Teens experience extraordinary stress today. School, peers, athletics, parents, siblings and technology create a pressure cooker making it difficult to manage feelings, communication and moods. Counseling offers teens a place to sort through manage stressors in healthy ways.

Learning to evaluate their own thinking patterns and communicate effectively with others helps teens transition into the next phase of life with ease. While sessions are confidential, counseling with teens includes collaboration with parents.

Young adulthood is also a time of transition. Settling into work, relationships and living arrangements can create unexpected stressors. Counseling can help young adults navigate the transitions.

Common reasons teens and emerging adults come to counseling include:

Relationships
Communication
School stress
Adjustment to independence
Excessive worry
Anger
Depressed mood