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Teen & Family Therapy for Anxiety, Self-Harm & Suicide Support
Therapy for high-risk teens and young adults (ages 11–24), parents, caregivers, and families navigating suicide risk, self-harm, severe anxiety, panic attacks, complex trauma, school refusal, behavioral escalation, and post-residential transitions.
Therapy for complex adolescent mental health and overwhelmed family systems
Specialized Support for Teens, Parents & Families in Crisis
I work with adolescents, young adults, and families throughout California facing severe anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, suicidality, school refusal, emotional dysregulation, and higher levels of care transitions.
Many families arrive feeling defeated after years of trying to help their teen. Therapy focuses on stabilization first, while helping parents and teens better understand the deeper patterns underneath the chaos, fear, conflict, shutdown, avoidance, or hopelessness that has taken over the family system.
This is not…
Surface-level therapy
Parenting advice pulled from social media
A place where parents are blamed for struggling
This is a space for honest conversations, real accountability, nervous system regulation, and helping families find their footing again.
Benefits of Working Together
A Plan in the Middle
of the Chaos
Families stop spinning in circles trying to figure out what is urgent, what is escalating, and what actually needs attention first.
Someone Who Can
Handle the Hard Stuff
Self-harm, suicide risk, shutdown, rage, panic, trauma, hospitalization, family conflict. Nothing gets minimized or avoided.
Less Walking
on Eggshells
Families begin understanding the patterns underneath the explosions, shutdowns, avoidance, and emotional overwhelm that have taken over the home.
Real Accountability &
Real Compassion
Teens are not shamed, blamed, or “fixed,” but they are challenged to participate, take ownership, and move forward honestly.
Parents Stop Carrying
It Alone
Parents often arrive exhausted, hypervigilant, and terrified of making things worse. Therapy helps create steadiness, clarity, and support within the family system.
Stabilization Before
Deep Healing
The work starts by reducing crisis intensity and helping the nervous system settle enough for meaningful healing to actually happen.
Some Families Reach Out in the Middle of the Worst Week of Their Lives
A parent finds the cuts.
A school calls again.
A teen stops going to class, stops leaving their room, stops talking.
Someone says, “I don’t want to be here anymore,” and suddenly the entire family is holding its breath.
Most families that come here are not casually browsing for therapy.
They are scared. Exhausted. Hypervigilant. Burned out from trying to hold everything together while life continues moving around them. Many have already done the hospitalizations, the safety plans, the treatment programs, the therapy appointments, the endless Googling late at night trying to figure out how things got this bad.
And underneath all of it is usually the same painful question:
“What are we missing?”
Therapy Services for Teens, Young Adults & Families
Anxiety
Support for panic, overwhelm, school refusal, avoidance, and relentless overthinking.
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Suicide
Specialized care for hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, previous attempts, and family crisis.
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Self-harm
Helping teens reduce emotional overwhelm, rebuild safety, and break self-harming cycles.
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Trauma & PTSD
Support for hypervigilance, shutdown, dissociation, emotional triggers, and survival responses.
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Families Usually Come Here Carrying More Than Anyone Realizes
Some parents become consumed with fixing everything and spend every waking moment trying to prevent the next crisis.
Others are so overwhelmed that they stop reacting altogether because their nervous system cannot hold one more emergency.
Some families have spent years adapting around the crisis without realizing how much the entire system has changed in response to fear.
Christina’s work helps families separate what is urgent from what is noise. The goal is helping everyone become regulated enough to think clearly, respond intentionally, and stop living in constant emotional survival mode.
Parents are included throughout the process. Teens are treated with honesty and respect. Accountability exists on both sides.
Families often say they finally feel like someone understands the level of complexity they are carrying.
About Me
Christina Trujillo Sieren, LCSW
I specialize in therapy for high-risk adolescents, young adults, and families across California.
Families often describe my approach as trustworthy, supportive, challenging, and deeply human.
My work combines stabilization, trauma treatment, family systems therapy, and nervous system regulation to help families move from chaos toward connection and clarity.
How to Get Started
STEP 1
Schedule Onboarding Session
Share what has been happening, ask questions, and begin exploring the next steps.
STEP 2
Receive a
Clear Roadmap
Families receive Christina’s 6 Phases of Therapy to better understand the treatment process.
STEP 3
Begin Stabilization
& Healing
Therapy starts with reducing overwhelm, increasing safety, and creating movement forward.