Adolescent & Teen Therapy
Helping Adolescents Discover Their Values & Skills to Navigate Life
Navigating the Change of Adolescence
For some of us our teen years are often thought of as a “chaotic” period of time: full of emotion, confusion, rebellion, and seemingly endless mood swings. For some, these years are often chaotic and painful, swinging back and forth between frustration and anger to hopelessness and despair. But if you look at this experience developmentally, it makes sense. During high school and college, we go through many physical, hormonal, thinking, and emotional changes. This can impact relationships with family and friends, as we are flooded with rapid changes in our life. These changes may also lead toward a shift in how we see ourselves, others, and the world. As a result many teens experience feeling insecure in body, not knowing who we are, or ashamed of who we are.
Here at Guidepost we support adolescents experiencing a number of difficulties including:
Loneliness
High risk behaviors: substance use/self-harm
Mood shifts
Sadness
Friendships/Relationships issues
We all have a need for support
Adolescence can be a very lonely time. Even among large groups of friends and family, many teens feel isolated, not seen, not heard. It can be hard to open up, and talk about difficult experiences or sensitive emotions. This makes it even more difficult for teens, who are often already experiencing overwhelming changes in their lives. While these negative feelings among teens are common, they do not have to be experienced alone.
Reach Out, We’re Here to Help
If you are done feeling overwhelmed, tired and unhappy and need support through your journey, I am here to offer you a place to heal.
Therapy can help
Therapy can provide a range of benefits to adolescents, including but not limited to:
Increasing confidence
Building self awareness & self compassion
Learning new coping skills to thrive
Transforming perspectives
Finding new ways to understand and process emotions
We want to bring clarity into your life. The goal is simple but the work is hard. The goal is to get you back to yourself. In touch with your emotional, physical, and thinking self.
Through therapy, you can leverage our years of personal and clinical experience, to develop awareness of what your needs are, how to manage difficult emotions, develop skills to be comfortable when you are uncomfortable, and learn skills to deepen friendships.
Our goal as therapists…
Adolescence is the time of identity and value exploration. It is common for teens to feel confused about who they are, and who they want to be as they begin heading toward early adulthood. Our goals as therapists are to provide a space for adolescents to begin that journey of exploration and head toward the life path that they find worth building. Here at Guidepost Counseling, we aim to:
Support discovering who they are, values, and goals
Teach new tools, and skills to increase awareness, and promote mental health self care
Provide a non-judgemental space for self expression and exploration
Help discover strengths and build upon them to foster resilience
