This is an exciting and challenging time for every kid
We love working with teenagers, preteens, and children
• Learning how to communicate with parents/family (Relationships)
• Anxiety about their future/the future (Anxiety)
• Coping with divorcing parents (Relationships)
• Identity questions (e.g., gender identity and/or sexual orientation) (Identity)
• Struggles with siblings, classmates, or bullies (Relationships)
• Drug/alcohol experimentation and addiction (Addiction)
• First relationships and heartbreak (Relationships)
• Feeling hopeless or isolated (Depression)
Together, Cory and LaShawn have over 50 years of experience working with teenagers and preteens.
A message to parents:
Here too, it’s ok to ask for help. You don’t have to be everything for your child, especially as they navigate adolescence.
In addition to offering parent-coaching and -counseling, we work as therapists for teenagers/pre-teenagers. Sometimes we focus on family issues (communication skills, healthy arguing, understanding divorce, getting along with siblings) and other times the issues are your teen’s/preteen’s unique struggles (depression, worries about the future, identity questions). Frequently it’s a combination of family topics and individual issues.
A message to teens/preteens:
Just like we tell our adult clients, we want you to understand that it’s ok to do therapy.
Therapy isn’t about something being wrong with you - it can about having a safe place for you to talk about your struggles and your feelings - it can be a place where we work on communication - it can be a place where we talk about your dreams and goals.
As a teen/preteen, you live with lots of adults telling you what to do and how to live your life. Therapy is a place where instead of telling you what to do, we have a conversation about what you want to do.
