teen support

A kind, neutral space for teens

Our teenage years can be hard when we are figuring out a great deal of change all at once. Counselling does not replace support from family or friends but provides an additional opportunity to explore concerns and difficulties in a safe confidential environment with the support and care of a professional.

By engaging in a joint experience with a trained therapist we are able to address past and current difficulties, curb feelings of isolation, support a healthy sense of development and foster personal growth.

FEES AND AVAILABILiTY

  • Overwhelmed & defined by academic expectations or results, struggling to balance school work with daily life, experiencing burnout, high levels of rigidity or lack of routine

  • Outbursts, defiance or active withdrawal, often feeling misunderstood and invalidated due to anger masking underlying feelings of hurt, fear or frustration

  • A constant state of worry, fear or unease without 'real' external threats, an unhealthy state of anxiousness impacting everyday life and functioning

  • Loss of a close relation or friend, processing internal grief and external mourning, complex grief if death was by suicide or homicide

  • Negative thoughts or feelings around body perception, preoccupation with weight or shape, disordered eating, concerns around attractiveness and self- worth

  • Changes of a family unit, lack of communication or miscommunication, exploring family narratives plus cultural, sibling or generational conflict

common reasons for seeking counselling

  • Perfectionism, high levels of self-doubt and criticism, difficulty recovering from mistakes, setting either unrealistic or easily accomplished goals, controlling behaviour, internal self-worth linked to external behaviour

  • Navigating conflict, understanding individual friendships and group behaviour, social media effects of attaining and maintaining friends, gaslighting behaviour, bullying or feeling excluded

  • Discovering traits that are important to your sense of self, exploring private and public identities, social and cultural influences of identity, changes in identity and self-acceptance

  • Feeling unworthy and unable to see value in themselves, a prolonged sense of hopelessness and lack of motivation, non-suicidal self harm

  • Trial separations, divorce, temporary or permanent physical separation due to illness, family crisis, work opportunity or military deployment

  • Raised in a culture different from parents or away from country of origin, blending elements from both worlds into a unique and adaptable identity, struggling with attachment or belonging