Therapy for Teenagers: Why Come to Therapy as a Teenager?

Adolescence is an important stage of growth with significant emotional, social, and developmental changes. Mental health issues that present during this time come with unique challenges. Adolescents today navigate school pressures, social relationships, family dynamics, extracurriculars, and future planning. Biological changes shape self-esteem and body image. Teenagers who are struggling are often looking for connection, in balance with growing autonomy and the need to develop a sense of identity. Therapy for teenagers is designed to provide adolescent clients with tools to cope with difficult emotions and experiences, develop greater insight and self-awareness, and improve their relationships with self and others.

Therapy Areas for Teens

NY Therapy Practice has a team of therapists who work with teenagers navigating depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and trauma. We also work with teens with experiences outside those categories, such as:

• Social anxiety

• Body image issues

• Bullying 

• Gender & sexuality 

• Academic stress

• Future planning 

• Chronically online 

• Conflict in peer or family relationships 

• Adoption 

• Grief & loss

• Substance use

• Anger 

• Relocation

• Phobias

• Compulsive behaviors 

Habits and Behavioral Therapy 

Behavioral therapy can offer practical tools for coping with stress, regulating emotions, and changing habits in your daily life. This may look like integrating mindfulness practices, working collaboratively on developing a morning or evening routine, or trying a new activity in small doses. 

Family Therapy

Family therapy can be used to help strengthen relationships in the family unit, repair conflict, and gain strategies to communicate more effectively with one another. We work with teenagers and offer adjunctive family sessions when indicated and also provide family therapy exclusively.

Consistent therapeutic support can be beneficial to teenagers in a range of circumstances. Our goal at NYTP is to offer teenage clients a personalized therapy experience that offers healing, growth, and change.