Teenagers generally like to be listened to. But you also want a therapist to talk to you. These years are all about learning. More than any other period in your life, you are consuming huge amounts of information on a daily basis. Just think about how much you have matured over even the last three years! You probably want a therapist that can help you synthesize what you are learning and experiencing, and a therapeutic model or framework to help you make sense of what is happening to you and around you. You want to do well in life. Yet you already have a harsh internal critic, right? Probably echoing the worst aspects of your very well-intentioned parent? But now your critic grows bolder each day—a little bully whose job is to get you to do the right thing—and it is relentless.

Well, the critic has served an important role for you. But it's time you got that voice to soften a bit so that you can start to ENJOY doing what you want for yourself!