What's your experience with children or adolescents?
Therapy with Children:
We have specialists for every age and stage across the lifespan. Our child therapists often engage through play, creativity, and movement. Your involvement as a parent or caregiver is essential to the success of your child’s treatment. Your first step will be a comprehensive intake with your child’s therapist so that we can get to know your child’s strengths and areas for growth. We view parents as important experts on their children, and therefore as an essential member of the team, as we collaborate to create a plan to help relieve the distress, to build skills to help your child be more resilient, and to increase the joy and connection in your family.
Therapy with Adolescents/Teens:
Adolescence is a critical time of transition in a person’s life, full of significant change and growth. As children enter this period in their lives they are figuring out who they are while juggling shifting roles in their family, expectations, peer and academic pressures. This time can be turbulent and difficult for the whole family to navigate, often wrought with confusion and frustration. How does one negotiate their identity no longer relating to others as a child, but not yet as an adult? Who do they trust to support them in this endeavor? On this search, teens are in desperate need of compassion, empathy, and an endless amount of patience. Such understanding also must be within the frame of clear consistent boundaries, which is not an easy task for parents juggling myriad personal, professional, and familial relationships.
Many youths are in need of a sanctuary from the struggles, insecurities, and isolation they face, where they can explore who they are with a non-judgmental, outside source. In working with teens, our clinicians first and foremost foster a space where they feel truly safe to open up and trust in the relationship. This is balanced with involving parents, other family members, and persons of importance in the teen’s life as appropriate, in the best interest of the adolescent’s growth and development. Therapy can help teens and adolescents develop a more secure and healthy identity and understanding of themselves, improve communication skills, and resolve conflicts both inside and outside the home.
Our clinicians are specialized in working with teens and adolescents on a variety of issues including:
Parent-Child Conflict
Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Poor Communication
Interpersonal Difficulties
Defiance and Acting Out
Academic Struggles / Performance
Issues of Identity
Risk-Taking Behaviors
Withdrawal, Sadness, & Loneliness
Substance Use
Peer Pressure & Relationship Problems
Self-esteem Building
LGBTQ Identity Issues
Stress Management
Washington Psychological Wellness is a boutique-style mental health clinic located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Our counselors, therapists, and psychologists have a passion for helping members of the Montgomery County, Maryland community fulfill their mental health & wellness goals. Our therapists provide an integrative, holistic, therapeutic approach to treatment and have specialized knowledge and training in individual, adult, adolescent, child, couples, and family therapy and the treatment of various mental health concerns. We value honesty, authenticity, integrity, inclusivity, and equal respect for ALL individuals. Whether you are facing anxiety, depression, OCD, eating concerns, low self-esteem, divorce, anger problems, bipolar disorder, lack of motivation, mood disorder, social phobia, ADHD, grief, loss, PTSD, trauma, personality disorders, LGBTQ-related concerns, or just overall life dissatisfaction, our therapists are here to help. Washington Psychological Wellness is currently accepting new clients. We are proud to offer HIPAA-compliant telehealth (online therapy) appointments. Contact us now to schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation!