Is your child having difficulty with self-esteem, school, peers, or family relationships?

You’re not alone. Teens and parents are dealing with unprecedented levels of stress today. Teens need extra guidance to ensure that they eat, sleep, exercise, stay focused on school, and spend time with family and appropriate peers. They also need to consider future goals and plans while having a balanced life.

As a parent, you might be seeking preventive measures and a trustworthy adult mentor, or you may be dealing with your teen’s anxiety, depression, drug or media use, cutting or eating disorder.

Regardless of the issues that brought you here, you’re concerned about your child’s well-being. We’ve supported hundreds of Marin families who’ve wanted to help their child but don’t know how.

As teen experts and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, we can answer your questions about raising your adolescent. Through creating a collaborative relationship with you and your teen, we foster safety, connection and growth within your family.

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Teen Solutions Therapy
Marin County

Therapist as a Mentor: Leadership for Teens

The essence of leadership is inspiration. We all yearn to be inspired, to have the flame of our passion ignited by someone who believes in us.  Embodied leadership provides this inspiration.  Parents and mentors hold a valuable leadership role. A good parent or mentor inspires through cultivating a teen’s potential, while continually cultivating their own. We're always setting an example.

Of course, a coach or teacher can fill this role, but as therapists, we have the privilege of going even deeper and seeing a teen’s inner world.  We have the opportunity to guide them in developing their identity and creating healthy family and peer relationships.  It's crucial to receive the right leadership in adolescence because it's such an emotional time filled with rapid growth.

However, the most important adults in their lives are parents.  As a parent, you have a narrow window of opportunity to influence your teen before they leave home.  We're here to show you how to make the best of this opportunity, and it all starts with establishing a meaningful connection.

Counseling

Our work with teens and families is Attachment based and influenced by the work of Gordon Neufeld. Attachment is the pursuit and preservation of proximity, meaning your teen wants to be close to you. Positive parental influence and proximity leads to security, while peer influence leads to insecurity.  

Just because peer-orientation is common, doesn't mean it's normal. We live in an unusual time where teens look to each other, instead of their elders, for guidance. When peers come first, a teen's life is out of balance, and they are physically and emotionally at risk. 

​ Parents have the power and natural instincts to create mental health and emotional stability.   They have the ability to keep their children safe.  We support parents to set clear, consistent boundaries, making it easier for teens to make healthy choices and reducing peer influence.   Learn more...