Teen Counseling:

Teen counseling is a therapeutic approach specifically for teens. With counseling, teens participate in talk therapy in a safe environment with a mental health professional with the aim to better understand and express their feelings, identify and solve problems, and develop healthy coping mechanisms.

Teens don’t come with an instruction book! Many, many parents report great difficulty balancing limits with permissiveness, and discipline with privileges. Teens need just the right balance of freedom and supervision, and it takes great wisdom to get the balance right.

• Are you experiencing frequent parent-teen conflict.
• Is he or she defiant, rebellious or argumentative.
• Maybe she has anxiety, maybe he is depressed or has school problem.
• Do you feel she doesn’t communicate important things to you.
• Do you just wish your teen would listen.

Parenting Counseling as part of Teen Therapy:

It is amazing how good Parenting guidance can improve your relationship with your teen, as well as his or her overall emotional health! We as parents possess tremendous power to influence our teen’s well-being. Just “Tuning up” our Parenting a bit can bring about tremendous improvement.

“In Order To Help Our Children, Heal, We Must Understand And Address The Differences In Their Brain, Body, Biology, And Beliefs”

Adolescent Counseling:

Adolescent counseling is aimed at young people to help them make sense of their feelings, behaviors and thoughts and entails the use of unique techniques that draw out the expressive nature of a young person like art therapy or more traditional approaches like talking therapy. This form of counseling is important in helping guiding kids transitioning into adulthood and to understand themselves better.

The adolescence stage is the period when a child transitions from being a child to becoming an adult and usually takes place between the ages of 10 and 19. During this period, the young adult starts experiencing a great deal of mental and physical changes. Physically, adolescents start seeing changes in their bodies, a process referred to as puberty, and is a time that leaves them confused as the changes in hormones start affecting their moods and thoughts.

Counseling supports these growing kids with the mental and physical changes that they go through; and can help provide them with a safe space to process their thoughts and emotions, where they are treated with empathy, dignity and respect.

Life Supports offers teen & adolescent counseling for:

• Anger management.
• Academic Difficulties.
• Anxiety.
• Behavioral concerns.
• Body image issues.
• Bullying (online and at school)
• Depression.
• Drug and alcohol concerns.

 “As Human Beings, We All Mature Physically From Childhood To Adolescence And Then Into Adulthood, But Our Emotions Lag Behind”