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Child & Adolescent Therapy in Michigan
Growing up can involve emotions, relationships, and changes that are difficult to explain. At Restore and Rise Therapy, Ebony Reynolds, LMSW, offers online child and adolescent therapy across Michigan. Sessions provide space for young people to discuss their concerns, explore their experiences, and work toward goals that reflect their age, needs, and everyday lives.
With 16+ years of experience, Ebony brings a compassionate approach to supporting children, teenagers, and families. Her practice places a special focus on Black mental health, welcoming conversations about identity, belonging, and cultural experiences while recognizing each young person’s personality, strengths, and perspective.
What Child and Teen Therapy Involves
Getting started means understanding the concerns that led you to seek support. Ebony can discuss your child’s experiences, family context, and goals for therapy while making room for the young person’s own perspective. This initial conversation also helps determine whether her approach and virtual sessions are a suitable fit.
Sessions are shaped around the young person’s age, readiness, and needs. Conversations may explore friendships, school pressures, family changes, or emotions that feel hard to manage. Ebony supports young people in finding ways to express themselves and discussing responses to situations they encounter in daily life.
Parent or caregiver involvement is discussed as part of planning care. Together, you can clarify how participation, communication, and support between appointments will work. Goals can be revisited as needs change, with attention to both the young person’s experience and the family circumstances surrounding them.
Room to Grow Into Their Own Voice
Children and teenagers may experience pressures that adults do not immediately see. Friendship changes, expectations at school, and questions about belonging can be difficult to put into words. Therapy offers an opportunity to explore these experiences with someone who takes their perspective seriously.
For Black children and adolescents, conversations may include cultural identity, representation, experiences of racism, or feeling misunderstood. Ebony welcomes these topics when they matter to the young person. Sessions make room for individual experiences without assuming that identity affects every child or teenager in the same way.
Support also involves recognizing interests, abilities, and relationships that matter to them. Young people can explore what helps them feel understood and what they would like to change. Their voice remains part of the conversation as therapy goals develop alongside their changing needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sessions can explore emotions, friendships, school pressures, family changes, identity, and other concerns affecting daily life. During the initial conversation, Ebony can discuss your family’s needs and whether her services are appropriate for the support you’re seeking.
Participation depends on the young person’s age, needs, and goals for therapy. Ebony will discuss how parents or caregivers may be involved and how communication will work. You can ask about these arrangements before beginning sessions.
You can share that concern when reaching out. An introductory conversation provides an opportunity for your teenager to ask questions and learn what sessions involve. Their concerns and readiness should be part of deciding how to move forward.
Suitability depends on factors such as age, attention, comfort with video conversations, privacy, and support needs. Ebony can discuss these considerations with you before scheduling ongoing care. Virtual sessions are available for clients located in Michigan.
Before therapy begins, ask Ebony to explain confidentiality, its limits, and how information may be shared with parents or caregivers. These arrangements should be discussed clearly so both you and your child understand what to expect.
Support for Their Next Steps
Give your child or teenager space to express themselves, explore challenges, and feel heard with support that respects their age, experiences, and individual needs.