Teen-centered Family Therapy

I help teens and young adults struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, suicidality, family issues, estrangement, identity crises, marginalization, and neurodivergence. These significant challenges often make children feel misunderstood by their caregivers, causing additional distress and a breakdown in the parent-child relationship. I believe that true recovery doesn't happen in a vacuum; children need their parents' active support to truly heal. I primarily use Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT), a structured, emotion-focused model designed to restore trust between the child and their parents. I guide parents to take an active role in their child's recovery through their own dedicated weekly sessions concurrent with their child's individual treatment. In my years of experience working with teens with severe mental health challenges and disorders, I have seen firsthand how parent participation is not only critical to their child's recovery—it can restore the parent-child relationship that might otherwise be lost.