Teen Therapy
Teachers Email About Missed Homework and Your Mornings Are a Fight
The emails from teachers keep coming about assignments that never got turned in.
Most mornings you’re negotiating just to get your teen to school.
Friday night their friends are at the football game. Your teen stays home.
Most evenings they close themselves off from everyone else. The anger lands on you.
And You Can’t Tell What Would Help Anymore
Their behaviors leave you questioning your own parenting.
And you feel helpless about the ways they’ve been hurting themselves.
No one quite knows how to support them.
Your teen doesn’t know what they need. They aren’t ready to talk about any of it.
Add a Loss, and Your Teen Hits the Limit of What They Can Handle Alone
The teenage years are daunting on their own: relationships, identity, sexuality, school pressure, family dynamics.
Grief arrives on top of all of it.
That timing is what makes the grief itself harder to name.
You want back the confident, social person you knew before the loss.
Your Teen Doesn’t Have to Explain Any of It First
I trained at a grief center, in teen groups and one to one with a teen who had lost someone.
Your teen and I start with whatever they’re already doing: a game, something to make with their hands, movement when sitting still asks too much.
An indirect entry allows for expression when the words aren’t there yet.
It also gives the two of us something real to look at together.
You Stay Part of the Work the Whole Way
Caregivers are a teen’s primary support.
So keeping you in the loop matters to me.
When it serves your teen, I’ll bring you into a session.
A caregiver who knows what’s happening in the session supports your teen the rest of the week.
So Your Teen Can Set the Day’s Pressure Aside and Sort Out What’s Confusing
My work is to accompany your teen through the hard parts and stay with feelings that make no sense yet.
Whatever your teen can’t say yet comes out in the doing, with an adult who stays for it.
Teens tell me they feel lighter once somebody understands them.
The confident, social kid you’ve been missing gets room to come back.
Decide for Yourself Whether I’m the Right Fit for Your Teen
Don’t wait to get your teen the extra layer of support.
Your teen sees me in my Traverse City office, or online wherever you are in Michigan.
Book a free 20-minute consultation and ask whatever you need to ask.
Help is available. Your teen doesn’t have to feel this way forever.
It’s Time to Heal Your Heartache
You’ve kept company with this pain long enough.
I’ll accompany you into the painful places, where you can feel truly seen, and together we’ll clear a way through, one step at a time.
Ready to begin restoring your relationships and finding your full self again? Schedule your free consultation today.