All families encounter challenges, at one point or another. Children and teens have unique needs when it comes to counseling and through our experience with helping many kids overcome their struggles, we have created a system that builds an accepting, open, and judgment-free space to explore the issues children and teens are facing. Parents often don’t know exactly what is wrong, but they have an intuition that their child is struggling. Watching their child encounter or deal with painful events, while feeling like they can’t speak directly to them about the issues or are unsure how to approach them, often keeps any progress from being made. Our counselors are a bridge between what parents want best for their children, and where children find themselves so often struggling.
Parents are often confused about how and when to offer help in a child’s life. They are afraid of not taking action, while also being afraid of taking too much action. We know that having a complimentary conversation with one of our therapists will answer many of your questions and help you to make an informed choice about how our services are created to help children and teens overcome their challenges.
Our counselors are here to help parents and children dealing with:
Here are some of the many ways we work to help children and teens overcome the obstacles they are facing:
We focus on creating bridges and teaching positive, respectful relationship building. Generally, we meet with the parents and children together in the beginning of the first session so that we can outline the general concerns. Therapy proceeds to be working in combination with the children and/or teens individually as well as in a family session. We will continue to update the parents about the ongoing goals, interventions and progress.
“Deep human connection is the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.” -Melinda Gates
