In the innovative, effective, change-oriented model utilized with early to middle adolescents and older children, individual sessions begin and end at Our Office. During the session, we may go to a park, forest preserve, for a snack, to a bookstore, etc.. This helps youth form a therapeutic relationship as well as it is the best assessment tool possible for understanding youth … the youth is seen in the real world.
Vanessa Kell MSW works with:

Helping female adolescents build healthy identities as young women. This work leads to substantial charge and growth for female youth. This work is extremely beneficial with female teens dealing with anxiety, depression, and despair as well as rage.

Youth who lack or are totally missing social tools and social skills as well as being unable to integrate social tolls and social skills into behavioral action at school, at home and/or in the community.

Youth with a variety of labels (i.e. ADD, CD, ODD) who are lost, troubled, unable to concentrate, focus, or be disciplined and consistently work.

Youth who are seen as needing Anger Management, and it does NOT work for them or with them. Youth who are Bullies, verbally hostile and mean, and physically act-out without regard or concern for others. These youth need help understanding what anger truly is about and developing tools and skills to empty and channel anger. This often means dealing with an inability to cope with and maturely channel stress, distress, anxiety, disappointment, frustration and FEAR. Quite often, this means working on Narcissism and narcissistic issues. Many youth I work with have failed at many traditional approaches.