Dallas Whole Life Counseling offers counseling for children and adolescents of all ages. For younger children, our specialists utilize play therapy and other less formal methods to help the child feel comfortable. For older children, such as teens, the specialist utilizes more traditional "talk therapy," similar to the adult process. A number of issues are typically treated in therapy for children and adolescents. A few of these:

In working with children of any age, there is an integration of family issues. Sometimes the therapist may recommend a few family sessions. In general, child therapy views the family as a "system." Although the child as the "identified patient" may be expressing a specific symptom such as acting out at school, therapy seeks to uncover patterns at home or elsewhere that may be inadvertently motivating the child's problematic behaviors or feelings. Treatment that involves treating the family as a whole, in addition to addressing the child's specific issues, tends to be more effective toward long-term change.

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