teen therapist near tampa

Therapist for Teens

Helping Bright and Busy-Minded Teens Thrive

As licensed psychologists with training in school psychology, we understand the challenging task of managing schoolwork, family, and increasing responsibilities while in high school. Our high school clients often choose to learn coping skills for managing stress from high stakes test taking, stress from high expectations on school performance, friendship and relationship issues, and managing college preparation. We provide teens near Tampa with guidance and reassurance as they navigate their final years of adolescence.

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Things we can work on in therapy for teens:

Understanding their values and who they want to be as a person
Social anxiety or difficulty trying new things
Helping them create healthier habits and better balance in their daily life and routines
Setting healthy boundaries around the many different competing demands in their life
Teaching effective coping skills to help them manage stress and anxiety and other difficult emotions
Navigating a high stress school, job, or home environment
Dating and issues in romantic relationships and friendships
Self-esteem concerns, negative self-talk, and feelings of being “not enough”
Navigating life transitions such as going to college or moving to a new city
Imposter syndrome and perfectionism
Improving executive functioning skills such as organization, time management, and emotional control

Therapy for teens near tampa

Specialized, short-term, and effective solutions to teen problems:

ACT is a science-based model of behavior change. Our high school and college students learn skills and strategies that they can immediately incorporate in their lives. We often focus on the science of genuine happiness, new ways of responding to difficult emotions, how to take the power out of anxiety or ADHD, and how to break free from self-criticism and self-hate.
CBT is a gold standard treatment for many mental health conditions including anxiety and ADHD. We teach our high school and college students to recognize how distortions in their thinking may be creating problems and how to reevaluate them in light of reality, to better understand the behavior and motivation of others, how to use problem-solving skills to cope with difficult situations, and how to develop a greater sense of confidence in their own abilities.
Our psychologists have advanced training in CBT-i and help teens and young adults create healthy sleep routines and improve their sleep. CBT-i is a gold standard treatment for behavioral sleep problems such as difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep and early waking.
EFT is based on the idea that emotions are not the only important factors in our lives, but the key to who we are. We focus on understanding attachment systems, increasing awareness of emotion, enhancing emotion regulation, and transforming emotion. Learning to regulate and cope with difficult emotions is a valuable skill for teens and young adults to have in order to have successful and meaningful future relationships.
Our psychologists have extensive training on behavioral treatment for ADHD. We often work on self-acceptance and core values, motivation, organizational skills training, and emotion regulation to increase productivity and success.
SPACE is an evidence-based treatment for teens with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. SPACE is particularly helpful for teens who refuse to participate in therapy, as only the parent is involved in treatment. The treatment focuses on changes that parents can make to their own behavior, they do not need to make their child change. The two main changes that parents learn to make in SPACE treatment are to respond more supportively to their anxious child and to reduce the accommodations they have been making to the child symptoms.

therapist for teens near tampa

Dr. Kristin Edwards is a Licensed Psychologist in Florida.

Dr. Edwards specializes in youth counseling near Tampa, helping adolescents and young adults manage stress and anxiety related to major life transitions, relationships and friendships, school and work burnout, perfectionism, and self-doubt.

She provides psychological evaluations and mental health checkups to help identify disorders such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, anxiety, panic, and OCD, depression, and insomnia.