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Relationships & Family

Teen Therapy

Support for adolescents navigating emotions, stress, and identity

Therapy can help teens feel more understood, more equipped, and less alone while they move through a demanding stage of life.

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When This Can Help
  • Your teen seems overwhelmed, withdrawn, irritable, or shut down
  • Anxiety, depression, trauma, or conflict are affecting daily life
  • Your teen is struggling with self-esteem, identity, or transitions
  • You want support that feels both compassionate and practical
Support May Include
  • A supportive space for teens to process emotions and challenges
  • Skill-building for stress, coping, communication, and regulation
  • Thoughtful collaboration with parents when appropriate
Good Match For

Teens and parents

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Teens often face a complex mix of academic pressure, emotional intensity, social stress, identity development, and changing family dynamics. Even when they want support, it can be hard for them to know how to ask for it.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

Our therapists work to create a space where teens can feel respected and emotionally safe. We balance warmth and structure while helping them build coping tools, self-understanding, and healthier ways to communicate and respond to stress.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to teen therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Logan Rolle, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor. Logan is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Logan Rolle, APCC

Associate Therapist