You’re a person, not a problem to be solved or a broken thing to be fixed. My job as a therapist is to get to know your side of the story and truly understand where you’re coming from. It’s important that we make the changes that you want to make—not the changes that your parents, teachers, or I think are right for you. No worksheets, no checklists, no boring activities.

Because my approach focuses on the person rather than the problem, I have helped teens through lots of hard things. I have helped people with:

• Feeling anxious or nervous all or most of the time

• Worrying about what people think about you so much that it’s hard to make or keep friends

• Having trouble breathing, getting shaky, or zoning out when you get overwhelmed

• Talking about a parent, friend, or grandparent who has died

• Feeling sad all or most of the time

• Thoughts of wanting to die

• Cutting, burning, or hitting yourself

• Discovering your gender identity and sexuality

• Refusing to go to school or stay at school for a whole day

• Having a hard time falling sleep, staying asleep, or staying up too late on purpose

• Not knowing what to do when your parents or siblings yell at you, hit you, or insult you at home

• Having a hard time moving on from a romantic relationship

• Coping with a romantic partner who yells at you, hits you, or insults you

• Figuring out what you want to do for college and beyond and feeling anxious about your options

• Making sense of things that happened to you when you were a kid

• Living life after surviving sexual assault or sexual abuse