Adolescent Counseling
Why seek Adolescent Counseling?
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Low self esteem
- Bullying
- Grief
- Difficulties adjusting to life circumstances
- Processing past events
- Anger
- Trauma
- Lacking coping skills
- Stress management
- Etc.
What is Adolescent Counseling?
This type of counseling is one-on-one counseling or family counseling targeted at solving problems adolescents may struggle with.
As your therapist I work to foster a healthy therapeutic alliance, cultivate a safe environment, and build feelings of care and understanding. In this kind of environment teens are more likely to explore, examine, and work on their issues as well as gain further insight and experience that can help produce change.
Based on the need and most effective model of therapy, I may recommend either individual or family sessions for adolescent counseling.
Who can benefit from Adolescent Counseling?
Many teens and their families can benefit from adolescent counseling. If your teen is struggling, there is a good chance this type of therapy can help reduce that struggle or help them cope with said struggle.
What you might learn in Marriage and Family Therapy.
I focus on how both insight and experience and lead to lasting change.
I help you explore “core hurts” or primary emotions to help you better understand your thoughts and behaviors.
I not only help you produce change, I seek to help you understand that process of change so you can replicate that change on your own in the future.
Thoughts and behaviors are the back bone of our mental health. By helping you understand and change your thoughts and behaviors you will be able to overcome just about any struggle.
I discuss models such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Understanding your needs and how they effect your thoughts and behaviors can help to achieve lasting change.
We often get stuck in a ineffective homeostasis as a family. Through understanding the cycles and processes maintaining that homoeostasis we are better able to break free and produce meaningful change.
I like using metaphors and analogies to help discuss complex topics by breaking them down and making them easier to understand.
I will help you and your loved ones reduce conflict through the expression of “core hurts” and emotionally corrective experiences.
Through the years I have founds that the best tools to build better relationships is through fostering feelings of care and understanding.
As a LMFT I focus on systems theory or how everything effects everything. By understanding the system as a whole we are better able to produce change.
There are too many possible ways therapy can help to list. If you have questions about whether or not I can help, reach out and contact me. I would be happy to answer any of your questions.
