Adolescent Therapy
Children and teens can benefit from talking with a licensed therapist. Providers will adjust techniques to meet your child’s maturity and needs.
Life can often seem confusing or overwhelming for children and adolescents. It may seem hard for them to make sense of the world. Child and Adolescent Therapy is an opportunity to help your child, tween, or teen understand how and why they are behaving and feeling certain emotions.
Psychotherapy can help children and adolescents in many ways: emotional support, resolving conflicts, stress management, understanding feelings, developing coping skills, understanding problems, and developing solutions to their problems. Play therapy and art therapy are also available.
Therapy can address issues such as reducing anxiety, behavioral issues, improving self-esteem, improving relationships with friends and family.
Balanced Life Counseling is a safe place for children, tweens, and teenagers to talk without fear of hurting their parents’ feelings or getting in trouble.
Sometimes as parents, we get so consumed with how hard it is raising a teen that we forget how hard it is to be a teenager.
When your teen is hurting and struggling, it can impact the whole family. Parents experience a wide range of feelings including exhaustion, fear, anger, and hopelessness. Getting your teen, the help they need helps parents and entire families heal!
Childhood Issues may include the following:
- Abuse
- School Related Problems
- Educational Issues
- Learning Difficulties
- Social Skills
- Bullying
- Behavioral Issues
- Coping Skills
- ADHD
Adolescent Issues may include the following:
- Self Esteem
- Body Image
- School Related Problems
- Academic Underachievement
- College Planning
- Social Issues
- Dating
- Breakups
- Bullying/Cyberbullying
- Peer Pressure
- Decision Making
- Independence Struggles
- Puberty
- Abuse
Social Media
Without a doubt, social media has changed the way teens are growing up today, with several studies showing prolonged use resulting in low self-esteem and anxiety and an increase in cyberbullying. It’s tough to keep kids off of social networking apps, so the goal needs to be to understand how to use social media in a healthy way.
Group Therapy
Is Your Teen in Need of Additional Support?
At Balanced Life Counseling, we also offer Teens for Truth support groups.
Group therapy is a process through which a small group of people (generally 3 to 8) meet face-to-face with a trained group therapist to talk about a particular issue with which all of them is struggling—such as self-esteem, anger management, eating disorders, bullying, depression or anxiety, or social anxiety..
Under the direction of the group therapist, members share and explore their feelings and behaviors, hear different points of view, learn new coping strategies, and receive encouragement from others facing similar issues. Group therapy provides participants a powerful opportunity to share and learn from others in a safe and supportive environment while working toward healing and change.
For many teens, group experience is often the first time in their lives that they feel as if others can relate to and identify with the issues that brought them to treatment. Our groups also help clients build interpersonal mastery and provide them an avenue to resolve conflicts in a healthy and healing way.
Benefits of Group Therapy
- Identify with others who are going through similar experiences or struggles.
- Give and receive support in a friendly and non-judgmental environment.
- Strengthen communication and social skills.
- Learn valuable skills and gain insight from peers.
- Build healthy relationships.
