Counseling teens is a great privilege.  Kids today are under enormous pressure to accept the standards and lifestyle that is promoted by the TV, the internet, and the world around us.  A teen’s primary goal is to be understood and feel loved.  Often with our busy lives and paying the bills, certain needs go unmet, or are overlooked in our teenagers.

Counseling is about helping teens not use their behavior as a way to communicate their feelings, but to learn to verbalize what is going on inside themselves.  It is about stopping self destructive behavior and helping the teen find healthy ways to build their confidence and self-esteem.

Teen counseling always involves working with the whole family.  Appropriate patterns of communication and affirmation need to be developed.  And finally, helping the teen see themselves as a unique and wonderful child of God, made in His image, accepted and forgiven.