Teens struggling with anxiety or depression, can benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This treatment helps youth express themselves, make friends, increase motivation, or manage worries.

CBT is an evidence-based treatment that identifies the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

In therapy, your teen would learn healthy and effective coping tools to assist with emotion regulation, including managing and expressing their feelings.

By recognizing unhealthy thought patterns, we can increase positive self-talk, self-confidence and self-esteem.

Many youth experience trauma or distressing events that affect their current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Youth who have been exposed to abuse, neglect, or single-incident traumas (e.g. car accident, natural disaster, loss of a loved one) may begin to struggle academically, have increased anxiety, defiance, or social isolation.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for youth ages 6-18 aimed to decrease trauma-related symptoms.

In treatment we would assess for the impact of trauma through screeners for symptoms of trauma (e.g. PTSD).

We integrate caregivers in helping the youth address the underlying thoughts, behaviors or emotions that surface as a results of the trauma.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) clients are able to identify difficult behaviors and find effective solutions.

DBT focuses on mindfulness, interpersonal relationships, emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

ACT-based skills focus on acceptance, mindfulness, values & committed actions and psychological flexibility, to embrace current thoughts as part of being human as opposed to changing our thoughts.

This approach helps clients decrease avoidance of emotions and accept these feelings as part of their daily life and understand common humanity.