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Relationships Resources for Teens & Young Adults

Relationships can be difficult to navigate when mental health concerns are involved, but Charlie Health offers many resources to help.

Teen & young adult relationships

Relationships can be difficult to navigate when also handling mental health issues. On top of that, unhealthy relationships can create or exacerbate conditions, making it difficult for teens and young adults to cope or find a safe space.

It’s important to identify when relationships are suffering because of internal issues, or when one becomes unhealthy or even abusive.

Teen & young adult relationship support

Learn more about relationships, from identifying red flags to learning how to be a supportive partner.

A Guide for How to Detach From Someone

Charlie Health Editorial Team

A couple, one is on the back of another, who are in love, not limerence.

Are You in Love or Is It Limerence?

Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young woman experiences narcissistic financial abuse and is learning ways to cope.

Narcissistic Financial Abuse Signs You Should Know (and Ways to Cope)

Alex Bachert, MPH

A young couple doesn't know if they are in love or if it is a trauma bond.

Are You in Love or Is It a Trauma Bond?

Charlie Health Editorial Team

Two siblings are navigating whether they have a sibling rivalry or a toxic relationship.

Do You Have a Sibling Rivalry or a Toxic Sibling?

Ethan Cohen BSN, RN

A teenager is having conflict avoidance and wants to know what it looks like and what to do about it.

Here’s What Conflict Avoidance Looks Like (and What to Do About It)

Sarah Fielding

A young woman is having relationship issues due to attachment trauma.

Is Attachment Trauma Causing Your Relationship Issues?

Sarah Fielding

A young couple walks away from the train. They are experiencing separation anxiety in their relationship and are interested in ways to cope.

What Separation Anxiety in Relationships Looks Like (and How to Cope)

Sarah Fielding

A young teenager sits with her friend. She is hyperfixating on her friend.

6 Tips to Stop Hyperfixating on a Person

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young couple sit on their couch at home. The female realizes her partner gaslights her in their relationship.

What Gaslighting in a Relationship Actually Looks Like

Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young man looks out of his window upset. He wants to fix his attachment issues and us using therapist-approved tips to do this.

5 Therapist-Approved Tips for How to Fix Attachment Issues

Sarah Fielding

A young woman and man argue at home. Stonewalling could be hurting their relationship.

Stonewalling Could Be Hurting Your Relationship

Ashley Laderer

A chosen family of three teen friends sit together smiling

Why Chosen Family Is Important During the Holidays (and Year Round)

Ashley Laderer

A young woman sits on the couch, away from her boyfriend. She is in an abusive relationship and is feeling like it is so hard to leave.

Why Are Abusive Relationships So Hard to Leave?

Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young woman sits at her home. She is a survivor of intimate partner violence and it has affected her mental health.

Here’s How Intimate Partner Violence Impacts Survivors’ Mental Health

Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young teen boy deals sits with his parents who are not taking care of his needs

Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style: What You Need to Know

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A teen girl in glasses sits at her computer dealing with anxiety

Do You Have an Anxious Attachment Style?

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young female in a white shirt wearing a colorful headband. She has been single for a long time and has encountered some psychological effects from it.

7 Psychological Effects of Being Single for a Long Time

Charlie Health Editorial Team

Attachment Style Quiz

Charlie Health Editorial Team

Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship

Alex Bachert, MPH

A woman in a white shirt cries while holding the hand of her partner with whom she is codependent.

Codependency: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and More

Charlie Health Editorial Team

A person with OCD sits at a desk smiling in an orange shirt and another person sits next to her.

The Impact of OCD on Relationships

Ethan Cohen BSN, RN

Two young people smile while looking at a phone as they watch TikTok videos of beige flags.

What Is A Beige Flag?

Charlie Health Editorial Team

A person dealing with reactive abuse in her relationship crosses her arms as she looks at her partner.

What Is Reactive Abuse?

Alex Bachert, MPH

Couple talking to each other looking sad

Idealization and Devaluation: What You Need To Know

Ethan Cohen BSN, RN

What is Masking?

Charlie Health Editorial Team

Consent 101

Sarah Fielding

Couple in the middle of a fight look away from each other

How Toxic Relationships Affect Your Mental Health

Charlie Health Editorial Team

How Do You Ask for Affirmative Consent?

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

Dating After Sexual Assault

Alex Bachert, MPH

An individual struggling with narcissistic abuse sits alone

Signs and Symptoms of the Narcissistic Abuse Cycle

Sarah duRivage-Jacobs

A young woman in an unhealthy relationship is love bombed by her boyfriend.

What is Love Bombing?

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young man stares off into the distance thinking about his fear of commitment

Why Do People Have a Phobia of Commitment?

Charlie Health Editorial Team

A young woman with a secure attachment style sits on a peer by a lake looking off into the distance

Do You Have a Secure Attachment Style?

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A young teen male sits with his back toward his mother avoiding conflict

Do You Have an Avoidant Attachment Style?

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

A father stands with his arm wrapped around his teenage daughter

What Are the Four Attachment Styles?

Dr. Rasna Kaur Neelam

Understanding Intimate Partner Violence for Teens

Alex Bachert, MPH

Teen & young adult relationship treatment

Developing and maintaining healthy relationships is one of the biggest outcomes we work towards in our client’s mental health treatment plans. Many therapies can help improve self-awareness and contribute to healthier relationships.

Cognitive behavioral therapy helps teens and young adults better understand their thoughts and feelings. They can begin to recognize patterns within themselves and become more comfortable with who they are. Increased confidence is a natural result of CBT and serves as a foundation for better relationships in the future.

Getting help with relationships

In addition to individual therapy, Charlie Health clients also participate in family therapy and supportive group therapy sessions to build their relationship skills.