How Teen Counseling Can Help Your Teen
Do you remember your teenage years? Adolescents are changing both inside and out. There are shifts in friends, hobbies, interests, and relationships with families. It’s almost like teens are one person one day and then a different person the next day. This can lead to increased stress and mental health struggles.
All of this has been exasperated in recent years after the pandemic. In 2021, the US surgeon general reported that 1 in 3 teens are currently experiencing signs and symptoms of hopelessness. Teens process mental health in a variety of ways.
For some teens, the signs and symptoms are very obvious. For other teens, it is kept more hidden. Some teens tend to withdraw and this can be very frustrating for parents. They typically only give one-word answers when asked about how they are doing. This can lead parents to wonder what is going on. Parents want to help their kids live happy and healthy lives.
Teen Counseling Can Help
One of the best ways to help teens who are struggling with anxiety, stress, and depression is through counseling.
Teen Counseling Can Help Improve Your Teen's Mood
If your teen is struggling with anxiety or depression then therapy can help. Therapy gives your teen a place to talk and process emotions. Talking about life and the mental health problems your teen faces gives your teen a helpful place to develop more positive feelings. The support that teens find in therapy sessions helps your teen have a safe place to talk.
Counseling Can Improve Your Teen's Self-Esteem
Teens have more challenges than ever before. Social media use and always being connected to a phone may be affecting your teen causing them to feel bad about themselves. Teens are facing constant comparisons and challenges that can increase depression and lower self-esteem. Therapy gives your teen support to identify their strengths and increase confidence in handling challenging feelings. Therapy can benefit teens by giving them positive actions and behaviors to practice.
Teen Counseling Helps Your Teen Learn New Skills
Counseling helps your teen learn coping skills to deal with anxiety, the stigma of depression, and more. Teens deal with increasing stress and therapy sessions can help a teen cope by learning new ways to breathe, relax, and change troublesome thoughts. New coping skills help teens carry what they learn in counseling sessions into their daily life improving communication at home with family, at school, and with friends.
Counseling Helps Your Teen Work Out Problems
Counseling sessions can help your teen and family understand what is going on, how these problems came to be, and learn how to achieve the future that your teen desires. The support of a trained professional can help your teen develop the skills needed to handle anxiety, depression, and other obstacles. The skills that your teen learns in therapy can continue into adulthood.
Teen Counseling Helps Your Teen Find Their Strengths
One of the biggest benefits of therapy is that it helps teens find their strengths and what they do well. Meeting with a therapist helps your teen learn what they do well, how they already successfully handle emotional problems, and how they can build on their strengths to handle the obstacles that life throws their way effectively.
Counseling Services Can Benefit Your Teen
At Ember Counseling Atlanta, therapists help teen boys get their needed help. Ember Counseling Atlanta offers individual teen counseling sessions and family therapy both in person at the Midtown/Buckhead office or online through virtual appointments.
If you're ready to help your teen get the help he needs, reach out to my Atlanta, GA practice today for a free consultation call!
Begin Teen Counseling in Atlanta, GA
Being a teen can be complicated. Don’t let your teen struggle alone. At my Atlanta, GA counseling practice, your teen can find additional support and coping skills he may need with teen counseling. Follow these simple steps to get started:
Contact us to set up a free teen counseling consultation.
Begin teen counseling with Ash Blanton, Teen Therapist in Atlanta, GA
Start to see your teen’s positive actions and behaviors.
Other Services Offered at Ember Counseling Atlanta
Teen Counseling isn’t the only service I offer at my Atlanta, GA counseling practice. I provide in-person and online counseling services in Atlanta, GA for the whole family including anxiety therapy, depression therapy, and family counseling. I also provide an Intensive Three-Day Counseling Workshop for those who want to speed up the healing process. Check out Ember Counseling Atlanta’s blog and FAQs for more information!
