Parental Separation and Divorce Therapy for Children and Teens in Philadelphia Area, PA
Navigating divorce can be incredibly challenging for children, affecting their emotional well-being and sense of stability. It's a process that varies for everyone, influenced by unique factors such as your relationship with each parent, memories shared as a family, past experiences with loss, and the support system you have in place. There's no right or wrong way to navigate this transition; it's about finding what helps you cope and heal.
Why Should You start your Child In Divorce therapy?
Adjusting to parents' divorce or separation is a complex and emotional journey. Enrolling your child in therapy provides them with essential tools and support to navigate this journey with resilience and confidence, ensuring they can thrive amidst the challenges of family transition.
Divorce Therapy Can Help Your Kid or Teen Process Their Emotions
Children and teens of divorce often experience uncomfortable emotions such as anxiety, sadness, hopelessness, including sadness, anger, confusion, anxiety, guilt, and even fear about the future. Due to the divorce they may be hesitant to talk about these emotions with their parents. Therapy offers a safe, non-judgmental space where children can express these feelings openly and work through them at their own pace.
Divorce Therapy Can Help Your Child learn coping skills
Children and teens experience emotional ups and downs while processing divorce/separation and adjusting to their new life.
They may be experiencing these strong uncomfortable emotions for the first time and have difficulties controlling and regulating them.
Our therapists work your child and teen to find coping skills that work for them. We teach our clients these skills so that they feel empowered to navigate their feelings and persevere through difficult times.
Divorce Therapy Can Support Parents when their child has difficult behaviors
Kids and teens often exhibit behavioral changes when their parents divorce due to the significant emotional impact and upheaval in their lives. Adjusting to a new life and all the emotions that come with it can be overwhelming. Our therapists offer parent sessions to offer you support and help navigating these difficult behaviors and responding to your child.
Therapists at Amel Counseling & Consulting Can Help
Our counselors know how to work with families, children, and teens who are going through a divorce or separation. Moreover, our therapists will be able to provide tools and coping skills to manage the life changes in a way that may be more healthy than it was without professional guidance.
Children get a neutral space to talk about their loss. To be frank, they often know or pick up on a lot more than you think. They have a lot of stuff to process in divorce therapy!
To start your therapy journey, please follow these steps:
Meet with a caring therapist
Start coping with grief and start living a full life!
Other Services Offered with Amel Therapy
Divorce therapy isn’t the only service offered at our Philadelphia, PA-based therapy practice. We also offer online therapy, trauma therapy, child therapy, play therapy, counseling for teens, therapy for teens and kids of color, and support for parents. Feel free to learn more about parent coaching and our group offerings as well. This includes the worry warriors, culturally confident teen group, and our teen girls group!