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My go-to approach for teenagers in individual therapy is identifying their goals and working at their pace. I prefer, enjoy, and find the best benefit in letting the teen identify their goals and assist with direction and accountability. As with any therapeutic work, it is important for the clinician and teenager to have a healthy therapeutic relationship with a safe space and support to explore more challenging thoughts and emotions.
I teach the following tools in individual therapy:
I know a client is making meaningful progress in individual therapy when they are able to utilize tools that they have learned in therapy in their day-to-day life and feel an associated relief since the onset of treatment.
Teens can supplement their time in individual therapy with journaling, meditation, exercise, socialization, reading, and other mindfulness practices identified to be beneficial to them.
To prepare for the first individual therapy session for a teenager, I encourage the teen to answer:
Teen counseling helps young individuals better understand and manage the challenges that affect their mental health. Common challenges amongst teens include anxiety, depression, ADHD, and problematic relationships with food.
Teen counseling works by using multiple techniques, tailored to fit the teen’s unique needs — based on their age group, their challenges, and the severity of their challenges. It might involve cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, art therapy, and others for varying ages. In any case, Thriveworks teen therapists in The Woodlands have the expertise and experience to help young individuals at their level.
Signs that teens might need Teen counseling can be very subjective, as they are experiencing many changes and can have intense reactions to them. As parents, you know your child best and are best equipped to judge whether certain reactions are standard behaviors for your teen or whether they might be hinting at a larger problem. Even so, there are a few common signs and events that often point to a need for therapy, such as experiencing divorce or loss, grief, consistent low moods, teens distancing themselves and becoming isolated, losing interest in hobbies, excessive anger or irritability, substance use issues, and suicidal ideation, among others.
Teen counseling providers at Thriveworks in The Woodlands, TX offer both in person and online therapy by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
The length of teen counseling depends on your teen’s needs as well as the goals that you and their therapist might have for them. Generally, teen counseling sessions will last for several months.
Teen counseling is treatment specifically designed for therapists to assist your adolescent with their emotional difficulties, while taking into account their developmental level. Many times, consequences, interventions, or plans to assist teens at home or school may not stick because they are not meeting a teen’s developmental level.
Some mental disorders may begin to appear in adolescence including learning disorders such as ADHD/ADD, dyslexia, and processing disorders meaning teens experience deficits in learning, reading, and/or writing. A Thriveworks therapist can work with your child to address these conditions and help them achieve their potential—call us at (281) 984-6849.
Teen counseling can assist adolescents who are experiencing the following:
Attempting to be your child’s counselor can actually interfere with your relationship and even damage it as it’s hard for teens to take your consequences (though probably well deserved) AND open up about their deepest feelings to you. Teen counseling can actually increase the teen-parent relationship as it gives parents permission to not have to know everything, and it gives the teen their own person to process life with, without feeling judged.
Teen counseling can last anywhere from 3-6 months, and sometimes longer when needed or desired. Teen counseling can begin as weekly sessions and over time sessions can decrease to twice a month or less depending on progress.
Parenting or family sessions can even be done during your teen’s treatment depending on what brings your teen to therapy. A Thriveworks therapist will meet with parents alone first to gather all the information needed such as frequency, intensity, duration of behaviors, prior treatment, medical history, social needs, familial relationships, and treatment goals.
Call us at (281) 984-6849 to connect with one of our awesome schedulers who can connect you and your teen to some solace and support. You’ll be relieved you did.
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