Counseling for Kids and Teens
At Drishti Mental Health, we are honored to work with toddlers, kids, pre-teens and teenage clients. Sometimes, families experience difficult situations like death, divorce, or illness that lead them to reach out for counseling for a child. Other times, parents reach out when they see their child is having a hard time with anxiety, anger, school or other life stressors.
The therapists at Drishti who work with kids and teens have additional training and experience to work with this specific population and utilize a variety of age-appropriate modalities, like play therapy, to support younger clients.
COUNSELING FOR KIDS AND TEENS IN BEND, OREGON
Who should seek Counseling for Kids or Teens?
Here are some of the common reasons someone might call Drishti for counseling for a child or teenager:
Anxiety
Death or other loss
Depression
Difficulty sleeping
Family stress
Feeling down or scared
Frustration or angry outbursts
School stress
Illness (of child or a close person in a child’s life)
Parental separation or divorce
Social concerns
What Does Counseling for Kids or Teens Entail?
Drishti has two amazing child and teen-centered therapy rooms equipped with games, art supplies, dollhouses, dinosaur figurines, and comfy furniture! While sometimes counseling for kids and teens may look a lot like traditional individual counseling for adults but therapists often incorporate interactive interventions to engage kids. People often use the term play-therapy as a general term of how therapists work with kids, but this doesn’t mean a therapist is simply playing with a child or teen client. Play therapy is not just playing with kids! It encompasses a planful and clinically appropriate collection of interventions to meet a child client where they are intellectually and emotionally and to do so in a way that can feel fun for younger clients.
Drishti’s counseling is not one-size-fits-all! Our therapists who work with kids and teens are trained in several modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Play Therapy, Sand-Tray Therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Our goal is to meet our younger clients in a safe space where our therapists are trained to support them in age-appropriate self-expression.
Get Started with Counseling for Kids and Teens!
If you’re curious about counseling for kids and teens in Central Oregon, please reach out to us by phone at (541) 633-4591 or complete the form. After that, we will chat with you to understand your needs, verify insurance, and do our best to get you scheduled with a provider. From there, it’s just about showing up to begin the process. We’ve got you!