The Norooz Clinic Foundation is a non-profit public service and educational organization.

Seeking counseling support does not mean that your teen is crazy! At least 1 in 5 teens struggle with a mental health issue. Our clinicians treat mental health problems just like any medical problem. For instance, if you break your leg, you go to an orthopedic doctor.

If you have an earache, you see an ear, nose, and throat specialist. If you are depressed, anxious, or need someone to talk to, you go to a therapist.

Counseling is meant to be an entirely individualized experience, where your teen has the opportunity to express themselves freely and have an experience of being listened to with compassion and without judgment to process and work through their difficulties.

Not only do we aim to provide support and encouragement for each of our clients, it is our goal to offer them creative practical resources that they can put into practice immediately in their lives.

In individual therapy, your teen meets with a therapist alone to talk about your problems. Each session lasts about 50 minutes.

The therapist may ask your teen to identify their feelings about the problems. And they might get “homework” that will help them work through the problems.

Everything they say in therapy is confidential, unless the therapist has good reason to believe that your teen might hurt yourself or someone else. Sometimes, it can be helpful for the therapist to talk parents or your teen’s school counselor about a problem.

With family therapy, you and your teen (and sometimes their brothers and sisters) go to therapy together. Because everybody is there, the teen can work on problems that affect the family.

The therapist will discourage interrupting, and make sure everyone gets to voice their concerns.

A psychological evaluation is a thorough process of assessment and screening administered by an adolescent psychologist. The methods used for the evaluation will depend on your teen’s needs. It may consist of a series of formal or structured psychological or neuropsychological tests as well as clinical interviews designed to identify and describe the emotional, behavioral or learning problems that may be contributing to the problems your teen is having.A psychological evaluation should be considered in cases where there is uncertainty about the reasons your teen is having problems with mood, behavior, or learning.

The role of the psychologist doing the evaluation is similar to a detective looking for clues to solve a mystery. The more clues that can be identified, the more information you’ll have to understand what’s going on with your teen and decide what options are best suited to help them.