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

How adolescents are engaged

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

How we hold it

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

Where this connects

BecomingIntensification · Consolidation Becoming FamilyThe same stages, read through the family Hold the Roots, Change the RouteFor the parents alongside Load-BearingFor eldest daughters carrying the family Looking CloserAssessment, diagnosis and treatment AnchorFatherhood, where a father is in the room

Anoshe Therapies works on Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Country, and on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We deliver online across many other Countries, and we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of each of them.

We pay respect to Elders past and present, and to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to hold knowledge about family, kinship and belonging that long predates anything we practise.

Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.