Our Approach to Adolescent Mental Health
This time of profound emotional, physical, and cognitive changes, makes our kids particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, and self-esteem issues. We work with children fifteen years and older, considering the unique needs of your child, providing comprehensive and empowering mental healthcare.
Addressing Hormonal and Neurochemical Changes
An integrative psychiatry approach takes into account how hormonal changes influence brain chemistry, offering psychiatric medications (when necessary) tailored to the unique needs of adolescents. It supports overall wellness through healthy lifestyle discourses, nutritional deficiency testing, and nutraceutical options for optimal brain functioning and emotional regulation.
Empowerment through Whole Person Care
Puberty often brings a heightened sensitivity to social pressures, body image concerns, and emerging sexual identities.
An integrative psychiatry approach empowers adolescents by giving them tools and strategies to manage their mental health in a balanced, informed way. Through education, mind-body practices, and a focus on emotional well-being, adolescents develop a sense of ownership over their mental health, building confidence and self-awareness.
Building Resilience
An integrative approach considers the external pressures of school, social media, peer relationships, family dynamics and social support networks, and includes them as essential parts of the wellness process. Therapy may help reduce the impact of negative stressors in any of these domains, and support groups tailored to your teen's diagnosis or concerns, have the potential to enhance emotional regulation and expression. At Pure Potential, we aim to offer group education for your adolescent, and we can help navigate finding the right therapist for your child outside of our practice as well.
Focusing on Long-Term Well Being
Integrative psychiatry focuses on early intervention, helping identify mental health disorders before they escalate into more chronic issues. At Pure Potential, a tailored plan is developed for your child that may include lifestyle interventions focused on nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, and mindfulness practices, helping to promote long-term mental well-being.
