Adolescent Therapy in Virginia

Adolescent Therapy

It’s hard being a teen. At A Place to Heal I will meet your teen where they are with total acceptance. I will help them connect with their inner self to become the best version of themselves they can be. I use self-compassion and mindfulness practices along with pieces from various modalities like ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) to be guides on their way to healing and wellness.

Adolescents can play too! I employ expressive therapies with teens as well as children and adults. Play, Sand Tray, and Art Therapies are all engaging modalities to help teens understand themselves more fully and sort out issues using much deeper, larger areas of their brains than cognitive therapies can reach.

At A Place to Heal I provide teens help with

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Low Self-Esteem
• Self-harm
• Suicidal ideation
• Trauma
• ADHD*
• Autism*
• Life transitions
• Social Challenges
• Grief/Loss
• Anger/aggression

*neuroaffirming approach to ADHD and autism

I see neurodivergence as a natural occurrence and a valuable part of a person’s identity, not a problem or diagnosis to be “fixed”. I work with neurodivergent adolescents to help them thrive through their unique strengths and challenges without a goal of fitting them into a neurotypical mold.