Dennis Lines
Author & Supervised Youth Counsellor 

Dennis Lines is a fully-trained and supervised youth counsellor with skills in individual and group therapy.

He is the author of Brief Counselling in Schools, Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy and The Bullies.

Being a Teenager
As young people pass through school there can be many trials and tensions that occur in all families and whilst most navigate or muddle their way through some young people and parents benefit from counselling support.

Being a teenager is both exciting and challenging and not all youngsters have the personal resources to cope with this transition easily. Pupils find friendship-bonding important but also troublesome at times.

Bullying can occur and low level name-calling and text messaging can erode a youngster’s confidence. Dennis has also trained teams of peer counsellors to help youngsters to deal with their inter-peer relationships, particularly those in the lower years of school.

At times parents need support in knowing how best to manage their children, particularly when they become challenging and when they test the boundaries. Dennis is quite happy to meet with parents – with or without their youngsters present – to help resolve family tensions. Sadly, bereavement and personal loss can cause family upheaval, where the normal smooth running of family life is temporarily knocked off course, and counselling may be necessary in assisting individuals to accept change and to make an adjustment to new circumstances.

Depression - Frustration

Some youngsters become depressed and become so overburdened with worry that they do not know where to turn, particularly if their peers are unable to support them. 

This inevitably leads to a lowering of achievement and the potential to learn. Others display a whole range of challenging behaviours, which are difficult to live with at times, and which are stressful for parents to have to manage. Dennis is available for parents just as he is for teenagers.

Dennis suffered a spinal injury accident in 1986, and his story of rehabilitation is recorded in his book, Coming through the Tunnel.