Therapy for Teens
Helping teens connect with their true selves and confidently navigate their relationships, their education, and their future.
You’re ready to:
Feel comfortable standing in your own skin.
Navigate your relationships with parents, friends, and significant others while holding true to yourself.
Feel clear and confident about who you are and what you want.
Break the anxious thought patterns that you know aren’t productive.
Hold healthier, loving boundaries that protect your mind and your heart.
No longer feel controlled by your emotions.
Be confident that you can be “OK” even if life around you doesn’t feel that way.
Embrace your own power and understand how to change the behavioral patterns that keep you stuck.
Does this sound like you?
You can’t stop comparing yourself to other people.
You have the sense that you are running in a direction that someone else picked for you, and it’s not clear that you even like how your life would look or feel if you got there.
You’re spending so much time in your own head that it feels impossible not to overthink and second-guess yourself at every turn.
You feel that you don’t fit in. It’s hard for you to connect with people, let alone show your true self.
You work hard in school, but you sometimes think that you could be working smarter and having more time left to do what you want to do.
Although most people would envy your achievements in or out of school, you live with a constant sense of unease and anxiety.
You understand that this is your life to live, but you are having repeated conflict with your parents and would like to have more productive conversations to support your independence.
You would like an ally in exploring your sexual orientation or gender identity.
You have an intuitive sense that you are missing out on something – that there is a better, happier, more fulfilled version of yourself that you can’t quite reach.
You sometimes feel that you are controlled by your emotions, with little understanding in the moment of what you are feeling or how to explain it to others.
The struggle to express what you feel or want to other people in your life leaves you feeling unsatisfied, misunderstood, and alone.
Profound self-discovery and empowerment are possible in therapy.
One of the superpowers of being an adolescent is having a brain that is flexible and still growing, which allows for the ability to learn new things and enact new behavioral patterns that can help you live the life you want.
Here at Minds Matter, we subscribe to the science that shows adolescence is a period of developmental opportunity. With a compassionate approach and a safe space to explore your thoughts and feelings, let’s work together to empower you to not just survive but thrive!
In therapy, we’ll examine both your current experiences and your past ones in order to do that. By understanding how past experiences have influenced and programmed you for how you act, feel, and think today, we can unlock ways to help you change those things at their core. This frees you to create a future of your own choosing — one that aligns with your authentic self.
At Minds Matter, we don’t approach your therapy sessions with our own agenda. Instead, our time together is guided by your goals and what you bring to each session. With a focus on effective, evidence-based therapies, we seek what works in order to offer new perspectives and push the boundaries of comfort to help you experience real growth.
Our goal is that you leave each session with something tangible to apply to your day-to-day: something to think about, something to try, something to read, or another tool to begin making the small tweaks that add up to big change.
Frequently Asked Questions
WHAT ARE INDIVIDUAL THERAPY SESSIONS LIKE?
During the first few sessions, we will talk about the struggles that bring you to therapy, your history, and define your goals. Our therapists at Minds Matter have a real-life, practical, and straightforward approach. This means we will be actively involved in our sessions, helping you to achieve your goals.
HOW LONG WILL I NEED TO BE IN THERAPY?
How long you will be in therapy depends on your needs. The research suggests that most therapy clients feel improvement in 12 - 15 sessions. Some clients feel better enough that they graduate within that time. Others find that they enjoy the process of therapy and want to continue as their lives change and evolve. Our goal is to help you meet your goals as soon as possible. As long as therapy continues to be helpful, we’ll be here to support you.
HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS WILL WORK FOR ME?
While we can’t make guarantees, we can tell you that we know growth, healing and change are possible. We see it everyday as we witness our clients evolve and grow closer to the lives they want to live.
Study after study has shown that the quality of the relationship between client and therapist is the most reliable and the most powerful predictor of a positive outcome in therapy, which is why we offer a free consultation to ensure your prospective therapist at Minds Matter is the right person to help you.
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Contact us to schedule a free consultation. It’s important that you feel comfortable with your therapist, and we will help you figure out if we are the right fit for you.