Adolescent Counseling

Why Adolescent Counseling?

Raising a teenager is ripe with challenges for both teens and their caregivers.  As a caregiver, your instinct tells you to protect your kids to keep them safe.  Developmentally, however, teens are actively trying to establish themselves as independent and more aligned with peer groups.  This is where the majority of conflict with teens stem from!  I work with teens age 13+ to:

• create a safe space and reliable relationship, through which they can explore self-esteem, peer relationships, depression, anxiety, mood regulation, and school issues.  
• build rapport through coloring, talking about music, and other interests
• learn skills to aid in emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness through modeling effective communication in session and emotion regulation in session.
• I also work with caregivers on learning new ways to interact with their teens to reduce conflict.