College and Young Adult Patients
College Students, Recent Graduates & Young Adults
Are you in college or a recent graduate? We love providing therapy to young adults as they navigate this exciting and nerve wracking time moving from childhood to adulthood.
Our college age clients often struggle with worries about the future, perfectionism, relationship challenges with family & friends, social anxiety and questions about their identity. We often work with young adults who had therapy in high school but did not previously find therapy helpful (often due to a lack of agency in picking their therapist, misunderstanding or invalidation of their experiences, disruptions in confidentiality or lack of concrete coping skills/goals worked on). We provide a reparative experience where clients feel genuinely supported and able to advocate and ask for what they need.
We use a variety of different therapy modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical-Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Attachment Based Therapy, EMDR, Goal-Oriented Therapy and Mindfulness. These help our clients move towards a feeling of confidence, improved relationships and belief in their abilities to handle any challenges that may come their way.
Increasing Independence for Young Adults / “Failure to Launch”
We also work with young adults and college age individuals who are having difficulty becoming independent from their parents or in a cycle known as “failure to launch.” We find the term “failure to launch” as putting a lot of blame on young adults themselves when in reality as a society we do not prepare our adolescents to move towards independence.
Both parents and young adults often need support gaining skills to move towards independence in a step-wise manner. Many young adults go from having lots of parental support in High School to suddenly being expected to take on all adult responsibilities without any transition. We help clients and parents figure out steps to take towards their goals while also recognizing how mental health may make this even more challenging. Anxiety, ASD, ADHD, Depression and other diagnoses are often large barriers which compound the difficulties young adults need to overcome to move towards independence.