Counseling for Adolescents & Young Adults
Altair Private Counseling provides virtual counseling for tweens, teens, and young adults in Washington state, attend from the comfort and convenience of your own home.
Services & Specialties
How I Support Adolescents & Families
You don't need to fit into a box to be a good fit for therapy. I meet each individual exactly where they are. Here are the primary ways I help:
Tweens & Middle Schoolers (Building organization, navigating friendships, emotions, self-esteem, managing school anxiety)
Teens & High Schoolers (Twice-exceptional support, perfectionism, school stress, emotions, confidence, college prep stress)
Young Adults & College Transitions (Executive functioning, life transitions, identity, navigating the shift to independence)
Areas of Special Focus:
Neurodiversity & ADHD: Support for ADHD, 2e unique profiles, and neurodivergent teens focused on real-world strategies—not “fixing” who they are. We build tools that work with their brain, not against it.
Perfectionism & Burnout: Helping high-achieving teens untangle self-worth from grades, performance, and external validation, and reduce chronic stress and burnout.
Masking: Providing a safe haven for teens (including LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent youth) who feel the exhausting pressure to "fake it" or camouflage their true selves to survive socially.
Identity: Supporting teens as they discover who they are, build self-acceptance, clarify their values, and develop confidence in becoming their authentic selves.
Self-Esteem & Confidence: Many young people appear confident on the outside while quietly struggling with self-doubt, self-criticism, insecurity, and fear of not measuring up. Together, we work on building self-trust, resilience, and a healthier relationship with themselves.
Anxiety & Overwhelm: Helping teens who feel constantly “on,” overthinking, or stuck in cycles of worry, fear, and emotional overload learn practical tools to calm their nervous system and regain a sense of control.
Peer Relationships: Navigating friendships, social challenges, conflict, and belonging while building healthy communication, boundaries, and meaningful connections.
Emotional Regulation: Recognizing emotional buildup before it becomes overwhelming, reducing reactivity or shutdown, and developing practical skills to respond with greater confidence and balance.
Mild to Moderate Depression: Helping teens move through periods of sadness, low motivation, and emotional highs and lows by building coping skills, increasing self-understanding, and reconnecting with confidence and purpose.
Executive Functioning: Understanding that difficulty with planning, organization, or getting started is often about skills—not effort. Supporting teens and young adults in developing tools that promote confidence, independence, and success.
Life Transitions: Helping teens and young adults navigate family changes, school or college transitions, changing relationships, increasing independence, and other major life changes with greater self-understanding.
Family Communication Breakdown: Helping teens and their parents hear each other again by improving communication, strengthening understanding, and reducing conflict.
Technology & Social Media Boundaries: Helping teens, young adults, and families establish healthy digital habits, and create a balanced relationship with screens that supports emotional well-being and meaningful real-life connection.
Heartbreak & Relationship Transitions: Recognizing that first loves and significant relationships matter. Supporting teens and young adults through heartbreak, grief, and the emotional impact of relationship loss.
Social Isolation & Social Anxiety: Helping teens and young adults understand and validate their experiences, move beyond fears of judgment, and build meaningful connections and a genuine sense of belonging while honoring their unique personality, comfort level, and social needs.
School Supports & IEP/504 Planning: Helping families better understand evaluations, IEPs, and 504 Plans while providing guidance, preparation, and support to help students access the tools they need to thrive.
About Me:
My approach is warm, collaborative, and deeply grounded in the reality of today’s world. As a parent myself, I understand the delicate balance of raising a healthy, happy human in a high-pressure environment. I am not just a face on a screen once a week; I am a dedicated advocate for your child’s emotional and academic well-being.
A Partnership Approach: Why I Keep My Practice Small
Most modern therapy practices are high-volume, which can lead to a "revolving door" feeling. I have intentionally chosen a different path. To provide the level of care your family deserves, I limit my practice to 8 clients. This approach allows me to be a true partner in your child’s development.
What is Included in Your Care:
Expert School Navigation: With over 13 years experience in the school system, I’m able to provide high-level guidance to ensure your child’s emotional needs are met in the classroom.
Dedicated Collaboration: I offer an optional 30 minutes of coordination to consult with your child’s teachers, school counselors, or pediatricians to ensure a "wrap-around" approach to their care, if desired.
Note: I generally do not attend school meetings.
Parental Partnership: I offer brief monthly parent check-ins of 15 mins to support collaboration, share general progress updates within confidentiality guidelines, and help parents better understand how to support their teen outside of sessions.
Responsive Access: I prioritize timely email communication and accommodate the busy lives of teens by offering weekday appointments, between 2pm-6pm. I also have availability weekdays between 10am-12pm for teens & young adults with flexible schedules, and parent sessions.
Individual Therapy -
Investment: $175 per 55 min session
Private Pay | Telehealth | Washington
Upon request, I provide clients with a monthly superbill for possible out-of-network insurance coverage.
Parent Coaching & Consultation
In addition to teen and young adult therapy, I offer parent coaching and consultation for caregivers seeking support with communication, emotional regulation, school concerns, navigating special education programs, neurodiversity, and navigating the challenges of raising a child, teen, or young adult. These services provide a dedicated space for parents to gain understanding, develop strategies, and feel more confident in supporting their child.
Individual parent sessions are billed at the same rate as individual therapy sessions.
Help your teen take a breath, and move forward—reach out today.