Counseling of children and adolescents

Counseling of children and adolescents is a process equipped with special psychological methods and techniques aimed at preventing and overcoming various problems of children and adolescents.

Child counseling begins with the establishment of a trusting relationship between the psychologist/psychotherapist and the child. Then the specialist actively evaluates the child's problems, diagnoses the child, determines the level of the child's individual development. The next step is concrete psychotherapeutic  is the identification of problems and their solution. The final stage is the strengthening of the obtained therapeutic result and the prevention of possible recurrences.

Often, based on the peculiarities of the problems, it is necessary to work with the child's parents in parallel.

During child counseling, game methods are used, the purpose of which is to help the child express his feelings, demands, and aggression through play. This method is highly effective in working with the widest spectrum of psychosomatic, neurotic and behavioral disorders. It stimulates the child's self-awareness, contributes to the formation of independence and self-confidence. In addition to play therapy, various methods of art therapy and fairy-tale therapy are also widely used during therapeutic work.

Psychological counseling with teenagers is carried out in case of various psychological problems (for example, phobias, depression, aggressiveness, communication difficulties), as well as for the purpose of professional orientation and guidance. The work is carried out both individually and in group ways, using various psychological methods, enabling teenagers and their parents to overcome this important stage of personality development as successfully as possible.

Often, most parents do not value the psychological problems in the child's life, their causes and expected consequences, or do not accept the fact that something is happening to their child. The existence of most problems is normal and is a necessary part of a child's development. There are, however, problems in which the intervention and help of a specialist is necessary to overcome the existing problems and to prevent the emergence of new problems in the future.

Make sure that the best way to get rid of worries, to provide the necessary help to the child, to solve problems quickly and effectively is to contact a psychologist-specialist on time.