Adolescent & Family Therapy

Supporting Growth, Healing, and Connection for Teens and their Families

Adolescence is a critical period of growth, change, and exploration, and navigating it can be challenging for both teenagers and their families. At The Current, we understand the complexities of this transitional stage and offer compassionate, evidence-based therapy designed to support adolescents in their personal development while fostering healthier family dynamics. We believe that effective family work is essential to the child’s success.

Adolescent Therapy: Empowering Teens To Ride the Waves of Life

The adolescent years are often marked by a mix of excitement, confusion, and emotional turbulence. Our adolescent therapy services are tailored to meet the unique needs of teenagers, helping them build effective coping strategies to navigate the challenges they face.

Issues We Addressed in Adolescent Therapy:

  • Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating and Body Image

  • Emotional Regulation: Managing intense feelings like anxiety, anger, sadness, and frustration.

  • Anxiety & Depression: Addressing issues related to stress, worry, low mood, and isolation.

  • Trauma: Supporting teens in processing and coping with traumatic events

  • Suicidal or Injurious Behaviors: Helping teens build effective coping strategies

  • Self-Esteem & Identity: Supporting teens in exploring and developing a healthy sense of self.

  • Peer Relationships: Helping teens build positive social connections and navigate peer pressure, especially helping them navigate a world with social media that increases comparisons and risk for negative peer interactions.

  • Perfectionism or Academic Stress: Providing tools for managing school-related stress and balancing responsibilities.

  • Family Communication Dynamics

Through a combination of individual and family therapy, Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and other creative approaches like Internal Family Systems or play therapy, we help teens explore their thoughts and feelings in a safe, nonjudgmental space. We work collaboratively to set goals and create a plan for positive change, building trust and rapport every step of the way. Our therapists that specialize in working with adolescents are Amanda Lucas, Jackie Esser, and Kelsey Crandall. The Current does not provide reunification support services, supervised visits, or support during legal custody issues.

Cost & Insurance

Adolescent Individual Therapy

$105-120 per therapy hour, depending on clinician

Family Therapy

$150 per therapy hour

Radically Open DBT Family Classes (2 hour sessions)

$150 per hour

Adolescent & Family therapists are in-network with United Healthcare (excluding the Medicaid Plans) and considered out of network for all other insurances

Family Therapy: Strengthening Connections and Communication

Family dynamics play a central role in an adolescent's development, and issues within the family unit can significantly impact a teenager's mental health. Family therapy at The Current helps improve communication, resolve conflicts, and rebuild trust among family members. By fostering understanding and empathy, we help families develop stronger, healthier relationships. Our family therapy sessions provide a safe space for open dialogue, where every member’s voice is heard and valued. Together, we work towards building a deeper understanding of one another and developing skills to handle challenges in a healthy, constructive way.

Amanda Lucas is The Current’s family therapist. She is an experienced practitioner who takes a holistic approach, recognizing the interconnectedness of individual and family dynamics. Amanda is compassionate, nonjudgemental, and uses a combination of skills based and creative approaches. She creates a warm, safe environment, taking the time to get to understand your family’s unique needs and then puts together a treatment strategy that will deepen your family’s understanding of each part of the family system and develop new skills to manage challenges together.

Amanda is trained in Radically Open DBT and often takes this approach to working with families, helping them navigate through communication deficits, emotion regulation or expression issues and rigid thought and behavior patterns. Amanda is especially skilled at helping families navigate through one member’s eating disorder and helps the whole family system change their relationship with food, weight and body.