Adolescents | Anoshe Therapies

What we assess for

Anxiety, including social anxiety, panic and school-related fear
Depression and persistent low mood
ADHD assessment, including diagnoses missed in childhood, and autism screening, with referral on to an assessor who can complete the diagnostic process
Presentations previously read as defiance, attitude or laziness rather than difference
Self-harm, and risk assessed and held with the family
Disordered eating and body image concerns
Trauma, including racist incidents at school, online or in sport
School refusal and disengagement
Emerging psychosis and other presentations needing early clinical attention
Sleep difficulties and their effect on mood and school
Substance use, held without shame
Identity development, including racial, cultural, gender and sexual identity

Individual therapy, with the young person seen alone where appropriate
Family sessions where the young person wants them
Work on masking, code-switching and burnout, distinguished from one another
Support through the gap between what is expected at home and what is expected outside it
Parent-only sessions, so parents are supported without the young person carrying it
Reports for school adjustments, exam provisions and NDIS
Planning for the move into adult services

Adultification bias named directly, rather than worked around
Confidentiality explained clearly to both the young person and their parents
Neuroaffirming throughout, with no behavioural or reward-based approaches
Cultural obligation and family expectation treated as real, not as something to be talked out of