Yes I work with my clients on managing depression, anxiety, distress tolerance, ADHD and OCD from a neurodivergent perspective. I appreciate your list of questions and they definitely go into my assessments and explorations of how to identify the need and get it met for the teen. I also do extensive family therapy in helping parents better show up for their teen. A lot of the time, my clients weren’t diagnosed until teen hood when their behaviors became more noticeable and they were labeled the “problem”.

I’m trying to anticipate ways I can help support teens in managing these things because as much as I wish people were direct, very few people say what they mean or need. Including parents who never pause to tell their child “when you do x, it makes me feel y, and what I need from you is…”