I Believe
Do you worry about how to raise a good, kind, decent teenager? Does your teen drive you crazy? Are you looking for support during these difficult years?
Welcome to survivingteenyears.com!
Joy has worked as a family therapist for 20 years. She specializes in working with teens and their families. Joy sees the strengths and unique gifts in every client. Teens are being shaped by their friends, families, environment and society every day. A teen's sense of self is developing rapidly and is widely influenced by their social world.
Perhaps a parents greatest challenge in raising kids is learning how to provide the delicate balance of guiding their teen to successful interactions in their social world while allowing them to make mistakes along the way.
Joy understands a teens journey to independence and the impact this has within a family. She offers support, shows parents how to continue to love their sometimes difficult-to love-teens, and shares her humor along the way.
About Joy Hartman
Joy has worked as a Family Therapist specializing in teens and their families for 20 years. She has been shaped and inspired by the many families she has had the pleasure to meet and work with for the past two decades.
She holds a Bachelor of Social Work Degree from Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin where she developed her passion for working with people and core Social Work values.
Joy also holds a Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she developed highly specialized therapeutic skills and gained expertise in issues specific to teens and families.
Joy's expertise is finding individual strengths and showing each person how to use those strengths to improve their lives and relationships.
The journey to adulthood is complicated and full of life experiences for both the teen and those who love them!
Lean on all of the support, resources, education and humor you can find along the bumpy road!
Joy is in private practice in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
Give Joy a call at 262-251-1112 to schedule an appointment today.