Adolescent life at its core is learning how to become your own person. It’s a time of self exploration, understanding, making sense of the world, engaging with peers and figuring out likes and dislikes. In this world any human being can experience aspects of trauma, bullying, exposure to mature content, peer pressure, societal standards and norms that can distort a human’s view of self and of others. While adolescents go through “phases” and “stages” and have hormonal imbalances, development of self and identity can be ridiculed into something much smaller, invaluable and depersonalizing. Adolescent therapy is about discovering thought processes and cognitive behaviors that result in certain coping mechanisms whether they are healthy or unhealthy. It is also about understanding past life and current environment to make sense of who they are to understand how they want to or should interact with the world.