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Birch Psychology’s Approach to Teen Therapy in Denver
Adolescence is a challenging time for teenagers- where they begin to experience heightened anxiety from relationships, school, new emotions, and more. As a child their world is sheltered, but as a child grows older, that world involve more complicated conditions. This change can cause stress, depression, self esteem issues, and other concerns that could be addressed through teen counseling services.
Out teen therapists are trained to teach healthy coping mechanisms and skills to teen clients struggling with anxiety, depression, parent conflicts, and more. Teen therapists specialize in working through the teenage years, providing a safe and supportive environment for teens to express themselves, explore their feelings, and learn valuable skills.
Overall, teen therapy plays a crucial role in supporting the mental and emotional well-being of adolescents as they navigate the challenges of adolescence and enter adult life.
Common struggles teens face
Teens face a difficult world! A couple creates a child, maybe multiple children, and over time their children become teens. Parents will try their best to support their aging adolescents, but the techniques that work on a child are different than the skills that work for parenting teens. Families can be strained when an individual is struggling to heal.
Sometimes, teens may end up requiring counseling with a therapist to teach them helpful skills to navigate feelings that arise from the following common struggles:
Peer pressure
Drug use
Substance abuse
Anxiety
School difficulty
Depression
Relationship challenges
Strong emotions
Separated parents
Why choose us for Denver teen counseling
Birch Psychology offers individuals the opportunity to seek trauma treatment from a diverse group of specialists in various trauma niches.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Birch's commitment to DEI ensures that diverse identities are represented among its clinicians, allowing new clients to work with therapists who may share their identities. Counseling is life changing, and different backgrounds require different approaches.
Evidence-Based Counseling
A licensed professional will utilize empirically driven forms of therapy to provide healing, and these types of counseling include cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, EMDR, and more. Birch offers a wide variety!
FAQs about teen counseling services
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Many parents and many teens clash, and having a neutral third party support person to offer coping strategies through structured family therapy could alleviate shared feelings of struggling.
Sometimes we utilize family therapy, and sometimes individual teen therapy with some family therapy sessions on occasion is sufficient.
Sometimes parents seeking support may instead engage in parent coaching to learn new skills to revitalize the ways they manage their child, and help their teen understand these skills through indirect forms of counseling.
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At each phase of life, there are differing forms of individual therapy that can be recommended. Play therapy is a form of individual therapy recommended for children. Children under the age of eight are typical candidates for play therapy.
For children at a higher level of maturity and learning capability, talk therapy is more commonly utilized. Cognitive behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization reprocessing, dialectical behavioral therapy, and more are commonly recommended approaches to counseling. These are chosen based on presenting concerns and modified to fit a patient's needs.
Anxiety, depression, and low self esteem can be treated by a therapist through counseling in a private practice setting, through online therapy in a supportive space, a residential treatment program, or an intensive outpatient program.
Set your teen up for success with our adolescent counseling services in Denver.
For teen therapy, Denver has many choices to offer teens and parents. Offering support for a teen's mental health is an area of strength for our team of therapists at Birch.
If you have a teen struggling with adolescent issues of peer pressure and drug use, depression, anxiety, life stressors, and relationship challenges, call us for a complimentary consultation.
Our practice is accepting new clients- children, adults, adolescents, and relationships. We offer a safe space to teach skills and healthy ways to combat mental health issues and life stressors.
