TEEN COUNSELING IN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

These days being a teenager can be so hard! 

Most adolescents who start meeting with a therapist for teenagers feel lost in life on some level, unsure of how to find their way. Perhaps you can relate. Maybe you are unmotivated to do anything in your free time or you feel like you want to escape your life.

Maybe you are struggling with your friendships, peer pressure, school, and family relationships.

Teen Counseling Can Help You Feel Validated

Counseling for teens helps you work through struggles and understand yourself better. As a teen, you may struggle with connecting with your family and friends and it may be helpful to learn some skills, from a professional therapist for teenagers, to manage emotions and improve your life. 

Having someone to listen to you and help you work through struggles can lead to improved confidence. A counselor can work with you to identify negative thoughts and help you create positive affirmations and better-coping skills. 

If You Are A Parent Looking Into Counseling For Teens

Here are some things for you to consider. In this day and age, teens can have many burdens they struggle to share. Oftentimes, they can learn to express their feelings to a professional therapist and learn skills to improve themselves even if they are not so expressive in the home. Their issues may be related to low self-confidence, negative self-talk, bullying, and not feeling listened to. Teens are very responsive to their surroundings and easily influenced by peers and other factors. At Solace Solutions, our therapists for teenagers look at their environment in a systemic manner to better understand what may be driving their issues. The counselor may incorporate Systems Theory and utilize an ecological approach to identify individual, peer, family, school, and community drivers and how these factors impact your teen.

How Teen Counseling Works

Teen Therapy consists of 50-minute, one-on-one sessions that help you work through your concerns. If desired and you as a teen feel comfortable, we can also include family members in your session. In addition to listening, your therapist will ask questions and provide guidance based on their experience, they play an active role. Here’s how it will work step-by-step:

1. First, your Colorado Springs therapist will provide a safe, accepting space so that you will feel comfortable sharing your struggles with them.
2. After you have shared your experiences and hardships the counselor will check in with you on the challenges they are hearing. 
3. Next, your therapist will start by helping you with immediate concerns like managing difficult emotions and tough relationships. 
4. You will also work together to discover what your goals are in teen therapy and to create a treatment plan so you know what you are working towards. Part of that plan may include identifying the top stressors in your life that are making it difficult for you to feel happy.
5. As counseling progresses, you and your therapist can identify what you need from your support system (parents, friends, teachers, etc) to help you maintain the positive changes you have made. 

Let’s Get Started With Teen Counseling in Colorado Springs, CO

If you are a teen and are ready to get some support and feel better don’t hesitate to reach out to us. If you are a parent and it seems like your teen is struggling, at Solace Solutions we are happy to meet with you and see how counseling for teens may be helpful for them. You will have a supportive person to listen to your needs and help you choose the best therapist for you or your family.

1. Call us at 719-625-0472. During the phone call, you can share what’s going on for you and ask us any questions you may have.
2. Start teen counseling with a caring and understanding therapist
3. Get guidance and support so you can make positive changes

Other Counseling Services We Offer In Colorado Springs

Our caring therapists in Colorado Springs offer several counseling options to support you, your teenager, your family, and your relationships. At Solace Solutions we offer anxiety therapy and depression treatment. As well as family therapy, couples therapy, and marriage counseling. These services are available both in person and via online therapy in Colorado.