Teenage Therapy

We guide parents and guardians in engaging teenagers in therapy by coming to therapy with them.  

Please inform your teen that we integrate EFT-C therapy for parents and teens to strengthen the attachment between your teen and the parent, and we also work on strengthening parents so your teen feels this inevitable improvement. Please frame going to therapy as direct support to you, the parent as teens going to therapy improving themselves are a direct support to parents.

If your teen wants to attend therapy by themselves we encourage this.

Seeking therapy as a teenager is a sign of amazing resilience, maturity, insight, advocation. Teens may be covered by their parent's benefits. If you have a good relationship with your parents, your parents are supportive, you are aware that your parents have benefits, please ask them if you are covered under their plan. If they do not have benefits you can ask your parents if they have the capacity to get benefits privately. 

If you have time, and are of legal working age, you can look for a good job that includes benefits. 

For teens who do not have coverage under their parents, please contact us for sliding scale fees we offer on a case-by-case basis if capactiy allows.

To get therapy as a teen, see if your parents have a insurance plan that covers you.

Seeking therapy as a teenager is a sign of amazing resilience, maturity, insight, advocation. Teens may be covered by their parent's benefits. If you have a good relationship with your parents, your parents are supportive, you are aware that your parents have benefits, please ask them if you are covered under their plan. If they do not have benefits you can ask your parents if they have the capacity to get benefits privately. 

If you have time, and are of legal working age, you can look for a good job that includes benefits. 

For teens who do not have coverage under their parents, please contact us for sliding scale fees we offer on a case-by-case basis when capactiy allows.

Although ideal, we remain flexible, as teens may want to come to therapy due to problems with their parents. We guide teens to ask for a guardian they trust to sign  their guardian consent such as a trusted teacher or family member such as an aunt or uncle.  Seeking therapy as a teenager is a sign of amazing resilience, maturity, insight, advocation. In extreme circumstances we will evaluate case-by-case presentations where teens cannot provide a parent, or guardian's consent so therapy can remain accessible to them.

The best therapy for teens is an individualized approach. We combine over 15 approaches of therapy that are the most trusted. We observe your mood, your temperament, where you are in your head space, what you feel like, to create a nonjudgemental, low pressure, no expectations environment so you can decide what's best for you. We design what's called a bio-psycho-social model for your treatment plan, honouring your biology, your social context and your psychology and personality. We honour your cultural differences and see them as strengths. We try if not always to try to get the root of possible problems as quickly as we can for lasting change.