Do You Need Help Navigating Change As A Young Adult?

Are you a young professional who is at a crossroads in your career or relationship and looking for support making decisions that align with your ambitions and abilities? Are you a college student or recent graduate looking for guidance as you search for a career path or life plan that will help you achieve your goals?

Perhaps you constantly compare yourself to your friends’ accomplishments and feel that you are not living up to your fullest potential. You may worry about accomplishing your dreams, making a difference in the world, or finding the right person to spend your life with. Or maybe you are struggling to get out of a toxic or oppressive relationship with your parents but feel guilty for leaving or doing things your own way.

If this sounds familiar, you may feel stressed out about the future or anxious about making the right choices. You may even feel like you are stuck in a situation you can’t improve—or get out of. But navigating this new territory in your life isn’t something you have to do alone.

Would you like the guidance of a skilled professional who can help you realize your potential and give you the confidence to make life changes and decisions that can lead you to success and happiness?

Making Early Life Decisions Is Understandably Stressful

The transition into adulthood is difficult for almost everyone. There are so many new elements of life young adults encounter in these early years that understanding and navigating them can be overwhelming.

Young people today deal with the stress of living in a highly competitive culture that casts unreasonable portrayals of what the good life looks like—or requires. Often, you are exposed to unrealistic expectations for happiness and success from the entertainment industry, your friends’ social media posts—perhaps even from your parents.

This can be especially true if you are living in high-stress environments, such as New York City, where the drive to excel and match the success of your peers is a way of life. As they say, “The prestigious job, the spouse, the apartment in Park Slope, the happy little children and the dog—the local culture says you have to have it all or you've failed.”

And if you are dealing with depression, anxiety, or a traumatic history, navigating this part of your life can be even more difficult. Any one of these stressors can make a young person’s journey through early adulthood a fearful and lonely experience.

If you are struggling to find your place in the world or feel like your life is in crisis, you are certainly not alone. In a 2018 study by Dr. Oliver Robertson, senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, a whopping 6 in 10 millennials claim to be suffering from a quarter-life crisis, and only 37% know where to turn to for help.

Fortunately, help is available right here. By working with a kind and caring professional, you can define both what you truly want and need while developing the confidence to act.

The Benefits Of Early Adult Life Transitions Counseling

Psychotherapy gives you a safe and compassionate space to explore any conflict or confusion that may be causing distress or keeping you stuck in an unfavorable situation. It also provides you with emotional support as well as a mentor who can help you find practical solutions for the challenges you face. Counseling for young adults can help you develop the strength and insight needed to make sound and informed decisions that will ultimately help you make or manage changes in your life.

In a non-judgmental space devoted to healing and progress, we will begin our work together by exploring the nature of your situation. I will help you identify and understand underlying factors from the past that may be influencing your behaviors or beliefs in the present. I can also show you how to restructure negative thought patterns, which may be holding you back, into something empowering.

In my early adult counseling, I serve as a mentor who can offer you clarity in your problem-solving. I guide you to the root of a problem and show you how to tap into your wise, inner-self, who knows you and what is best for you. Working together, we can devise a strategy for changing the things you can and—coming to terms with those things that you cannot.

I understand that we all come from different backgrounds and face different problems, which is why I take great care in getting to know what drives each of my client’s issues. Using an insight-oriented approach to healing, I can help you get to the core of your distress.

If fear and doubt are preventing you from taking a step in your relationship, career, or family life, early adult life transitions therapy can help you understand where those feelings come from. And it can show you how to reframe your thoughts into something that creates positive change.

Whether you need an exploratory approach or a solution-focused perspective, I can tailor your healing strategy to you personally. Together, we will uncover your deep inner-strengths so you have the courage to pursue that which really makes you happy. And we will draw on your innate resilience to help you develop the flexibility to bounce back from obstacles in your way.

Change, whether the kind we loathe or long for, is an opportunity for personal growth. Psychotherapy allows you to take advantage of this opportunity and drop old coping habits, challenge distorted self-perceptions, and develop adult life skills that will help you make decisions confidently. In doing so, you can build the emotional intelligence to find peace with those things you cannot change and the intellectual ability to shape your life according to your ideals.

You may be considering early adult life transitions counseling but still have some concerns…

Will I be in therapy forever?

If you have a good relationship with your therapist and open yourself up to the possibility of change, you can often move through the healing process quickly. Many of the challenges people face in early adulthood are situational and can be addressed realistically and sensibly in a short time.

However, if you are dealing with anxiety, depression, or trauma, it may require a deeper level of emotional support and healing, as well as a little more time. Regardless of your situation, my goal is to give you the tools that will empower you to take control of your life and become your own therapist.

What about the financial cost?

I encourage you to think about all the money you may have spent on food, alcohol, gaming, or material possessions and ask yourself if you have invested as much in your personal well-being. Early adult life transitions counseling is an investment in yourself, your career, your relationships, and nearly every aspect of your life. You have your whole life before you, and learning how to head off problems now can pay off well into the future.

I don’t think that therapy is going to help.

If you are having an early life crisis, feeling powerless and stuck is likely obscuring any signs of hope. But I assure you, I know from personal experience, just how effective and important early intervention can be.

As a clinical psychologist who has worked with children, teens and adults of all ages, I know the developmental challenges my clients face. With my help, I truly believe you can change the way you look at your life and take advantage of the possibilities that lie ahead.

Let Me Help You Find Your Way

If you are struggling with a life transition and want to make sure you are doing everything to achieve your goals, I can help. Please call 646-620-9940 or contact me for your free 15-minute consultation. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have about life transitions therapy for young adults and how it could help you.

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