If people find they have difficulty in relationships with peers, they may be experiencing some interpersonal issues or individual mental health concerns. Trouble in peer relationships often becomes a problem during childhood, when children are supposed to be forging friendships with other children their age. Trouble in peer relationships may be a sign of anxiety, depression, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or trauma.
Available Treatment Options
Therapists and counseling interventions for peer relationships for children may include Play Therapy to process trauma and emotions, social skills training, communication techniques, or other specified therapeutic processes based on their diagnosis.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Peer Relationships
Cycles of Life Counseling has added teletherapy services. Protect and care for your mental health and well-being while you protect and care for your physical health. My treatment philosophy is that people want to feel good and live with purpose. Sometimes though, life can feel too big to manage. Sometimes we feel stuck or unable to adjust when "life happens", We may have not learned a better wa...
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( English | 한국어 ) The mission of Glad Heart Counseling & Equipping Center is to encourage and promote restoration in families through healing the heart. Glad Heart CEC is a family-focused center where children, adolescents, individuals, couples, and families are provided with opportunities to understand who they are, cope with their life challenges, and strive for growth that brings about wa...
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Being a therapist, wife and mother I bring knowledge and varied experiences to my therapy. I seek to understand you and your experiences as you see them, and within an empathetic context, we will explore your beliefs and the meaning you make from your experiences. My approach is warm, sincere and uniquely tailored for each client. With humor and kindness, I will incorporate multiple therapeutic...
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Hello, I'm Heather. I like to focus with people of a variety of backgrounds whom have different needs. I often work with individuals, couples and families with complex concerns ranging from learning about yourself to addressing the challenges that hinder you from being able to live the life you desire. Trauma and attachment are common concerns that I see that impact many areas of life. Sometime...
I have a preference for utilizing many of the counseling techniques within cognitive behavioral therapy because I believe that although individuals will undoubtedly experience hardship and difficulty within their lives, I feel that problems with emotions and behaviors are many times a result of how one thinks and feels about a situation. Because I believe that counseling is not a...
*Currently a waitlist for daytime & evening appts* I specialize in treating adolescents and adults with trauma histories, depression, anxiety, PTSD, relationship stressors, abuse, self-esteem, boundaries and other issues. I strongly believe everyone has things to work through. My goal is to support clients in reaching the healthy therapeutic and life goals they identify for themselves, in order...
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I currently treat a wide range of issues including, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, trauma, parenting problems, divorce, and life transitions. I use an integrative approach that includes relational, insight oriented, and behavioral based therapies. I am currently pursuing training in Internal Family Systems therapy. I speak Portuguese....
Today's society can be very overstimulating and can make it hard to focus on our inner experience of emotions. Sometimes we need an opportunity to slow down and process whether our feelings, thoughts and behaviors are helping or getting in the way of where we want to be as - as a person and in relationship with others. Children are equally as overstimulated and can thus struggle turning inward,...
