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Teen Therapy: Empowering Adolescents to Thrive
Teens today encounter a myriad of challenges, from the rigorous demands of academia to navigating intricate social dynamics while safeguarding their mental well-being. Teens can struggle with their identity, their mood, sleep and performance in many different categories. Managing pressure and communicating their bandwidth and exploring their needs is a toolset that many teens benefit from in therapy. Esther Krohner, LMFT, specializes in delivering tailored therapy solutions, rooted in a solution-focused and an evidence-based approach. Esther can also bring in the voice of the parent to help your teen balance challenging expectations and become more considerate. Informed by years of family therapy with teens who are struggling, Esther is adept at empowering adolescents to confront and overcome a spectrum of issues.
Academic and Social Challenges
Let's be real: Teens face oodles of social and concentration obstacles; bullying, social anxiety, distractibility, academic defeat, all of which can lead to extreme reactions like school refusal. Teens can work with Esther to overcome barriers impeding their academic and social success. With a laser focus on solving the problem, she will collaborate with her teen clients and their parents to identify ineffective patterns and make big positive changes, one step at a time. By nurturing coping strategies that waste no time getting directly to the heart of the issue, Esther can help your teen refine communication skills, establish routines, and foster self-assurance. Walking the line between backing off to promote independence and offering a helping hand can be crazy-making for even the most skilled parent. Esther approaches these challenges with ZERO judgment and a sense of humor to add some relief to how confusing this journey can be.
Promoting Healthy Habits and Managing Mental Health
Many teens and their parents say that they know intellectually what to do, but that getting habits on track becomes a conflict. Esther is skilled at finding motivation and sustainable and realistic goals for parents and teens to work on. She helps teens find ways to manage the ups and downs so that their motivation and confidence are less frustrating. From grappling with sleep disturbances to navigating the depths of depression, Esther provides comprehensive support to adolescents in cultivating healthy habits and fortifying their mental resilience. Drawing upon a wide range of interventions, Esther guides teens in transitioning from ineffective approaches to more adaptive coping mechanisms, empowering them to prioritize self-care and navigate life's challenges with equanimity. This includes communication with adults in their lives and the many distractions that teens face.
Balancing Screen Time and Family Dynamics
How often are you having a conversation with your kid before you realize they are deep in a social media scroll-hole? Screen over-use and family disagreements can significantly impact a teen's emotional well-being and social skills. Esther collaborates closely with teens and their families with her direct approach and focuses on solutions first. Esther, knowing you have tried everything, can help with the more common sense approaches and add to them. She can help build accountability around these approaches and also suggest more “out of the box” and counterintuitive ways to fix this communication breakdown. Through a client-centered approach, she facilitates constructive conflict resolution and helps people think creatively about the reality of living in a screen centric world.
If you're ready to empower your teen in taking charge of their mental health and holistic well-being, reach out to Esther Krohner, LMFT to initiate a consultation and embark on a journey towards personal growth and fulfillment.