Being a teenager is one of the most developmentally and emotionally challenging times of a person’s life. It can feel easier to navigate when you have ample support around you.

I specialize in supporting adolescents with managing their relationship to themselves and others. In my practice, I can either support your teenager on a one-on-one basis in individual therapy, or I can work with you (the parent) and your adolescent in dyadic family therapy. As a parent, you will want to consider how involved or un-involved you want to be in your child’s therapeutic process.

In adolescent individual therapy, step one looks like cultivating a safe container in which your teenager can feel heard and understood. Once trust has been established, the second step looks like deepening the work into tangible goals that your teenager want to grow for themself.

Some areas I have a lot of practice in include: developing communication and inter-relational skills, such as self-assertion, boundary-setting, and supporting adolescents with expressing their wants and needs in a satisfying way, cultivating identity development, “coming out” processes among LGBTQ+ youth, and managing big feelings such as anger, anxiety, self-consciousness, and grief.

I offer 50-minute sessions on a weekly basis.

My areas of specialization with adolescents include:

• Anxiety

• Communication and inter-relational skills

• Identity development

• LGBTQ+ support and “coming out”

• Marginalized identities, including navigating racism, homophobia, and bullying

• Perfectionism

• Self-regulation and navigating “big feelings”

• Self-confidence and self-acceptance

If you are the parent of a teenager who could benefit from working with me, please reach out to me here to schedule a consultation with me. Please specify if you would like me to work on a one-on-one basis with your teenager, or if you would like to work with me in dyadic family therapy.