Three Ways to Help Your Child/Teen Build Confidence
The therapists and counselors at Milford Counseling work with teens and children that are struggling with their confidence.
Today’s teens are struggling with an array of challenges. These challenges can be overwhelming and difficult for adolescents to understand. The challenges that teens face are often triggers for depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and lack of confidence. Is your teen struggling with their grades at school? Is your teen having difficulty making friends or participating in sports or other types of social activities? Are you worried that your child’s low self-confidence is going to be a lifelong problem? Watching your child struggle is a terrible feeling. Especially when you know how bright and talented your teenager is.
You already know the developmental years during adolescents is critical to their long-term success. Sometimes teens find drugs or alcohol as a way to cope. Have you tried therapy or medication before? Did it work? Did it make it worse? Did your teen dread going to counseling or how the medication felt? All of these symptoms are very common among teens and adolescents.
Watching your child struggle with confidence is a terrible feeling.
Your kids have been through a lot in the past several years. Milford Counseling and our therapists have been on the front line helping teens in Milford Michigan and the surrounding area. Low confidence, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse are skyrocketing in our community and teens are struggling with it too. The past few years has been uncertain for most teens. If you take time to look through the lens of their eye, you can see this. Lockdowns, shootings and very little social contact except through their phones are the more acute problems your teen has been facing. Longer term uncertainty regarding their future and where they will be as adults contribute as well. Teens hear adults talking. Teens watch the news. Teens feel the discord that is happening in our communities. All of these external factors contribute to a higher rate of depression, anxiety and drug use with teens. These external factors can lead to internal difficulties with the teen’s thinking, beliefs, attitudes and confidence. Here are 3 effective ways to help your child build their confidence.
1. Build Strength
A teen excels when they know their strengths. Milford Counseling and our therapists are equipped to help provide your child with the therapy they need to gain confidence and success in life. Milford Counseling’s therapists work with your teen from a strength based approach. Our therapists help your child to discover their strengths and abilities so they can successfully apply them in their life. Your teen will uncover their abilities and begin to gain confidence.
2. Build Structure
In order to utilize their strengths, a teenager needs solid structure. Our therapists are trained at working with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, but the team at Milford Counseling believes that a child’s strong self-confidence can be the biggest factor in a teen’s success. Our therapists help teens build strength and courage with a well-structured plan. Helping a teenager set strength based goals and giving them the objectives to accomplish their goals is Milford Counseling’s aim. The motivation for teenagers to change comes from within your teen and a good counselor can help your child discover their truth and build a strong foundation.
Our therapists help your child to discover their strengths and abilities
3. Build Discipline
Motivation is a way to get moving and build momentum but discipline and responsibility is how we help teens with their sustained success. Our therapists teach teens that they are not going to feel inspired or motivated every day. A teen needs to understand that discipline is the key to their achievement. Our counselors help them to see how discipline and accountability can serve them well. Discipline is a scary word for a lot of teens but a good therapist can help a teenager use this valuable virtue to serve them well.
Gaining strength, having solid structure and practicing self-discipline can be a game changer in a teen’s life. It is a lot of fun as a parent to finally see your child gain confidence in their young life with the tools they need to be happy and fulfilled.
I’m not sure if this will work. Milford Counseling utilizes several approaches to helping your teenager with their issue. Our therapists don’t believe there is a one size fits all answer. However, we do teach the basics, and strength, structure and discipline are wonderful tools for your teen to have. Combine this with the other methods Milford Counseling’s therapist use, and we feel your teen is heading towards a healthier well-being.
I have tried this before and it didn’t help. Sometimes the right person is all a teen needs to have a life changing breakthrough. Our regard for you and your teen is paramount to building trust. Milford Counseling’s therapists are experienced and skilled with building trust and rapport with you and your child. A trusting relationship between the therapists and their client is always the greatest way to helping your teen to find the willingness to change.
Maybe I’m overreacting and my child is fine. Of course your child is fine. Having a therapist never means that a person is broken or damaged. It means that the person is looking for self-improvement. Everyone, even the happiest people go to therapy. It works. It’s a great way to keep your mental health and well-being in shape. We all want our children to be in fit physical shape. Therapy is a way to be in fit emotional shape.
Milford Counseling has the solution to help your child improve their confidence. We invite you to call us (248)529-6383 to schedule a session with a therapist. It would be an honor to work with you and help!
