Counseling for Teens

A picture of a teen girl with a back pack overlooking a city. We are a counseling service in Charlotte, NC who provides counseling for teens struggling with depression and anxiety.

Life feels like being thrown out of a boat without ever learning to swim. Or being at the bottom of a 15 foot hole that feels like a 30 foot hole. Your parents are supportive but they don’t really get it. They don’t get that it takes all the strength you have to just open your eyes or get out of bed. Everyone keeps telling you “it get’s better” but you are not certain that’s true. That feels really hard to believe right now. 

 

Others act like you are being dramatic or selfish when you can’t bring yourself get up and do things. They don’t know how overwhelming the emotions become. Because you work so hard to hide it. You feel like you should be able to figure this out. And you keep trying to, but just end up feeling lost and confused.

A picture of a teen boy taking a picture with a camera. We are a counseling practice who helps teens feel happy again. We help teens decrease depression symptoms to find joy again and help manage anxiety symptoms.

There are so many things you want to do in your future but the fear of failing is paralyzing. 

 

Some people at school seem to be sailing through life so easily. Is it true or are they just better at hiding their struggles? You just aren’t sure. 

 

A picture of teen kids smiling and laughing with paint on their face and hands. We are a counseling practice that helps struggling teens feel happy and at ease through CBT.

You are glad that you have friends that understand you and who get it. But they struggle with the same things and don’t really know how to help past listening and being a good support. And you need more than that right now. 

 

You know it would be helpful to talk to someone, to see a counselor. But life is just so busy. Everyday after school is filled with activities and clubs. It leaves little time for much else.  But the longer this goes on the harder everyday gets. And you are ready to no longer just be stuck in survival mode. You know you would capable of so much if you could just get this figured out. 

 

School teaches you a lot about math and science and how the world works. Maybe its also time to learn how emotions and the brain works. To learn those daily life skills that everyone should learn because let’s be honest, LIFE IS HARD SOMETIMES. The good news is there are things we can do to make it suck a little less and feel more bearable.

 

Research shows that overtime anxiety without treatment gets worse. But there are also proven ways to help. Ways of managing the defeating self-talk and calming the fears.

A teen looking up and smiling to represent that teens struggling with depression or anxiety can feel happy again. We are a counseling practice in Dilworth area, Charlotte NC that helps teens manage anxiety and depression symptoms.

Ways of feeling better. 

 

Therapy can give you a different way of approaching the same problems that have been stumping you and keeping you stuck for years. Therapy can teach you not just a different way of approaching your problems but also a different way of approaching yourself. And the best news is once you learn these skills you will have them for life. 



 

You are the expert of your own life. You also don’t have to walk this road alone.

A picture of teens with their arms around each other’s backs as the look out over some mountains with trees. The picture shows that teens do not have to struggle with anxiety and depression alone. We provide therapy for teens in Charlotte, NC. We al…