Trauma Informed Youth Counselling
Young people are faced with ever-growing priorities. With the invention of social media, they are always contactable and connected to their social worlds. Which means their identity is always on show and questioned by their peers and what they think their peers will think of them. When this is mixed in with part-time work, sporting or hobby commitments, and ensuring they keep the best grades at school possible, it is easy for them to get lost.
Having worked for many years with young people, I have found that their social groups and social standing in their groups can make or break them. Sometimes the interactions with their peers can be traumatic as their need for belonging and proving they are good enough for those around them is tested.
In a safe and supportive environment your child will learn practical skills that work to:
- ✅ Overcome anxiety
- ✅ Managing stress
- ✅ Strategies for overcoming trauma
- ✅ Overcome isolation
- ✅ Regulation strategies
- ✅ Positive identity
- ✅ Managing Abandonment
- ✅ Strategies for managing aggressive and avoidant behaviours
- ✅ Approaches for controlling emotions
- ✅ Build positive and safe relationships with friends and family
- ✅ Getting re-engaged with school
- ✅ Managing study pressure
- ✅ Build confidence
- ✅ Social challenges
- ✅ Shame
- ✅ Grief and loss
The approach that most adults take with young people faced with these challenges is to build their resilience. However, building a young person’s ability to bounce back is only one aspect of the overall picture. Trauma informed youth counselling services focus on giving young people an insight into why they keep allowing themselves to be treated a certain way and the reasons behind why they accept it. This isn’t always a thinking issue. It can sometimes be how they present to their social group.
Trauma informed counselling services for youth builds young people’s capacity to see what they need to take responsibility for and what they don’t. It focuses on a body-based approach that alleviates anxiety and shifts what they think of themselves. In our sessions together, we highlight the negative beliefs that have been formed due to social pressures and give space to install new empowering beliefs.
With youth trauma counselling, our approach will build a young person’s identity while making them feel safe, secure, and confident within their own body. This changes what they think of themselves and what they believe they can achieve. This approach has huge implications on young people’s ability to achieve higher grades at school and form positive reciprocal relationships.
Besides the problems young people face in their social and academic settings, many of them have hidden burdens due to unresolved trauma, grief, or difficult life experiences. Trauma informed counseling services for youth are a lifeline for young people who find it hard to navigate through such overwhelming emotions and circumstances.
The Importance of Trauma Informed Counselling for Youth
When working with the young, there is a strong belief that all of their actions, emotions, and self-image may be controlled by their past experience. Trauma informed youth counselling services work on recognition of trauma’s influence over their emotional and mental condition. This will create a safe environment that is supportive and nonjudgmental and enable the youngster to explore the depth of feelings and experiences that can be accessed.
Trauma informed counselling services for youth address the underlying issues that may cause withdrawal, aggression, or avoidance. Rather than only trying to change the behaviours, youth trauma counselling looks at the emotional wounds that create such actions. This helps the young person to process the trauma, develop resilience, and improve self-esteem.
How Trauma Counselling Helps Grief and Loss
Grief is not an emotional experience but has mental, physical, and social/academic expression. After the loss of a significant other, most youth face problems maintaining their focus in school or participation in social activities. With youth grief counselling, youth rebuild and rediscover life and living once more, making sense and meaning in the life that had gone on for a long time. Feel free to contact me for safe and effective youth grief counselling.
Tailored Approaches to Youth Counselling
Every young person is different, and so are their needs. That is why youth trauma counselling services must be tailored to each individual. For some, it can be the removal of anxiety and coping with stressful situations, while for others, it might be ways of fending off social barriers or school pressures.
Key Components of our youth counselling services include:
Body-Based Techniques:Â These help individuals reconnect with their bodies, which enables them to reduce anxiety and feel grounded and secure.
Cognitive Restructuring:Â We look for the negative beliefs they might have about themselves or the world at large.
Empowerment Strategies:Â We try to empower the young people and make them more independent in managing their emotions and actions.
Through these techniques, young people not only overcome current challenges but also build skills needed in order to tackle other future kinds of deterrents with confidence and resilience.
Contact me today to learn how our youth counselling services will make a difference for your child’s special case.
