Is there anyway to see a therapist without parental consent?

Question

I want to improve myself, but I dont want to stress my parents out... (I think that I might have social anxiety disorder.) I'm 13

Answer 1

Talk to your schoold counselor..  Every school has a couselor and a pshychiatrist.  You can go to the office and request a meeting with a counselor and they don't have to call your parents.  BUt if you social anxiety is really bad, there is a possibility that you could need medicine that the school can't give you. My daughter has anxiety,and she does see an outside therapist, but she also has a counselor that she sees at school and I never know when she has seen her or what they talk about.  My daughter doesn't tell me and the school doesn't either.

Answer 2

go to your school counselor when you go back to school if you haven't already, they can help you out on a lot of things, and let you know their opinion and see if you can go to a counselor  

Answer 3

Not really, no.

Answer 4

You can definitely go to the doctors without parents knowing, and I assume they can give you a referral too, in confidence.  I would expect them to encourage you to talk to your parents, but that would be your choice to make.  Have you thought about talking to a friends parents about this...someone you trust?

Good luck with this though, x