Teen Counseling

What Teen Counseling does

Parenting Teenagers Academy, operating under the Teen Counseling brand, is a sole-proprietorship counseling and life coaching practice founded and operated by Sam Miller. Over a 20-year career, Miller has built a direct-to-consumer practice serving parents of adolescents and the teenagers themselves, addressing behavioral concerns including anger, rebellion, defiance, depression, anxiety, technology addiction, academic struggles, and substance abuse.

The service is delivered without any proprietary technology platform, exclusively through one-on-one phone and video sessions conducted by the founder. The offering includes a free 30-minute initial consultation used to qualify prospects, followed by paid session packages priced at $500 for four one-hour sessions, with payment processed through PayPal. Because all sessions are remote, the practice operates with no geographic restrictions on delivery, though marketing content is published in English and targets English-speaking audiences.

Customer acquisition is driven primarily by content marketing through the Parenting Teenagers Academy blog, which covers dozens of teen-parenting topics, supplemented by direct email inquiry. The business is privately held with no external funding, no partnerships, no physical office locations, and a headcount of one. There are no patents, certifications, regulatory actions, or technology integrations disclosed. The value proposition rests entirely on the founder's personal experience, credibility as a former troubled youth, and reported 85% success rate in opening up initially resistant teens during initial sessions.

Name

Teen Counseling

Legal name

Parenting Teenagers Academy

Website

https://parentingteenagersacademy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Parenting Teenagers Academy, operating as Teen Counseling, is a solo practitioner counseling and life coaching service founded by Sam Miller. It provides one-on-one remote phone and video sessions to parents and troubled teenagers addressing behavioral, emotional, and motivational issues.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Teen Counseling and Life Coaching Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Child and Youth Services (62411), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health for Children & Adolescents (Youth Services) (HLAFACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

School Counseling Services (EDAJAIAA), School Psychology Services & Psychoeducational Support (EDAKAMAC)

Keywords

• Teen counseling services
• Parent coaching services
• Adolescent life coaching
• Behavioral counseling teens
• Family counseling remote

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Counseling and Coaching Sessions: Fee-for-service model delivering one-on-one phone and video counseling/coaching sessions for parents and their teenagers. Sessions address behavioral issues, emotional problems, family communication, and teen development challenges. Revenue is transactional per session with package pricing for four sessions.

Pricing tiers

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Core offering

Teen Counseling provides one-on-one counseling and life coaching for parents and their teenagers, delivered remotely by founder Sam Miller via phone or video. Sessions address teen behavioral issues (anger, defiance, rebellion), emotional problems (depression, anxiety), academic struggles, technology addiction, and substance abuse education, with a focus on helping teens transition to healthy, self-motivated young adults and rebuilding parent-teen relationships. Service structure: free 30-minute initial consultation, then paid packages of four 1-hour sessions at $500.

Product overview

Teen Counseling operates as a service offered within the Parenting Teenagers Academy brand, founded by Sam Miller. The core offerings include one-on-one teen counseling sessions and life coaching services designed to help teenagers overcome behavioral, emotional, and motivational challenges. The service structure includes a free initial consultation followed by paid session packages. Counseling addresses issues such as depression, anger, defiance, addiction, and anxiety, while coaching focuses on helping teens develop responsibility, motivation, and life skills. Sessions are conducted remotely via phone or video, with pricing at $500 for four 1-hour sessions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Teen Counseling Services One-on-one counseling sessions with Sam Miller for troubled teenagers, addressing depression, anger, addiction, defiance, anxiety, and behavioral problems. Sessions are conducted remotely via phone or video and aimed at parents seeking professional support for their adolescent children.
• Life Coaching for Teens Coaching services designed to help teenagers transition into healthy, responsible young adults by addressing motivation, behavior, academics, communication skills, and life purpose. Delivered one-on-one by Sam Miller via phone or video.
• Free 30-Minute Phone Consultation Initial 30-minute phone consultation offered free of charge to determine whether the coaching and counseling services are a good fit for the family's situation before purchasing a session package.
• Teen Counseling Session Package (Four 1-Hour Sessions) Package of four 1-hour phone or video counseling/coaching sessions priced at $500, including email progress updates to parents. Sessions are delivered by Sam Miller and serve as the core paid offering of the practice.

Quantifiable outcome

• 85% of teens who initially resist counseling open up after initial sessions

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Broad incumbents

• BetterHelp: The largest direct-to-consumer online counseling platform, offering licensed therapy via subscription messaging and live sessions. Operates a 'Teen Counseling' sub-brand that is the most direct comparison point for the subject company's offering and positioning, though at vastly greater scale and with licensed clinicians on a platform model.
• Talkspace: Publicly traded online therapy platform serving individuals, couples, and teens via messaging and live sessions, including through insurance and EAP channels. Comparable on remote D2C teen counseling delivery and pricing model, but at enterprise scale with a licensed clinician network.

Direct peers

• Empowering Parents: Content-driven parenting resource combined with one-on-one coaching programs for parents of difficult or defiant teens. Closely mirrors the subject company's blog-plus-coaching model, niche (troubled-teen parents), and D2C positioning without the clinical/insurance layer.
• Dr. Michele Borba: Parenting expert offering books, courses, and speaking built on a personal brand in child/teen behavioral and emotional development. Comparable in the personal-brand-driven, content-plus-services monetization model targeting parents of struggling children and teens.
• Brave Parenting: Solo-expert parenting coaching practice focused on raising confident, resilient children and teens. Mirrors the subject company's content-plus-coaching model, personal-brand GTM, and targeting of parents navigating challenging teen behaviors.

Emerging players

• Total Life Changes: Life coaching and personal development company with coach-based service delivery. Comparable as a solo-practitioner-style life coaching business operating at small scale, though it operates across broader life domains rather than the teen-parenting niche.
• Family Coaching Institute / The Family Coach Institute: Coaching practice focused on teen and family dynamics with parent coaching and teen support services. Direct overlap on the family/teen coaching niche, customer segment, and remote delivery model, though it operates with a small team rather than a single practitioner.
• The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding (CPYU): Organization providing resources, counseling, and training to help parents and youth navigate adolescent development and cultural issues. Comparable in mission and target audience (parents and teens), though operating in a nonprofit/educational context rather than solo-practitioner D2C.
• Mantality Health: Telehealth mental health provider offering therapy and psychiatry for adolescents and adults. Comparable in the remote, D2C delivery of mental health support for teens, though operating as a multi-clinician practice with insurance participation.

Others

• YourTherapySource: Resource and content site for parents and professionals addressing children's behavioral, emotional, and learning challenges. Comparable as a content-driven entry point for parents of struggling children, though it functions primarily as an information/affiliate hub rather than a service provider.

Market position

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Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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