Adolescent Counseling
Child and adolescent counseling provides deep insight into your child’s mental health and social/emotional development. We recognize, identify, assess, diagnose, and treat a wide range of mental health conditions, adjustment issues (divorce, new school, bullying, grief, etc.), and psychological distress.
More specifically, counselors can work with children and adolescents to help them make sense of what is going on in their minds, bodies, and lives, in a way they can understand. Talking to a counselor can be beneficial for coping with these changes and dealing with confusing situations and feelings.
Counseling allows children and adolescents to:
Explore and express their feelings through their preferred mode, such as talking, story-telling, play, artwork, or drama
Gain knowledge about and work through their emotions
Recover effectively in cases of abuse
Break down problems into manageable parts
Make better choices for positive outcomes
Improve self-esteem and self-worth
Develop social skills
Identify behavioral concerns
Work through grief caused by divorce, death, moving or other causes
Identify challenges and develop skills and tools to address them
Feel assured they have support to overcome the problem, which also gives them a voice to speak
Treatment approach most likely will include:
Behavioral Therapy: parents and children learn to promote desirable behaviors and reduce unwanted behaviors
Parent counseling: because a life of a child or a teen is intensely linked with the parents