Counseling Services

Providing care for pre-teens, adolescents, young adults and their families.

What We Offer

At EdYouth Foundation Counseling, we provide a range of services designed to meet you and your family where you are. Whether you're navigating something alone, working through family dynamics, or building a relationship with a partner, we have a space for you.

Sometimes you just need someone to talk to. Someone who listens without judgment, who gets it, and who believes in you even when things feel impossible.
In individual counseling, you'll work one-on-one with a counselor in a safe, confidential space to explore what's on your mind and heart. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, trauma, identity questions, relationship concerns, or just the weight of growing up, counseling is about discovering your own strength and figuring out your path forward.
This is your time. Your story. Your pace.
Family is where we first learn relationships and how to move through life. As a minor, the adults in your life have authority to dictate how you live to some extent, whether you like it or not. Our goal is to help make these relationships work with you, not against you. As we help you find your way towards the future you hope for, it's our job to support and maximize your ability to progress in the direction you are pursuing by bridging the gap between you and your family members.
Family counseling is about learning what a family should be and how to work towards healthier relationships. It creates a space where parents, teens, and young adults can come together to understand each other better. We help families improve how they communicate, work through conflict, and strengthen their connections. If your family is navigating a difficult season or trying to find your way back to each other, we're here to walk alongside you all.
Relationships are hard. The more intimate you are with somebody, the more intense their impact becomes. Giving somebody the chance to get close to you means facing both extremes; the same vulnerability that can give the most meaning to the connection is the very thing that gives the ability to hurt each other more. We want to help you learn how to build relationships by testing the waters, setting and maintaining boundaries, and learning how and when to let someone in while accepting the other person's humanity.
Whether you're building something new with a partner or working through challenges in a long-term commitment, couples counseling creates space to really be heard by each other. We help partners strengthen communication, work through conflict, and build the kind of relationship you both want. Counseling isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about helping you both understand each other more deeply and move forward on the same page.
For many young people, substance use isn't the problem—it's how they're coping with one. Whether it's anxiety, trauma, grief, loneliness, or just the overwhelming weight of growing up, substances become a way to numb the pain or feel something different for a while.
We don't see substance use as a moral failing or something to shame you for. We see it as a sign that you're carrying something heavy and haven't found a better way to set it down yet. Our job is to help you understand what you're really seeking when you turn to substances, address what's underneath, and learn healthier ways to move through the hard stuff.
Here's the truth: mental health and substance use are rarely separate issues for young people. They feed each other. Healing means addressing both. Whether you're struggling with occasional use that's gotten out of hand, daily use that's taken over your life, or you're just starting to wonder if your relationship with substances is healthy, there's no judgment here. There's just a space to be honest about what's happening and work together toward the future you actually want to live.
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There's something powerful about knowing you're not alone. Group therapy offers the chance to connect with others who understand what you're going through, learn from their experiences, and discover your own strength in community. As our program grows, we will develop groups specifically pertaining to the issues arising among the youth clients we are serving at the time.
English: We offer counseling in Spanish for youth and young adults who prefer to receive services in their primary language. Sahian Sanabria, one of our graduate student counselors, provides bilingual counseling services in English and Spanish.
Español: Ofrecemos consejería en español para jóvenes y adultos jóvenes que prefieren recibir servicios en su idioma principal. Sahian Sanabria, una de nuestras consejeras estudiantes de postgrado, proporciona servicios de consejería bilingüe en inglés y español.

Building Your

Future

The Counseling Process

Like anything in life, there’s a process to building your future in counseling. While this journey starts out fairly set, the overall process can vary from person to person and day to day as the design of your individual process is personalized.

To understand how the process works, it can be helpful to think about building your future like building a home. While every step should be completed to provide the final result you need, there are many different builders that offer different ideas of starting points, many areas to consider building and plots of land to develop, various foundational aspects that dictate the project or may need refined to accommodate what you and the architect are aiming for, and a plethora of options for finishing touches. The amount of time needed to complete the structure depends on many factors, especially how clear and complex the land and vision are. While we cannot predict what your individual needs will be, here’s a general guide on how the process tends to work.

Evaluation

(Sessions 1 & 2)

As professional clinicians and counselors in training, we are required to complete an in-depth evaluation of your situation and history before we can get started in the counseling process. Unfortunately, this makes the first impression the hardest to navigate. We’ll spend the first couple of appointments going through lists of questions, symptoms, your goals and overall history. This process can feel much less connecting than the typical therapy session, but it provides us the land to build on moving forward.

Relationship

(Sessions 3 - 6)

Once we have the base of your situation, we will focus on getting to know you and how we will best work together. Every person is different and we value your individual uniqueness to build the foundation of our future work together. The evaluation provides the plot to build on, but the relationship is the foundation for everything we do. It holds the most crucial parts of providing sustainability and support to all our future sessions.

Now that we've built the foundation together, we can explore what's shaped you. We look at your patterns, what you've learned about yourself and the world, the experiences that have made you who you are. Some of this might be painful to revisit. Some of it might be surprising to see clearly for the first time. But understanding your story—really understanding it—is what gives us the roadmap for change. This is where healing actually begins.

Your Story

(Sessions 4+)

Throughout Our Work Together

Counseling isn't just about understanding what happened. It's about moving forward. As we build this understanding, we start designing the life you actually want to live. What does your future look like? What do you need to get there? How do you want to feel about yourself and your relationships? Together, we figure out the details—the colors, the layout, the life that makes your home truly yours.

This is the part where counseling becomes about possibility, not just processing. And it's the part you lead.