 27: Adolescence, a Four-Part British TV Drama | Nimble Youth | Episode 27

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Hello, and welcome back to Nimble Youth, the podcast for anyone who cares about pediatric mental health, youth development, and helping young people navigate challenging times. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. And today, we'...

23rd October 2025

Episode 26: Teachers' Role in ADHD Diagnosis and Management | Nimble Youth | Episode 26

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome back to the Nimble Youth Podcast. I'm Matt Butterman. Today's episode is focused on teachers, a critical part of the proverbial village that is necessary to help raise mentally healthy and emotionally resilient chi...

17th October 2025

Episode 25: Growing up with Type 1 diabetes | Nimble Youth | Episode 25

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome back to the Nimmer Youth Podcast, the show that brings clarity, compassion, and expert insight to the challenges facing today's kids and teens. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. We just got back from the American Acad...

15th October 2025

Episode 24: Sandpaper Moments Pt. 2 - Building Grit and Resilience in Our Kids | Nimble Youth | Episode 24

Welcome back to the Nimble Youth Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, we're joined again by author and counselor Martha Metzler, whose book Sandpaper Moments inspired one of our most talked about episodes earlier this season. In that conversation, we explored what it means to grow through the gritty parts of parenting, the moments that rub us raw but ultimately smooth us out. Today, we're taking that idea even further. What does it mean to help our kids develop grit and resilience by...

10th October 2025

Episode 23: Disconnected - Understanding NEET Youth and the Struggle to Launch | Nimble Youth | Episode 23

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome back to the Nimble Youth Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, we're exploring a growing group of young people who seem to have stepped away from school, work, and sometimes even in person embodied experie...

3rd October 2025

Episode 22: ACES - Invisible Wounds | Nimble Youth | Episode 22

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome to the Nimble Youth Podcast, the show that brings clarity, compassion, and expert insight to the mental health challenges facing today's children and teens. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today's episode tackles a...

18th September 2025

Episode 21: Parenting with Purpose | Nimble Youth | Episode 21

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome back to the nimble youth podcast where we explore the challenges and opportunities of raising raising emotionally resilient kids and teens. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, I'm thrilled to be joined by therapi...

11th September 2025

Episode 20: School Shootings and their Associated Trauma | Nimble Youth | Episode 20

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome back to the nimble youth podcast. Today, we are addressing the elephant in the room, which is the frequency of school shootings in America, in The US, and how students are dealing with the collective trauma that th...

2nd September 2025

Episode 19: Back to School | Nimble Youth | Episode 19

Welcome to Nimble Youth, the podcast that helps parents navigate the challenges of raising children and teens in today's world. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. As we record this episode, students are heading back to school. It's an exciting time, but it's also stressful for kids and for their parents and caretakers. Teens face academic pressures, social dynamics, and sometimes heavy life stressors. Parents are often left wondering, how do I support my teen without overwhelming them? To help us a...

12th August 2025

Episode 2: Introduction to ADHD in children | Nimble Youth | Episode 2

Hello, and welcome to Nimble Youth, the podcast designed to provide special expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their child's mental health. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. And today, we begin a three part series on a topic that affects millions of families, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. And my guest today is doctor Gretchen Hoyle, a pediatrician based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. If you've ever wondered why your child struggl...

12th August 2025

Episode 3: Continuing care for ADHD in teens and young adults | Nimble Youth | Episode 3

Welcome to Nimble Youth, the podcast designed to provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their child's mental health. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. And today, we continue our close look at ADHD, examining specifically how clinicians treat ADHD, which is a very complex chronic condition. And my guest today and for, our whole three part series on ADHD is doctor Gretchen Hoyle, a pediatrician based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. And before we st...

12th August 2025

Episode 4: Medications for ADHD | Nimble Youth | Episode 4

Welcome to Nimble Youth. The podcast designed to provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their child's mental health. I'm your host, Matt Butterman, and today we're gonna dive into the multifaceted world of ADHD medications, a topic that affects millions yet still remains shrouded by complexity and debate. According to the National Institute of Mental Health's research database PubMed, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, is diagnosed...

12th August 2025

Episode 5: Anxiety in younger children | Nimble Youth | Episode 5

Welcome back to Nimble Youth, the podcast where we explore the emotional lives of children and teens and give parents the tools and advice they need to navigate the complex journey, for your child. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, we're focusing on an issue that is becoming increasingly urgent, but still too often misunderstood, anxiety in children. We'll be focusing on younger children today, with a separate, two episode series for adolescent anxiety. We're looking at teenage girls first a...

12th August 2025

Episode 6: The Silent Storm: Anxiety and Depression in Adolescent Girls | Nimble Youth | Episode 6

Welcome back to Nimble Youth, the podcast where we help parents navigate the emotional terrain of raising kids in today's modern world. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, we're talking about a mental health crisis that is quietly and sometimes invisibly reshaping the lives of millions of young people, particularly adolescent girls. Anxiety and depression have been on the rise among teens for over a decade, but the numbers for girls are especially stark and very deeply concerning. Our guest ag...

12th August 2025

Episode 7: Boys, Screens, and Mental Health: Understanding the Digital Abyss | Nimble Youth | Episode 7

Welcome back to Nimble Youth, where we unpack the challenges and breakthroughs in raising emotionally resilient kids in today's world. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. And in today's episode, we're diving into a topic that has come under some media scrutiny recently, and it urgently needs our attention as well, the rising rates of anxiety and depression amongst teenage boys and young men. And isn't just a blip on the radar. It's a growing public health crisis. Did you know that suicide is now the...

12th August 2025

Episode 8: Collaborative Care - the Future of Mental Health Management | Nimble Youth | Episode 8

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we explore practical tools and fresh perspectives to support kids' mental health. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, we're tackling a big shift in how pediatric mental health care is delivered and why that's great news for families. If you've ever felt like you're the one doing all the care coordination for your child between doctors, therapists, teachers, and insurance companies, you're not alone. The mental health system hasn...

12th August 2025

Episode 9: Why Is My Teen Cutting? Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury | Nimble Youth | Episode 9

Welcome to the Nimble Youth podcast, where we provide expert insights and valuable resources for parents navigating the complexities of their children's mental health. We empower parents to nurture healthy minds in children, teens, and young adults through real conversations. Welcome to the Nimble Youth Podcast. We explore the real challenges facing kids and teens today, and how we as adults can show up with insight, compassion, and action. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. And today, we're diving...

12th August 2025

Episode 10: A Gut Feeling - Constipation, Anxiety and ADHD in Children | Nimble Youth | Episode 10

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Nimble Youth Podcast, where we talk about all things health, growth, and thriving in childhood and adolescence. I'm your host, Matt Butterman. Today, we're digging into something that might not seem very glamorous, but it's incredibly important and surprisingly common in kids, constipation and abdominal pain. But here's the twist. It often overlaps with mental health challenges like anxiety and ADHD. With me today is doctor Gretchen Hoyle, a pediatrician wit...