Teenage Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
You’ve noticed your teenager has been down lately, having excessive worries, and feeling isolated or disconnected. No matter how much you try to help, it never feels like enough. It’s incredibly hard to watch your child struggle and feel powerless to support them. The good news is that help is available through holistic teenage therapy in Los Angeles, CA.
Many teenagers today are grappling with mental health challenges, including anxiety, loneliness, depression, and social anxiety. They may feel isolated or believe there’s something “wrong” with them. Therapy for teens in Los Angeles, CA offers a supportive space where they can feel seen, heard, and supported by someone genuinely invested in their well-being.
We are dedicated to seeing and accepting all of who your teen is, even the parts they may perceive as “bad.” All we want is to prepare them for future challenges while supporting them in feeling better, reconnecting with themselves, and enjoying life again.
Common Challenges Teenage Therapy Can Help With
Teens are at a unique developmental stage. They’re exploring who they are and trying to make sense of their identity, including their roles within friendships, family, and relationships.
Each adolescent comes to therapy with their own goals and concerns, but common challenges we work with include:
Emotional regulation difficulties
Start Teenage Therapy in Los Angeles, CA—Begin Your Healing Journey Today
It’s possible for teens to find joy, balance, and personal growth—don’t delay the healing process! Taking the first step can feel scary, but we’ll be by your teen’s side through the entire journey.
How Teenage Therapy Can Help You
Through therapy for teens in Los Angeles, CA, we offer a compassionate and nonjudgmental space where we treat your teen holistically. We’ll work with them to explore the impact of their past experiences and help them build on what works, while letting go of what’s keeping them stuck.
Your teenage therapist will encourage your teen to be open, vulnerable, and honest. Lasting healing happens when we bring both conscious and unconscious beliefs, thoughts, and emotions to light.
In therapy for teens, we begin by building a safe, grounded therapeutic relationship. From there, your teen can grow awareness of their emotions and how those emotions influence their behavior. Together, we’ll work toward emotional processing, helping your teen move forward in the therapeutic process—and ultimately heal with strength and authenticity.
Holistic Teenage Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
We take a holistic approach to treatment, honoring your teen as a whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our therapists draw from multiple therapeutic modalities to guide their work, tailoring each session to your teen’s individual needs, goals, and emotional experiences.
We are informed and thoughtful about the following approaches and incorporate aspects of them to enrich and support your teen’s therapeutic experience:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is particularly helpful to treat trauma in teens, using bilateral stimulation—such as eye movements—to support the processing of traumatic memories. It’s a great alternative to talk therapy that helps reduce distressing responses and triggers.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Through psychodynamic therapy, we explore your teen’s past experiences and—when appropriate—family dynamics to better understand how they influence present-day emotions, behaviors, and coping patterns.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS suggests that we are made up of different “parts,” with our Self regulating them. When some parts are experiencing more hurt than others, this approach helps reduce suffering by bringing all of our “parts” together in the healing process.
Somatic Therapy
Many of our emotions and thoughts manifest in the body. Somatic therapy helps explore physical sensations through mindfulness, breathing exercises, and grounding to support awareness and emotional regulation.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Through an attachment-based approach, we explore early attachment experiences with primary caregivers and how they shape a teen’s ability to form healthy relationships. Building a trusting relationship with the therapist is crucial to the healing process.
Get Started With Teenage Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
If you’re ready to support your teen’s healing, we’re here to help! We truly care about them, and our goal is to support them in becoming whole and happy again.
Option 1:
Book a free consultation
Start with a 15-minute call with our Care Coordinator, where you can share your questions and help us understand what you’re looking for.
Option 2:
Fill out our form
Complete our online intake form, and we’ll help you find the therapist who’s the best fit to support your teen and your family’s unique needs and goals.
Meet Our Teenage Therapists
Get to know our holistic team and how a teenage therapist can help your teen with strength and compassion.
Natalie Beltran
Natalie works to explore each story with warmth, curiosity, deep respect for lived experience — and a little humor when it helps.
Jenny Chandler
Jenny takes a warm, collaborative approach rooted in somatic psychotherapy, attachment theory, and a strengths-based lens.
Isabel Kindberg
Isabel uses principles of trauma-informed care and harm reduction to work towards healing with authenticity, humor, and directness.
Tatiana Kovalsky
Tatiana supports healing on all levels—mind, body, heart & spirit—helping each person step into a more empowered, embodied self.
Teenage Therapy FAQs
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The best therapy for teens depends largely on their specific difficulties (e.g., anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, trauma). As such, psychodynamic therapy can help teens better understand their emotions and inner world, somatic therapy can be effective to manage anxiety, mood disorders, and stress, and EMDR is highly successful for trauma.
Other approaches, such as art therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), can also be beneficial and are part of our services. We often integrate multiple modalities to best support your teen’s needs.
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Anxiety is a common concern in teenagers, affecting around 1 in 5 adolescents. We understand, as parents, how overwhelming it can feel not knowing how to support your teen.
Unfortunately, it’s not something you can “fix” for them; anxiety is a part of life, and it’s something all of us need to learn to cope with. But you can definitely support them in doing so.
Some helpful tips include:
Validate their feelings and worries
Remind them that they’re not alone, and other teenagers feel that way as well
Show them love, patience, and empathy
Seek professional support for them
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Absolutely. Fortunately, as mental health awareness continues to grow, the stigma around therapy is decreasing. It’s not only okay but also necessary for your teen to receive treatment if they’re struggling.
In addition, the teenage years are a highly transformative period that can bring emotional turmoil—and finding a way to help them navigate those years is also a way of caring for them.
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It’s important to remember that sometimes, the support a teen needs extends beyond what caregivers can provide alone—and that’s okay. Your role still matters deeply.
Helpful steps include:
Creating a safe, judgment-free space for open and honest communication
Practicing active listening to understand their perspective
Validating their emotions to build connection and trust
Encouraging self-care and healthy coping outlets
Setting clear, consistent boundaries
Seeking professional support
Work With a Counselor for Teens in Los Angeles, CA
We take your teen’s well-being to heart. We want nothing more than to see them become whole and happy again. Contact us if you’re ready to take this step together!
Other Services We Offer at Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy
Our team of caring therapists offers a variety of mental health services to support you and your family. We provide both online therapy and in-person sessions in Los Angeles, CA, and across the state. We also offer affirming care for LGBTQ+ individuals and LGBTQ+ couples.
Start your therapy journey alongside a trained teenage therapist. Or, learn more about our other services, including anxiety treatment, depression treatment, EMDR, trauma therapy, eating disorders, and more.
If you have any further questions, visit our FAQs page or contact us directly.