Just Like Adults, Adolescents Can Benefit From Counselling For Teens
Counselling for teens is there to support teenagers during a crucial period in an individual’s development. Adolescents is a time that is often characterized by novelty-seeking, exploration, and goal setting. As well as risk-taking, and interaction with peers. Meanwhile, they are still developing critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Brain scans have shown that adolescents’ brains work differently than adults when they make decisions. Teenagers’ actions are often guided more by the reactive and emotional amygdala. Rather than the still developing logical, thoughtful frontal cortex.
Why Is There A Need For Counselling For Teens?
There are a variety of reasons for someone to come to teen therapy. Some of which include:
- behavioural challenges
- emotional concerns
- mental health issues
- substance use issues
- relationship issues
- traumatic experiences.
- And so much more
Addressing Body Image Issues In Teenage Counseling
Body image is how we see ourselves and how we feel about our bodies. Teenagers are frequently under enormous pressure to conform to stringent, unrealistic, and destructive ideals of attractiveness, body build, weight, and shape.
Not everyone is happy with how they appear or how they feel about themselves. Many individuals wish to alter some aspect of their appearance. However, if this dissatisfaction becomes a constant source of anxiety, and your teen is unable to focus on their other responsibilities it can be indicative of a problem with body image.
The support of a therapist for teens can help provide your teen with the tools and strategies needed to counter social pressure. So that they can begin to feel good about their body again. Having a positive body image is an important aspect of mental wellness.
Exploring Self-esteem Issues In Counselling For Teens
Social media pressure to fit in might cause young people to struggle with self-esteem issues. Teenagers may feel isolated and anxious if they don’t feel accepted (even if validation comes from people they don’t know).
Seeking validation and acceptance from others to feel self-assured and appreciated may become a way of life. As a result, this may impact your teens’ self-esteem, well-being, and relationships.
Our therapist for teens in Sherwood Park, AB can help your teen to explore and address the emotions that are underlying their low self-esteem. Additionally, they can work collaboratively with your teen to help them develop a healthy relationship with themselves.
Coping With Peer pressure In Teen Therapy
The peer pressure that many adolescents endure to fit in with their peer group is sometimes the only way they feel like they belong. As a result, peer pressure can lead to bullying other peers, breaking rules, or engaging in risky behaviour.
Additionally, peer pressure may lead to teens feeling insecure, depressed, and anxious. These feelings of needing to conform can persist into adulthood.
Counselling for teens can help them deal with peer pressure by exploring how they feel about the situation and environment where peer pressure is happening in, exploring their values, identifying and implementing healthy boundaries with peers, and choosing relationships where they feel respected.
While adolescence can be a uniquely challenging period, it can also be an opportunity for positive development and growth.
How Can Counselling For Teens Help?
A therapist for teens can help equip and empower teenagers to:
- Develop self-awareness
- Gain emotion regulation skills
- Obtain distress tolerance skills
- Grow empathy, assertiveness, and communication skills
- Develop and maintain boundaries
- Grow and develop self-compassion
- Gain problem-solving skills
At Onyx Counseling in Sherwood Park, we have seen how the development of tools and strategies can help improve a teen’s overall mood. As well as increase their self-confidence, and improve their self-efficacy and resilience. Thus enabling them to manage life’s current and future stressors.
Start Counselling For Teens In Sherwood Park, AB
- Contact us and receive a call from Onyx within 24 business hours.
- During this call, we will discuss what’s going on and address any questions you may have.
- We will connect you with a therapist for teens that best fits your needs.
- Watch your teen thrive with healthy coping skills.
Other Services Offered at Onyx in Edmonton & Sherwood Park, AB
At Onyx all of our services are available through online therapy to anyone in Alberta as well as in person in Sherwood Park, AB. Our services are not limited to just adolescents. We provide therapy for adults, marriage counselling, EMDR therapy, and family therapy. In addition to therapy for depression, trauma, anxiety, and relationship issues. For individuals and couples, we have intimacy counselling and sex therapy. If you are looking for a support group we also provide group counselling. Our Edmonton therapists are here to support you and your family. Reach out and start getting support for your mental health.
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