Therapy for Preteens & Teenagers
Something has shifted and you feel it. Your teen is struggling, and you're ready to find them real support. You're in the right place.
Therapy offers teens a supportive and nonjudgmental space to process emotions, strengthen self-understanding, and build healthier coping strategies while navigating this important stage of growth and development.
Offering a supportive space for teens to feel heard and understood.
Teens don't always come to therapy ready to talk. Some arrive guarded, skeptical, or pretty convinced that nothing will help. That's okay. The first priority is safety: building an environment where your teen doesn't have to perform okayness, doesn't have to minimize what they're going through, and doesn't have to be further along than they are. Once that foundation is there, real work becomes possible. I use evidence-based interventions of DBT and EMDR to help teens build skills for what they're feeling right now and find a way through the experiences that brought them here.
Areas of Support
What brings most teens and their families to therapy with Bloomwell Counseling Co.
Anxiety & Depression
Helping teens who feel constantly overwhelmed, shut down, or stuck in a cycle of worry they can't turn off.
Relationship Challenges
Helping teens who struggle with conflict at home, difficulty connecting with peers, or patterns in relationships that keep causing pain.
Self-Esteem & Identity
Support for teens navigating questions of identity, self-worth, and who they are becoming.
Self-Harm & Suicidal Ideation
Support for teens who are hurting themselves or having thoughts of suicide, and for the families navigating that with them.
ADHD & Neurodivergence
Support for teens struggling to navigate attention, impulsivity, emotional intensity, and burnout.
Trauma & Difficult Experiences
Increasing understanding of how past experiences are showing up in the present, and building a path through them.
Therapeutic Approach
Structured where it needs to be. Flexible where it matters.
I am intensively trained in DBT through the Treatment Implementation Collaborative and fully trained in EMDR through the EMDR Institute. I have worked with teens navigating some of the most serious and complex presentations in adolescent mental health, including chronic suicidality, active self-harm, and the aftermath of significant trauma. I am not easily rattled, and do not shy away from the hard stuff.
Bloomwell Counseling Co. is an LGBTQ+ affirming and neurodiversity inclusive practice. We work with teens across a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and ways of experiencing the world. Every teen who comes through the door deserves to feel like the full version of themselves is welcome in the room.
At the same time, expertise means nothing if a teenager doesn't feel comfortable in the room. My sessions incorporate warmth, humor when it's welcome, and a genuine interest in who each teen is as a person, not just what they're struggling with. Treatment is paced to the individual. Nobody is pushed before they're ready, and nobody is written off because progress is slow.
Your teen doesn’t have to keep struggling. Neither do you.
Therapy can help teens feel more emotionally supported, confident, resilient, and better equipped to navigate life’s challenges with healthier coping strategies and stronger self-understanding.