Child & Teen Counseling Services

Individual Counseling to help children and teens navigate challenges, life transitions, and relationships

When your child, tween, or teen struggles, the whole family struggles. Our psychotherapists at Mind Body Connect 360 in Ashburn, Virginia strive to create a personable, down-to-earth, accepting, and compassionate atmosphere where children and teens can freely explore their emotions and learn healthy coping skills that will last a lifetime. Learning to understand, express, and manage their feelings more effectively will create the foundation to better cope with life’s challenges. When kids are overwhelmed with emotions, it can interfere with their capacity to develop emotionally, socially, and intellectually to their fullest potential. Children and adolescents come to therapy for a wide range of reasons and a thorough assessment will be completed to determine the best approach tailored to the unique needs of each child and family.

We offer several types of approaches that include cognitive behavioral therapy, insight-oriented therapy, trauma informed mind body therapies, mindfulness-based cognitive therapies, EMDR, and play therapy. These approaches are determined by presenting concerns, needs, age, motivation, verbal ability, and capacity for insight. For younger children, play therapy is a great approach. Play therapy allows children to communicate with the world around them, manage emotions, build relationships and develop coping skills using a language that they understand. Tweens often respond well to a combination of developmentally appropriate therapeutic games and talk therapy. Our approach with teens is using traditional psychotherapy (talk therapy) and therapeutic counseling interventions to deepen their understanding of themselves and create a sense of safety, which enables teens to freely explore feelings and develop healthy coping skills.