Teen Therapy
Your Teen Is Trying to Be Good at Everything
One B shows up on the report card, and your kid talks about it like the whole semester is ruined.
Honors classes, a sport, the volunteer hours, the right friends: every piece has to look good and look easy.
At 11 at night they’re still scrolling and sizing up how everyone else looks, what everyone else did this weekend, and where they land next to all of it.
Watching your kid run flat out with no finish line in sight is its own kind of hard.
Watch It Spread Past the Report Card
At home, the pressure looks like snapping over small things, sleeping in on Saturday and still waking up worn out, and quietly dropping the club or sport they used to love.
Some of it lands on how they see themselves: their body, the friends pushing them one way, the bigger question of who they are and what they value.
And some of it lands on you, in arguments that circle back every week and a teen who’s sure you don’t get it.
Bring Your Teen Into the Work as a Partner
Therapy for teenagers only works when they feel safe and respected.
I treat your teen as an active partner, skip formal jargon, and talk with them at their level.
With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), my main approach, your teen learns to spot the thoughts driving the pressure, like “one B means I’m failing,” and check them against what’s actually true.
When it fits your teen, I also use EMDR, a method that helps the brain process a painful memory so it hits with less force.
Start With a Phone Call, Then One Hour Together
1. A free 15-minute call with you. We’ll talk through what you’re noticing at home, your biggest concerns, and whether my approach fits your teen.
2. A 60-minute intake with you and your teen together. We’ll go over medical and developmental history, set goals, and lay out the expectations around privacy and safety.
3. Weekly 60-minute sessions, one-on-one with your teen. This is where your teen builds the tools and puts them to use.
Sessions happen in person in Frisco and Plano, or online anywhere in Texas, for teens 12 and up.
Know the Privacy Rules Before Your Teen’s First Session
At that joint intake, your teen hears it from me with you sitting right there: what they share in sessions stays private.
Safety concerns are the one exception: self-harm, harm to others, or abuse always gets discussed openly.
Along the way, I check in with you from time to time so you know how the work is going.
Everyone walks out of that first hour having heard the same rules, at the same time.
What I Listen For Near the End
The timeline depends on your teen, because everybody’s different.
Toward the end, I listen for how your teen talks about their own life, and whether a conflict gets handled a new way.
In session, it sounds something like, “I did think that, but after what we went over, I see it differently now.”
It goes best when you want this, your teen wants this, and the sessions stay consistent week to week.
Get a Free 15-Minute Call, Parent to Counselor
The first step is a free 15-minute phone call with you.
Call me today at (214) 452-5237, or email me at hopenowcounseling@gmail.com.
Book the Parent Call
You Can Come Back Without Starting Over
You finish, and you can still write to me. If something new shows up down the road, I’d rather hear from you again than have you start from the beginning somewhere else.
I mean that as a standing arrangement rather than a nice line to end on.
When a message lands in my inbox, I’m the one who reads it. I’ll write back and ask what’s going on and what you’d want to be different. Writing that first message is the hard part, and it doesn’t have to be a good one.