Acute Stress Disorder

This disorder is common among teens who experience traumatic events like school shootings, car accidents or the death of a loved one. The symptoms of acute stress disorder often show up within a month of the traumatic event and include numbness, emotional detachment and dissociation from reality. A teen therapist helps young adults cope with these feelings and choose healthier thought patterns.

Adjustment Disorder

Teens often take distressing life events, such as their parents getting divorced or the loss of a friend, especially hard. Anxious or depressed responses are to be expected, but when these symptoms persist for more than three months, it indicates an adjustment disorder. Teens with this disorder benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy, which empowers them to handle negative stressors in positive ways.

Bipolar Disorder

A teen with bipolar disorder has extreme manic episodes followed by intense periods of depression. These frequent mood swings make it difficult for young adults to maintain friendships and can sometimes produce risky behavior. Therefore, teens need special attention from licensed therapists to learn how to cope with bipolar disorder and properly manage their emotions.

Life Transitions

We all remember how dramatic sudden life changes felt when we were teenagers. Breaking up with a significant other or moving to a new school can feel like the end of the world and lead to poor behavior. A licensed teen therapist uses empathetic listening to understand why the teen is struggling with the transition. Then the therapist develops a personalized strategy for how to successfully cope with the change.

Low Self-Esteem

Many young adults hold themselves back with negative thoughts. They tell themselves they’re not good enough at the thing they want to do, and this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fortunately, cognitive behavioral therapy is incredibly effective at breaking this negative thought cycle. A behavioral therapist helps teens train their brains to react positively instead of negatively to build self-esteem.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Unfortunately, our society overloads teens with information and stress. Because of this, many teens experience intense anxiety symptoms, such as nervousness and restlessness, which inhibit their daily functioning. The good news is therapy offers methods to train the brain away from anxiety and toward relaxed confidence. Teens thrive when empowered with these anxiety-combating tools.

Major Depressive Disorder

Unhappiness and sour moods come and go for teens. However, when feelings of sadness and hopelessness last longer than two weeks, they are symptoms of a major depressive disorder. Other symptoms of depression include feelings of worthlessness, sleep problems, lack of appetite and thoughts of suicide. Major depression is a serious condition and requires prompt treatment from a licensed professional.

Panic Disorder

Teens with panic disorders suffer from recurring panic attacks that happen without warning and disrupt their daily lives. These panic attacks typically involve a racing heartbeat and shortness of breath and may last for a few minutes or multiple hours. Treatment for a panic disorder involves learning to manage one’s breathing and control the symptoms when a teen feels an attack beginning.

Prolonged Grief Disorder

The death of a loved one hits especially hard for teens and young adults who are not as familiar with loss. Prolonged grief disorder occurs when the grief lasts for more than six months and interferes with the teen’s daily functioning. Our teen therapists use empathy and genuine care to help teens with this disorder process their grief and learn to cope with it healthily every day.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder is especially common for teens and young adults because of the intense social pressures they feel. Teens with the disorder experience intense fears of rejection and humiliation, which prevent them from engaging in social activities. Because of this, these young adults need coaching from a professional therapist to develop a more realistic view of social interaction.

Prolonged Grief Disorder

Sometimes young adults develop irrational fears that negatively impact their daily lives. Some common teen phobias include fear of enclosed spaces, heights, germs, illness and death. While these phobias may seem impossible to break free from, our therapists offer hope with evidence-based phobia treatments. We’ve helped countless teens train their brains to overcome their irrational fears.

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Your young adult will thrive with the genuine and empathetic support of a teen therapist. Our licensed professionals specialize in treating anxiety, depression and other common disorders for young adults, and we are LGBTIA+ allies.

We are in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago and provide remote counseling services throughout the region. Please contact us today to schedule a free fifteen-minute consultation.