Your Teen Is Unrecognizable and Unreachable
There is a way to help them regain their joy.
Teen Therapy for Anxious Teens
Why Can’t You Reach Your Own Kid?
You try the old joke in the car. The one that used to get an eyeroll and a laugh. One earbud comes out. Then goes back in.
Eighteen inches of console between you, and you can’t get across it. By the time you pull into the driveway, you’ve stopped trying.
It breaks your heart, but you’re more worried than hurt.
Your Teen’s World Is Shrinking Fast
Video games all day. Headphones on constantly to drown out the anxiety. They find an excuse for school, for the party, for the team.
Avoidance works, and that’s exactly the trap. It buys an afternoon of relief and shrinks their world a little more every time. And when it stops working, what will they use next? When there’s nowhere left to hide and isolation is the only option.
Your teen can’t ask for the help they need, so the call has to come from you.
Your Teen Believes Every Thought They Have
At this age, they mistake thoughts for facts.
Someone calls your teen a loser and that becomes their reality, repeated to themselves over and over until it’s the truest thing they know.
Shame, lack of confidence, and dread follow. Your teen ends up more miserable than ever.
Adolescence is a natural developmental process, not something anyone can fight or tame. It’s something to understand and work with.
ACT Gives Your Teen an Alternative to Avoidance
I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), taught through metaphors, humor, and real life so your teen actually engages with it.
- Move toward what they want while the discomfort is still there
- Tell the difference between a thought and a fact
- Learn they aren’t a dork just because someone said so
- Go back to school, to practice, to rehearsal, to their friends
- Use skills they reach for on their own, because the skills work
They find they want to use it all the time, because it works.
The Three Phases of Your Teen’s Work With Me
Getting Them On Board
1
Your teen meets someone who respects them exactly as they are. Metaphors, humor, and real life do the work here.
Their guard comes down.
Carrying the Discomfort
2
Your teen learns to be with what feels bad without escaping it. Avoidance stops
being the only tool they own.
Their world stops shrinking.
Explore Your Story
3
Your teen moves toward what matters to them. School, friends, sports, art, music, whatever is theirs.
They’re never home again.
Why Trust Me as Your Partner in Healing
Your Teen Will Actually Talk to Me
Teens engage when they’re treated as collaborators, so the work runs on metaphors, humor, and real-life experience instead of worksheets.
In Practice Since 1998
In practice since 1998, I’m a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a National Certified Counselor.
I Won’t Waste Your Time
Nothing changes if nothing changes, and I’m not the kind of therapist who wants anyone in the chair for five years if they don’t need to be. I focus on results you’ll notice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most parents who call me are in exactly that spot. The first session asks nothing of your teen except showing up, and teens who aren’t pushed tend to come back on their own.
Talk therapy often works on getting rid of the bad feeling first. ACT teaches your teen to move toward school, friends, and the things they care about while the discomfort is still there.
Teens are more comfortable on a screen than most adults are in a waiting room. Your teen meets with me from their own room, anywhere in Florida.
That’s worth finding out on a fifteen-minute phone call instead of over another six months of watching. If it’s ordinary adolescence, I’ll tell you plainly.
You talk, I listen, and you tell me what you’re seeing at home. By the end of the call you’ll know whether this is the right fit for your family.
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Your Teen’s Well-Being Is in Your Hands. Make the Call.
Take the First Step Today
There’s a version of that car ride where you try the joke and both earbuds come out.
Where your teen is smiling, laughing, making jokes, acting silly and goofy.
This is all possible, and all it takes is a call from you. If you don’t call today, will you ever call?
This is a life-changing moment, and it starts with one phone call.
What Happens Next?
- Call (561) 909-7144 or fill out the short form below.
- Schedule your free consultation. No pressure, no obligation.
- We’ll talk about how ACT can help you get your funny, goofy kid back.
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Payments & Services
Services are billed on a session-by-session basis.
We provide superbills for insurance reimbursement and accept HSA/FSA.
No hidden fees – all costs are explained before you begin.
