Therapy for Young Adults

While everyone’s experience is different, there are some common challenges many young people face:

• Figuring out life purpose and career: There can be a lot of pressure to find a job, carve out a career path, make the “right” moves. You may feel like you’re supposed to have figured it all out already, or that your peers are all ahead of you. It can all feel so overwhelming. How do you decide what to do with the rest of your life? (Hint: You don’t have to figure out what to do with the rest of your life — just the next step!)

• Grappling with identity, sexuality, spirituality, politics, and more: Young adulthood can be a time of exploring what it means to be you in all sorts of ways. From making sense of your cultural, racial, and intergenerational inheritances, to exploring your gender identity and sexuality, to clarifying your values around politics, religion, or spiritual beliefs, it can be a lot. But this is a great time to be asking these questions.

• Navigating relationships: Whether you’re struggling with friends, lovers, family members, or all of the above, you deserve to have a space to sort through your feelings. Therapy can help you identify your own patterns, clarify your needs, improve communication, and enjoy more satisfying relationships.

• Questioning the status quo: You may have noticed that our world is going through some tumultuous times. It seems like everywhere you look there are problems, and no one’s figured out how to solve them. You may feel like you want to change the world, and maybe you even have some ideas about how you could help, but you’re overwhelmed and not sure how to make your contribution. You may feel disillusioned and demoralized at times, optimistic and inspired at others, or maybe you just feel like your default mode is “confused.” If you’re feeling this way, know that you’re not alone, and it’s understandable to be feeling a lot right now.

• Being true to you: You want to live a life that feels authentic to you and in line with your values. But there are pressures to conform to what’s expected of you, to do what you “should” do. How can you sort through all the noise and figure out what’s right for you? How do you even figure out what you value? And if you have an inkling of what’s right for you, how can you find the courage to take those first steps towards the life you want to live?