The Center for Family Counseling

ADOLESCENT COUNSELING

Adolescent counseling includes talk and activity based counseling and expressive arts for ages 13-17 to assist with behavior, social, school, peer, and life transition difficulties.  Activity therapy entails providing various activities for individuals to engage in for the purposes of facilitating the expression and working through of issues.  Activity Therapy is also used for pre-adolescent children ages 9-12.

Parents/caregivers are involved in the process through parent/caregiver consultations.  Parent/caregiver consultations are used to inform caregivers of general themes or concerns that arise in the teen’s/child’s therapy sessions.  Parent/caregiver consultations also provide valuable information to the counselor about how the teen/child is behaving at home and at school, as well as how the caregiver typically responds to the teen’s/child’s needs.  Additionally, a parent/caregiver consultation is a time when concerns can be discussed with the counselor about the teen’/child’s mental health well-being., This also provides the counselor an opportunity to assist parents/caregivers in learning new skills and techniques to help their teen/child.