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Help Them Start Healing with Expert Adolescent Therapy in Red Deer

Whether your teen is struggling with anxiety, stress, or emotional overwhelm, our certified therapists provide a safe, caring space to help them thrive. Sessions are confidential, locally based, and tailored for real results.

It Takes Practice Counselling Red Deer

Empathetic Teen Counselling in Red Deer That Truly Helps

We help teens in Red Deer feel seen, supported, and emotionally strong with therapy tailored to their unique challenges.

Teens today are facing more mental health challenges than before. Some experts have dubbed today’s youth the “most stressed generation”.

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The issues they face now can affect their family relationships, social lives, school performance, and overall health and well-being.

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If your teen is struggling with anxiety, depression, self-harm, or boundaries, counselling can help.

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Counselling will help build awareness around their anxiety and depression and give them tools to cope in a healthy way. Counselling can also help them effectively communicate and set healthy boundaries.

It Takes Practice Counselling Red Deer
It Takes Practice Counselling Red Deer

Signs Your Teen May Be in Need of Therapy:

  • Major changes to family life – i.e., divorce, re-marriage or death

  • Changes in academic, social, or athletic performance

  • Engaging in risky or self-harming behaviours

  • Teen appears sad more than normal and has large swings in mood

  • Isolating themselves more (i.e., spending much time in their room alone, on electronic devices, and not engaging with the family)

  • Teens have changed in groups of friends – i.e., hanging out with different people and ignoring old friends or talking about many friend issues

  • Changes in activities they once loved

  • Aggressive behaviour or increased anger towards others - i.e., more outbursts, anger, swearing, cutting comments, arguing

  • Changes in sleep or eating patterns

  • Complains of: headache, stomachache, or not feeling well despite being healthy

  • Sexual, physical, or emotional abuse

  • Problems with drugs or alcohol

Counselling Can Help Teens:

  • Improve self-esteem

  • Learn skills for developing healthy friendships

  • Learn how to hold boundaries with others that are healthy and not reactive

  • Learn how to be assertive in using their voice in relationships

  • Work though anxiety and depression, learning what’s normal and how to cope with difficult feelings

  • Heal from traumatic experiences, such as bullying

  • Become more resilient and able to cope with problems in school and family life

  • Support personal development to aid transition to independent adulthood

  • Make healthy life decisions

It Takes Practice Counselling Red Deer
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