I'm pretty new to receiving therapy, (began my own just a month ago, 1 session a week). I feel that both my daughter and I could use it due to the abuse from her dad here in the home.
However, I feel because I'm new to it, I can't "push" it onto my daughter and hope for positive results, even though I know she can use it for her own self.

Instead, I have taken her with me to my sessions so that she can see for herself the benefits of therapy, (so long as you find a T that you click with, which I have).
I feel that strategy has worked out wonderfully, as my daughter has decided that she, too, can benefit from it and has asked to begin therapy of her own.

I know of many teens (my dot's online friends), who have expressed to me of their depressions, stresses, and thoughts of self harm/suicide.
It's a crying shame that so many teens are under such duress and who have parents who either turn a blind eye to their needs, or are incapable of being receptive to them.
The best I can do is to listen, suggest they turn to school counselors, if not to their parents, or the teen hotlines and check back with them to see how they're doing.

The #1 complaint of theirs is that their parents either do not have the time to attend to them, or that they don't understand...

Shangrala