Teen
and Adolescent Counseling
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Often
parents feel overwhelmed and upset they are unable to manage
a adolescent or teenager in their home.
At times, parents feel as if there is no way out, or that nothing
can cure the reactivity and arguing at home. I want you to know
that you can work and engage with your child in healthy ways.
By discovering and properly dealing with the roots causes of
the conflict, you can put a stop to the patterns that exist
and the frustration that can and odes occur for parents attempting
to raise and teach their teen. There is hope!
Teens
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Often
teenagers loose direction in how they might attain autonomy,
power, influence, and a sense of self-esteem. They then develop
maladaptive ways of meeting those needs. They get caught in
depression, negative peer groups, substance use, defiance at
home, etc. This can be effectively dealt with by my Life-Mapping
and counseling work. Standard talk-therapy is often too clinically
weak and can irritating/boring to teens. They tend to tune out
and merely put up with the counseling to appease parents. In
my Life-Mapping work I work with the adolescent in building
rapport and assisting them in mapping and organizing their lives
from a strengths-based perspective. This occurs by aligning
with them to help them own and manage their own life. They often
complain to me about feeling like their parents are trying to
'run their life'. So, helping them develop a framework and a
plan in concert with the parents agenda can help them feel autonomous
but still connected to parents. It leads parents to still be
parents but also have some sense of knowledge and control over
what their teen is doing. Students with ADD or ADHD and other
academic challenges can receive help as well. I have extensive
history and training in working with substance abuse and substance
dependence. Helping teens with chemical and sexual addictions
can help them rid these stumbling blocks that have impeded their
lives in a manner that does not allow room for healthy relationships
with their parents. I have been working with teens for seven
plus years providing counseling and help for parents and teens.
The
Process
Teens typically engage with me in an initial parent consultation
and then a teen intake assessment. I then offer individual and
parent-teen sessions. Typically the nature and flow of the sessions
is determined by the teens needs and information cleaned from
the parent consultation. In these sessions the teens receives
a comprehensive assessment, detailed feedback regarding the
strengths and areas of improvement, co-generated life-map, and
concrete details on moving forward and owning their space and
thoughts. Consistency and accountability is taken and your teen
will manage and facilitate the treatment process by homework
and assignments that they do as they work through their Life-Map.
I work concurrently with parents as well so they can support
the counseling process while at home with their teen. Read more
about parenting and teens on my blog here.
Contact
me to arrange an appointment by email or phone, 435.986.1777
