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’s 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 focuses 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 youth counselling 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 trauma informed youth 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 forming positive reciprocal relationships.
Contact me today to discuss how trauma informed youth counselling works and how your child will benefit for their individual circumstances.
