teen support

A kind, neutral space for teens

Our teenage years can be hard when we are figuring out a great deal of change all at once. Counselling does not replace support from family or friends but provides an additional opportunity to explore concerns and difficulties in a safe confidential environment with the support and care of a professional.

By engaging in a joint experience with a trained therapist we are able to address past and current difficulties, curb feelings of isolation, support a healthy sense of development and foster personal growth.

  • Overwhelmed & defined by academic expectations or results, struggling to balance school work with daily life, experiencing burnout, high levels of rigidity or lack of routine

  • Outbursts, defiance or active withdrawal, often feeling misunderstood and invalidated due to anger masking underlying feelings of hurt, fear or frustration

  • A constant state of worry, fear or unease without 'real' external threats, an unhealthy state of anxiousness impacting everyday life and functioning

  • Loss of a close relation or friend, processing internal grief and external mourning, complex grief if death was by suicide or homicide

  • Negative thoughts or feelings around body perception, preoccupation with weight or shape, disordered eating, concerns around attractiveness and self- worth

  • Changes of a family unit, lack of communication or miscommunication, exploring family narratives plus cultural, sibling or generational conflict

common reasons for counselling

  • Perfectionism, high levels of self-doubt and criticism, difficulty recovering from mistakes, setting either unrealistic or easily accomplished goals, controlling behaviour, internal self-worth linked to external behaviour

  • Navigating conflict, understanding individual friendships and group behaviour, social media effects of attaining and maintaining friends, gaslighting behaviour, bullying or feeling excluded

  • Discovering traits that are important to your sense of self, exploring private and public identities, social and cultural influences of identity, changes in identity and self-acceptance

  • Feeling unworthy and unable to see value in themselves, a prolonged sense of hopelessness and lack of motivation, non-suicidal self harm

  • Trial separations, divorce, temporary or permanent physical separation due to illness, family crisis, work opportunity or military deployment

  • Raised in a culture different from parents or away from country of origin, blending elements from both worlds into a unique and adaptable identity, struggling with attachment or belonging

The right support

with

the right therapist

Research continously shows that the most influential and important factor in a positive therapeutic outcome is the relationship between the client and the therapist. Wherever possible, or appropiate, include your child in the search for the ‘right’ therapist for them.

Their connection with the professional will be vital to their experience of counselling.