Something has shifted between you and your teenager — and you're not sure how to get back. Maybe the conversations have dried up. Maybe every interaction ends in conflict. Maybe your teen has gone somewhere inside themselves and you can't reach them anymore. It's painful to love someone so much and feel so far away.

Teen and parent relationship therapy brings both of you into the room — not to assign blame or prove a point, but to help you actually hear each other again.

I work with families where communication has completely broken down, where conflict has become the primary way of connecting, where a teen feels misunderstood or dismissed, where a parent feels shut out, disrespected, or frightened, and where there's been a rupture — an incident, a revelation, or a betrayal of trust — that needs repair.

Teenagers aren't just small adults. They're in one of the most intense developmental seasons of life — building identity, needing independence, and still desperately needing to know their parents are there. Helping parents understand what's happening in their teen's world — and helping teens understand what their parents actually feel — changes everything.

I work from an attachment and IFS framework that honors both sides of the relationship, creates emotional safety in the room, and gives both parent and teen tools to keep the connection alive at home.

The relationship you have with your teenager right now shapes the relationship you'll have for the rest of your lives. It's worth the work.

 Ready to reconnect? Reach out today — I work with teens ages 12 and up and their families.