Teen & Young Adult Mental Health Blog
Written By Colorado Therapists
This is where our Colorado clinical team gets real about what teens, young adults, and the parents and caregivers who show up for them are actually going through. Here you’ll find posts on anxiety, trauma, identity, neurodivergence, chronic stress, disability, and life transitions…and why the advice you’ve already tried probably isn’t enough.
We write for teens trying to make sense of what they’re feeling. For young adults figuring out who they are and what they want out of life. For the parents and caregivers who continue to show up every day, even when they don’t have the answers.
Every post comes from inside our practice here at Interfaith Bridge Counseling, written by therapists, clinicians, and supervised interns actively working with teens and young adults across Colorado, in Denver and statewide via telehealth. No recycled advice. No watered-down wellness content. Just honest, grounded information from people who support people just like you.
Teenage Boredom: Anger’s Mask
It's the middle of summer, school's out, and guess what? You're bored. You might have a summer job, be taking a summer class, and even get to regularly hang out with friends, but you still find yourself listless, "stuck," or just plain apathetic.
In this month's blog post, let's dive into what feeling boredom as a young person may really mean and what hides behind it.
The Drama Triangle: How Parents & Teens Can Survive It
Life and relationships are complicated. Duh, right? Sprinkle in the facts of being a teenager (first loves, high expectations, social pressure, and passionate decisions) and it might seem impossible to stay drama-free.
First, let's normalize that drama, well, is normal.
The Gifts of Letting Go of Dreams & Productivity
"Work hard, play hard." "Shoot for the stars." "Never stop chasing your dreams." "If you can dream it, you can do it!"
These are sayings and quotes we might have heard or seen throughout our lives.
In school, we're faced with the pressure to academically succeed, participate in extracurricular activities, and live a rich social life (this, of course, all while holding unique and inspiring aspirations for ourselves.)
5 Tools to Support Season Change
In the fall the nights grow longer, the temperatures drop, and everything green seems to fade. In spring, the light peeks through our curtains sometimes before we're even awake, the weather gets warmer and while the foliage around us blossoms, allergy season makes its rude debut here in Colorado.
Regardless of the season, it's a change, and change, sometimes, is hard.
Understanding Mindfulness: Self-Distraction vs Self-Awareness
After school activities to get to, tests to prepare for, papers to write. Deadlines to make, social expectations to meet, bills to pay. Chronic illnesses to battle, emotions to process, the world to face. The pressure, the stress, the frustration, the pain, is on. We fly from one thing to the next, hardly able to breathe. We know we need to slow down, to take a moment in the moment, but we can't seem to make ourselves, because what does that even mean anyway?
Maybe, we think, this is the only way we're able to handle all these things, by just pressing on absent-mindedly, numb to what our bodies and minds may be trying to tell us. Or maybe we did try to slow down, to connect with the present, but it seemed to make things worse. It compounded those uncomfortable and painful feelings.
Mindfulness, it turns out, is a double-edged sword.
Breakups: Finding Love for Yourself After the Fallout
Breakups. Sometimes they creep--a slow, terrible fracture between people who once really loved each other. Sometimes they happen suddenly, seemingly without notice, leaving you suddenly alone and heartbroken. However breakups happen, they almost always leave you with a slew of emotions: grief, sadness, anxiety, fear, loneliness, and maybe even, some guilt and shame.
So how do we navigate these feelings? Especially when we're feeling incredibly vulnerable, broken and, well, just down right shitty? We might even think How do I learn to love again?
Frequently Asked Questions
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Every post comes from inside our practice here at Interfaith Bridge Counseling, grounded in real clinical experience with teens and young adults across Colorado. You’ll find a clinician’s name, credentials, and a last updated date on every post.
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Our blog is primarily for teens (ages 10-18), young adults (19-35), and the parents and caregivers who support them. If you’re looking for a teen therapist in Denver or therapy for young adults in Colorado, this where we share more about what you can expect in sessions and with our approach. A lot for what we write is also useful for school counselors, educators, and anyone supporting young people through hard things.
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Some of the most important stuff - anxiety, trauma, identity, neurodivergence, chronic stress, disability, chronic illness, dissociation, life transitions, and intergenerational trauma, and much more. These tie directly to the areas we treat at our Denver therapy practice, including therapy for chronic stress, life transitions counseling, identity exploration, and disability and chronic illness therapy.
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Yes, 100%. And more than affirming, Interfaith Bridge Counseling is LGBTQIA+ owned, trained, and competent. Every person on our clinical team has the training and clinical competence to work with LGBTQIA+ teens and young adults in Denver and across Colorado.
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Yes. We accept all RAEs of Health First Colorado (Medicaid), the Second Wind Fund, Health Savings Accounts (HSA), and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). For self-pay clients we offer a sliding scale from $60-$140 per session. Our goal is to make therapy financially accessible without sacrificing quality of care.
Outside of Medicaid, we do not accept any commercial insurance plans and are happy to provide you with a superbill for possible reimbursement. -
Yes, every post on our blog comes from inside our practice here at Interfaith Bridge Counseling. Our blog is grounded in real clinical experience with teens and young adults across Colorado. In each post, you’ll find a clinician’s name, credentials, and a last updated date.
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No, there is a human behind every blog post and paired with a clinician’s name on it. Every piece of content on this blog is rooted in real clinical experience with teens and young adults across Colorado from therapists here at Interfaith Bridge Counseling.