Tune In Music Therapy
Lyzz Zinn, MA, MT-BC
Child and Adolescent Therapy
Children can't always say how they're feeling. Teenagers don't always want to. Being a parent is hard, and parenthood does not come with a guidebook.
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Sometimes kids and teens need their own space to explore and express themselves, and learn skills for communicating and moving through life's challenges. I am here to create that space.
Therapy for Children
Your child's feelings are big, sometimes bigger than you know how to handle. You wonder if this is just a phase, you want to know how long it will be before the power struggle ends. You would do anything to support your kiddo, you feel like you already have.
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Children do not always have the language to describe how they are feeling and get their needs met, so they communicate through behavior. Sometimes these behaviors feel challenging, exhausting even. Some children can communicate about their struggles with words, but their struggles may feel like more than you can manage right now. And that's okay! We all need support sometimes - children and parents.
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Let me be that support. Music therapy, creative expression, and play, provide children the opportunities to express themselves in ways they know how to someone who understands. Music therapy can give your child a space to sort through their big feelings, build supportive relationships, and learn more about themselves, so they can just enjoy being a kid, and you can enjoy being their parent.
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Let's get you all the support you need.
Therapy for
Teens
Remember being a teenager? Do you even want to remember?
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Daily, your teenager is facing academic pressure and the need to fill out their college resume. The desire to fit in with their peers in a container ripe with social comparison outweighs the desire to communicate with their parents. Meanwhile, they are navigating hormonal and emotional fluctuations they don't yet understand. Add social media to the mix and SHEESH.
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Teenagers are exploring their identities and experience wavering self-esteem. Sometimes their curiosity, sense of discovery, and need to learn to navigate more mature experiences lead to high-risk behaviors.
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You may desperately want to understand and help your teen, but they are in a perpetual state of you just don't understand me, leave me alone. It is completely normal for your teenager to want help from someone else right now. Finding them a therapist they feel comfortable connecting with can be the way you support them.
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Music therapy with teens often involves letting them lead and connecting with them on their level, giving them a space to be themselves, even they are still figuring that out. Often this looks like listening to and talking about their own music with them first. Your teenager will "feel me out" and be empowered to decide whether we are a good fit.
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Once we make that connection, we can explore all they may be holding inside and work to make sense of it all.
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Let's work together to support your teenager.