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Therapy for Tweens (Ages 10+)
Welcome to the tween years: bigger feelings, trickier friendships, higher expectations, and a kid who somehow needs you more and wants you less.
Therapy gives tweens a place to understand what they’re feeling, figure out who they’re becoming, and learn how to handle the challenges of middle school and growing up.
Your previously talkative kid suddenly answers everything with “I don’t know.” Friendships become intense. School gets harder. They’re more irritable, worried, self-conscious, or withdrawn—and they want more freedom while still very much needing you.
It can be hard to know what’s normal tween behavior and when your child needs more support.
What I Help Tweens With
Anxiety, worry, and overthinking
ADHD and executive functioning challenges
School stress and school avoidance
Low self-esteem and confidence
Friendship and peer challenges
Big emotions and anger
Family conflict
Identity and self-discovery
Body image and pressures around food and appearance
Life transitions and family changes
Why Tweens Need Something a Little Different
There is so much happening in the few short years between being a little kid and becoming a teenager. Kids are changing quickly, while parents are trying to figure out when to step in and when to give them room to figure things out for themselves.
Therapy with a tween can’t just be asking, “How does that make you feel?” for an hour (unless you want to hear “I don’t know” approximately 47 times). I use conversation, games, humor, and activities to help kids feel comfortable being themselves while learning about their emotions, building confidence, and developing tools for the tricky parts of growing up.
What About the Parents?
I get 50 minutes with your kid. You get the other 167 hours of the week. Working with you is an important part of creating meaningful change outside of the therapy room.
How involved you are depends on your tween, what brings them to therapy, and what will be most helpful. This is their therapy, so protecting their privacy and trust matters—but they’re also still kids who need support from the adults in their lives.
That balance might include brief check-ins, dedicated parent sessions, or parent coaching. The goal isn’t to tell you everything your child says in therapy; it’s to help you understand and support your tween while giving them a space that feels like their own.
What Can Therapy Help Change?
Therapy can help tweens understand themselves, manage big emotions, handle friendships and school stress, and feel more confident in who they’re becoming.
For parents, it can mean feeling less like you’re constantly guessing—when to step in, when to give space, and what your kid actually needs.
Not sure if it’s “normal tween stuff” or something that needs more support? We can figure that out together.
Therapy for Teens
You spent years teaching them what they need to know. Now comes the scary part: letting them go out into the world and try it for themselves.
The teenage years are about becoming more independent, figuring out who you are, and testing what you’ve learned outside the safety of childhood. Therapy gives teens a place of their own to make sense of that process—and gives parents support as they learn to step back without stepping away.
Your once affectionate kid may now seem irritated by your very existence. They question your rules, reject your advice, and make choices you know aren't going to end well. It can leave you wondering how the kid you raised became this teenager.
Here’s the important part: who they are as a teenager is not who they will be forever.
What I Help Teens With
Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, stuck, or not quite like themselves
Academic pressure, motivation, and school avoidance
ADHD, organization, and increasing responsibilities
Friendships, dating, breakups, and healthy relationships
Family conflict and wanting more freedom
Identity, sexuality, self-esteem, and body image
Depression, isolation, self-harm, and big emotions
Social media, peer pressure, and the world teens are growing up in
College, work, and figuring out what comes next
Why Teens Need Something Different
Adolescence is a practice run for adulthood. Teens need opportunities to make decisions, test boundaries, figure out what matters to them—and sometimes get things wrong—while still having a home and people who love them to come back to.
Therapy gives teens a safe place to talk honestly, learn from their choices, and figure out who they want to be. My job isn't to tell them what to do. It's to help them understand themselves, get curious about their choices, and build confidence making decisions for themselves.
What About the Parents?
As teenagers become more independent, your role changes—but stepping back doesn't mean becoming less important.
I believe one of the most important things you can protect during these years is your relationship with your teenager. When friendships fall apart, relationships hurt, school becomes overwhelming, or they don't know what comes next, your ability to help starts with whether they feel like they can come to you.
The relationship you’ll have with your adult child doesn't suddenly begin when they turn 18. You're building it right now.
Therapy belongs to your teen, so privacy and trust matter. Parent involvement will depend on your teenager and what brings them to therapy, and may include check-ins, parent sessions, or coaching to help you stay connected while giving them the autonomy they need.
What Can Therapy Help Change?
Therapy can help teens understand themselves, navigate emotions and relationships, and build confidence in their own decisions.
For parents, the goal isn't to prevent your teenager from ever falling down. It's building the kind of relationship that makes them want to come to you when they do.
You don't have to have the teenage years figured out. Neither does your teen. We can figure out some of it together.
Therapy for Young Adults
You’re finally old enough to make your own decisions. Now you just have to figure out what you actually want.
Young adulthood comes with a lot of freedom—and a surprising amount of uncertainty. You’re making decisions about relationships, school, work, where you live, and what comes next, often while wondering if everyone else somehow got an instruction manual you missed.
You may feel caught between wanting to be independent and still needing your family, questioning choices you thought you were sure about, or realizing that the life other people imagined for you might not be the one you want for yourself.
You don't have to have your life figured out just because you're technically an adult.
What I Help Young Adults With
Anxiety, overthinking, and feeling overwhelmed
Feeling stuck, lost, or unsure what comes next
ADHD, executive functioning, and managing adult responsibilities
College, career, and life transitions
Dating, breakups, friendships, and healthy relationships
Family relationships, boundaries, and changing roles
Identity, sexuality, values, and self-discovery
Self-esteem, perfectionism, and comparing yourself to others
Body image and pressure around food and appearance
Burnout and the feeling that you’re somehow “behind”
Why Young Adulthood Can Feel So Hard
For most of your life, there was a next step. Finish this grade. Graduate. Apply to college. Get a job. Then suddenly, there are a hundred possible directions—and you're the one who has to choose.
Therapy can give you space to slow down, understand yourself better, and separate what you actually want from what you think you're supposed to want. We can look at the patterns, expectations, relationships, and experiences that shaped you while figuring out what you want to carry forward—and what you might be ready to leave behind.
Figuring Out Who You Are Outside of Your Family
Your family is one of the first places you learned who you were, how relationships worked, what was expected of you, and what it meant to succeed, belong, or be loved. Becoming an adult gives you the opportunity to decide for yourself which of those messages still fit.
That doesn't have to mean rejecting your family or distancing yourself from them. It can mean learning how to have a relationship with your parents as an adult, setting boundaries, making your own decisions, and becoming more comfortable being yourself even when the people you love might choose differently.
The goal isn't to become completely independent of everyone around you. It's to build enough trust in yourself that your choices begin to feel like your choices.
What Can Therapy Help Change?
Therapy can help you understand yourself and your patterns, trust your own decisions, build healthier relationships, and feel more confident about the direction you're heading—even when you don't have everything figured out yet.
You don't need to know exactly who you are or where you're going before you start.
Sometimes figuring that out is the work.
Support for Parents
Sometimes you agree that something needs to change. You just don't agree on what, or how.
There is no shortage of advice about how to raise kids. The harder part is figuring out what actually works for your kid, your family, and you—especially when you’re exhausted, worried, disagreeing with your partner, or wondering if you’re getting any of this right.
Sometimes you need practical help with what to do. Sometimes parenting is bringing up things in you that need attention. And sometimes the problem isn’t knowing what to do—it’s figuring out how to do it together.
That’s why I offer several different ways to support parents.
Parent Coaching
When the question is: “What do we do?”
Parent coaching is focused on understanding what’s happening with your child and finding practical ways to respond. We can talk through challenging behaviors, communication, boundaries, emotional regulation, school struggles, or those situations where everything you've tried seems to make things worse.
The goal isn't to give you a list of parenting rules to follow. It's to help you understand your child, think differently about what may be driving the behavior, and develop strategies that make sense for your family.
Parent coaching can be especially helpful when you and your co-parent are generally on the same page but need support figuring out what to try next and how to follow through.
Individual Therapy for Parents
Because you’re a whole person—not just a parent.
Parenting has a way of touching just about everything: your identity, relationships, stress level, confidence, childhood experiences, and ideas about the kind of parent you thought you would be.
Individual therapy gives you a place where the focus gets to be on you. Parenting can absolutely be part of our work, but it doesn't have to be the only part. We can explore anxiety, overwhelm, relationships, boundaries, family-of-origin patterns, life transitions, or whatever else is affecting how you feel and function.
Sometimes supporting your family starts with having a space where you don't have to take care of anyone else.
Parenting-Focused Couples Therapy
Sometimes you agree that something needs to change. You just don't agree on what—or how.
Parent coaching can help you figure out strategies to use with your kids. But when conversations about those strategies repeatedly turn into arguments between the two of you, there may be something happening underneath the parenting problem.
You may have different ideas about discipline, boundaries, consequences, independence, or what your child needs. One parent may feel the other is too strict while the other feels they're too permissive. Your own childhood experiences may shape how each of you approaches parenting in ways you hadn't realized until you were raising a child together.
That's where parenting-focused couples therapy comes in. Instead of only asking “What should we do with our kid?” we also pay attention to what happens between the two of you when you try to answer that question.
And sometimes the issue isn't a disagreement about parenting at all. It's that parenting and running a household have taken over the relationship. One person carries more of the mental or practical load. Conversations revolve around schedules, homework, appointments, chores, and who needs to be where. You’ve become an effective—or maybe exhausted—parenting team, but somewhere along the way, being a couple stopped making the list.
Parenting-focused couples therapy creates space to work on communication, understand each other's perspectives, address resentment or an uneven load, and make the relationship a priority again—while recognizing that parenting is an enormous part of the life you're building together.
So Which One Do I Need?
You don't have to know before you call.
If you need strategies for handling something with your child, parent coaching may be the place to start. If you need space to focus on your own well-being and the ways parenting intersects with the rest of your life, individual therapy may make more sense. And if parenting challenges are getting tangled up in your relationship with your partner, parenting-focused couples therapy may be the better fit.
Sometimes there’s overlap, and that’s okay.
Change Begins with Courage.
Taking the first step toward healing can feel daunting, but it’s also a powerful act of self-care. Facing challenges with honesty and openness allows space for transformation. You don’t have to do it alone—let’s navigate this journey together.