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Teen & Adolescent Counselling

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.

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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

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