Childhood is a critical period of growth, change, and exploration, and navigating it can be challenging for both teenagers and their families. At The Current, we understand the complexities of this transitional stage and offer compassionate, evidence-based therapy designed to support adolescents in their personal development while fostering healthier family dynamics. We believe that effective family work is essential to the child’s success.

Child & Adolescent Therapy: Empowering Kids To Ride the Waves of Life

The child & adolescent years are often marked by a mix of excitement, confusion, and emotional turbulence. Our therapy services are tailored to meet the unique needs of children and teenagers, helping them build effective coping strategies to navigate the challenges they face.

Issues We Addressed in Child & Adolescent Therapy:

• Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating and Body Image

• Emotional Regulation: Managing intense feelings like anxiety, anger, sadness, and frustration.

• Anxiety & Depression: Addressing issues related to stress, worry, low mood, and isolation.

• Trauma: Supporting teens in processing and coping with traumatic events

• Suicidal or Injurious Behaviors: Helping teens build effective coping strategies

• Self-Esteem & Identity: Supporting teens in exploring and developing a healthy sense of self.

• Peer Relationships: Helping teens build positive social connections and navigate peer pressure, especially helping them navigate a world with social media that increases comparisons and risk for negative peer interactions.

• Perfectionism or Academic Stress: Providing tools for managing school-related stress and balancing responsibilities.

• Family Communication Dynamics

Through a combination of individual and family therapy, Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and other creative approaches like Internal Family Systems or play therapy, we help children and teens explore their thoughts and feelings in a safe, nonjudgmental space. We work collaboratively to set goals and create a plan for positive change, building trust and rapport every step of the way. Our therapists that specialize in working with children & adolescents are Elise Smith and Jackie Esser.. The Current does not provide reunification support services, supervised visits, or support during legal custody issues.