Growing up can feel like a rollercoaster, with plenty of highs and lows. We’re here to guide your teen through its twists and turns, helping them build emotional strength and find balance along the way.
We’re here to help them navigate the challenges that come their way, offering support and tools to help them grow into their true self.
Therapy at Mississauga Psychotherapy Centre is
Goal Oriented
Evidence based
Client Centered
Adolescence can be a tough time, filled with emotional turbulence, peer pressure, and the challenge of finding your identity. You might be dealing with school stress, changing relationships, or the pressure to fit in, all while trying to understand yourself better. Therapy can help you navigate these struggles by providing a safe space to talk through your feelings, develop coping skills, and gain clarity. With the right support, you can do anything!
Our Adolescent Therapy works towards boosting your teen’sresilience and self awareness.
Adolescence is a time of self-discovery, but it can also bring stress, uncertainty, and ups and downs. Psychotherapy helps teens navigate these challenges by providing a supportive space to explore their thoughts, and experiences. Through therapy, teens can develop healthy coping skills, build self-confidence, and manage anxiety, stress, or difficult emotions. It also helps them improve communication, strengthen relationships, and gain a deeper understanding of themselves. By learning to process emotions in a healthy way, therapy empowers teens to face life’s challenges with resilience and clarity.
Therapy has value for you if you are looking to address:
Your Teen’s Anxiety
As teens grow and take on more responsibility, anxiety can creep in, whether it’s about friendships, school, or the future. Puberty and brain changes can make emotions feel more intense, but therapy helps teens understand their worries, develop coping skills, and regain a sense of control over their thoughts and feelings.
Your Teen’s Trauma
Difficult or painful experiences can shape how teens see themselves and the world. Traumacan leave them feeling stuck, disconnected, or unsafe. We help teens process their emotions, rebuild confidence, and move forward with resilience.
Your Teen’s Life Transition
Adolescence is full of changes, new schools, shifting friendships, growing independence, and body changes. These transitions can feel exciting, but also overwhelming. We provide guidance and support to help teens navigate these shifts with confidence and emotional balance.
Your Teen’s Academic Stress
Balancing school, extracurriculars, and future plans can be stressful. The pressure to succeed, combined with the mental and physical changes of puberty, can lead to anxiety, burnout, or self-doubt. We help teens build time management skills, handle academic pressure, and set realistic expectations for themselves.
Your Child’s Self-esteem and Body Image
During adolescence, self-esteem is often shaped by social media, peer comparisons, and body changes. Teens may struggle with how they see themselves, especially as puberty shifts their appearance and emotions. We help them challenge negative self-talk, embrace body confidence, and develop a strong, positive sense of self that isn’t defined by outside pressures.
Your Substance use
Experimentation and risk-taking are part of adolescence, but substance use can quickly become a way to cope with stress, peer pressure, or difficult emotions. Whether it’s occasional use or signs of dependence, we provide a judgment-free space where teens can explore the reasons behind their choices, develop healthier coping strategies, and regain control over their well-being. With the right support, they can build resilience and make empowered decisions for their future.
Modalities that our therapists are experts in:
EMDR
The science backed technique which is recommended by the WHO for the treatment of trauma is something that we use as per the need of your challenges. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) has proven to be quite powerful and life changing for our patrons. Our therapists have used it successfully to help you with your trauma, triggers, anxiety.
Emotions Focused Therapy
EFT focuses very well on the emotions trapped in your body, it works in a way where you are able to make sense of the sensations that feel out of place and end up bothering us a little too much. Work with your body and mind.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
CBT is probably one of the most popular therapy modalities. Our therapists are able to use it very well to work with your thought patterns, emotions, and address the most complex challenges cognitively.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
CPT is a popular evidence based choice for working through trauma. It is tremendous help to make sense of the root of your cognitions and to remove the ones that come from your traumatic experiences and you are able to have better ownership over your thoughts.
Internal Family System
IFS is gaining popularity at this point since it has proven to change so many lives. You feel like there are several voices in your head because there are, these are all different parts of you. They all have a purpose, a role. With therapy you can make sense of what all they are saying and how to go about doing the best thing.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT is a brilliant form of therapy if you are looking to process your grief or loss, trying to navigate a break up, recovering from burnout or simply working with your ability to put yourself first. Our therapists use it extensively to really help you set an intention and work towards the goals that matter to you.
Hypnotherapy
It is so hard to find a therapist who is registered and offers hypnotherapy. No worries, we got you covered. Hypnotherapy has been gaining popularity because it gets results. Be it trauma, emotional distress tolerance, reconnecting with your real self, Hypnotherapy can help.
Feel free to book a free consultation with one of our therapists to know more about their approach.Â
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Your Young Adult Therapy Session can take place online, or in personat our office located at
4257 Sherwoodtowne Blvd, Suite 200, Mississauga ON L4Z 1Y5.
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