SOMETIMES BEING A TEEN IS HARD
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figure life out on your own
With mental health issues common with teenagers, proactively addressing mental health issues when they arise can avoid a lifetime of mental health challenges. All teenagers can benefit from psychotherapy because it can help them better understand and manage their moods and feelings in a healthy way.
Psychotherapy and Counseling Services for Teens
Areas of Specialization for Teens
Psychotherapy and Counseling Services
Dr. Jenny Marshall's counseling approach is interactive and collaborative, with an emphasis on building on strengths and skills that can translate into everyday life.
She uses a variety of therapeutic approaches, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a type of psychotherapy that is often used to treat anxiety, depression, and other mental health problems. In cognitive-behavioral therapy, she takes a collaborative approach with clients to identify patterns in thoughts and behaviors that lead to distress. She and her clients work together to challenge those patterns, such as negative thoughts about oneself or the world.
Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental illnesses. They are both related to an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy as a treatment, using cognitive behavioral therapy and other forms of therapy. Her treatment aims to change negative patterns of thinking or behaviors by teaching new ways of thinking or doing things.
Communication Skills
Communication skills are vital for success in life. Communication skills help individuals to understand what makes people tick; empathize; and motivate them.
Dr. Jenny works with clients to improve their communication skills using a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and other therapeutic modalities. Learnings and insights are applied and tested in the time between sessions, allowing clients the opportunity to apply their new communication skills to real-world situations.
Finding and Building Healthy Relationships
It is common for individuals to find themselves within a negative or toxic relationship and start to reevaluate what they want from life. Some individuals avoid the hassle of maintaining a relationship and let it fail. That said, establishing and building a healthy relationship can be taught.
Dr. Jenny works with her clients to establish and maintain open and honest relationships.
Transitioning to High School
The transition to high school is often a stressor causing mental health issues for teens. Depression and anxiety are common for teens as the stress of navigating a new environment, the importance of grades, and new friendships and activities can be overwhelming.
Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy and counseling services to support teens before, during, and after making the transition to high school to help make the transition as smooth as possible for the student and their family.
Transitioning to College
For many teens, leaving for college is a significant life transition that becomes a stressor causing mental health issues. Teens often struggle between deciding to work or join the military post-graduation, or with selecting and attending a college or university. Leaving the family home and being distanced from family, friends, and their childhood community often introduces a new set of stress. In addition, the responsibilities of living on their own can be a cause of stress. All of these stressors can lead to mental health issues such as anxiety and depression.
Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy and counseling services to support teens before, during, and after making the transition from high school to college or university or work to help make the transition as smooth as possible for the student and their family.
Type 1 Diabetes Mental Health
Type 1 diabetes often leads to mental health challenges for many people. Having diabetes can be stressful in itself, but it can also affect your mental health. The condition is known to cause or worsen depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
Dr. Jenny, a Type 1 diabetic, has extensive experience working with diabetics in a psychotherapeutic as well as a clinical setting. She works with a range of diabetic clients, from those newly diagnosed and striving to understand and adapt to their illness to clients dealing with aspects of life such as dating and relationships while diabetic. Her clients become more adept at managing their diabetes as well as addressing the mental health challenges that often arise from being diabetic.
Chronic Illness Mental Health
Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, asthma, and arthritis have been linked to mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. A study from the University of Manchester found that those with chronic illness are three times more likely to develop mental health problems. The best way to support those with a chronic illness is by offering psychotherapy and counseling services for them so they can learn how to better cope with their illness.
A recent study conducted by the University of Alberta, Canada, found that psychotherapy and counseling services improve mental health in patients with chronic pain. The study, which was conducted by University of Alberta's Department of Health Services Organization & Policy, compared the mental health of chronic pain patients who received psychotherapy and counseling to those who did not. The study found that the chronic pain patients who received psychotherapy and counseling were more likely to have improved mental health outcomes.
Dr. Jenny, a Type 1 diabetic, has extensive experience working with individuals whose mental health has been negatively impacted by chronic illness and chronic pain. She helps her clients become more adept at managing the mental health challenges that often arise in conjunction with chronic illness and chronic pain..
Trauma and Grief
Trauma is often a psychological effect of a terrifying event that is often followed by intense fear, helplessness or horror. For someone who has experienced trauma, psychotherapy and counseling provide a path to recover.
Dr. Jenny works with individuals with trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a mental health issue that can develop after someone has experienced or witnessed a life-threatening event.
In addition, Dr. Jenny provides psychotherapy and counseling to support individuals and families through the process of grieving with clinical support and guidance to help manage feelings and emotions. Grief is typically associated with the death of a family member or loved one. Although this is the most prevalent form of grief, it can happen in other instances, such as losing a job or failing at something important to you.
Dr. Jenny understands teenagers
It can be a challenge to find a therapist with the clinical training, skills, experience, AND the ability to connect and understand tweens and teens.
Dr. Jenny is unique in her field, a licensed clinical psychologist with years of experience who can connect with, understand, and help improve the mental health of tweens and teens. She has helped numerous teens, as well as their parents, navigate today's challenges such as social media shaming, online and school bullying, managing video game and mobile device usage, reconciling mental wellness with the intense performance pressures at school and in sports, developing personal boundaries, understanding sexuality and sexual preferences, improving communications, establishing and maintaining friendships, treating eating disorders, and addressing problematic drug or alcohol usage.
Give yourself the care you need to achieve optimal mental health
In-person psychotherapy and counseling services offered in Laguna Beach or Newport Beach
Remote video-based services provided to any state supporting licensed clinical psychologists from the State of California
Individual, family, couples, and group sessions available in time slots ranging from 15 minute to 2+ hours
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