Young Adult Counseling
You've recently graduated and you're wondering, what's next?
You've moved away from family or are worried about managing the stress of being on your own, starting a career, seeking further education.
Maintaining friendships and building community just isn't the same.
You scroll through social media and your friends seem to be getting engaged, buying houses, and starting families while you feel lost and unsure about the future.
All of this change is taking a toll on your mental health & you want some support.
Our therapists can help you navigate transitions with confidence, clarity, and self-compassion.
Getting connected with a therapist takes less time than your Starbucks order.
You can get reconnected to your goals and feel better about your life.
Don't let self-doubt, regret, confusion, and endless comparison rule your 20's.
Individual counseling for young adults can help...
Which of the following sound true for you or your teen?
SELF ASSESSMENT FOR YOUNG ADULTS
How to Get Started with
Young Adult Counseling:
Getting started is as simple as completing our 5-minute
Intake Pre-screen where you will:
- Briefly share with us why you're seeking services and your presenting concerns.
- Complete a brief risk assessment to ensure you're not at risk for harm to yourself or others.
- Schedule your initial appointment, or a complimentary 15-minute consultation, to ensure you are connecting to the service and provider that’s the best fit for you immediately after you submit your Intake Pre-screen.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS for teens)
There isn't a single definition for "young adult." You might get a different answer from different people. Generally, young adulthood is considered to start at 18 or 19 and end in your mid-to-late 20s (some say 25 while others say young adulthood extends until 30). It gets even more confusing when you hear that is starts around age 12.
Are you feeling even more confused? Perhaps a better way to understand young adulthood is by understanding some of the common experiences young adults are facing. These include:
- Graduation from high school or college
- Beginning a career or getting an "adult job"
- Navigating romantic relationships, engagement, marriage
- Moving away from home or navigating continuing to live with family
- Building adult relationships with parents and caregivers
- Starting a family, having children, parenting young kids
- "Adulting" (taxes, retirement savings, insurance)
- Finding a home or thinking about large purchases
This isn't an easy answer because there are a lot of possibilities. Young adulthood is filled with transitions and change which can be stressful. Sometimes young adults are facing experiences that they don't feel like childhood prepared them for.
Young adulthood can include more independence which might also mean less support. It can be more difficult to make friends. Family may be far away. More responsibility paired with challenges in building meaningful relationships can be isolating and leave you feeling overwhelmed.
Childhood can have a lot of structure with school, sports, and adults telling you what to do. Young adulthood doesn't have that same structure. There are a lot of choices about how you want to live your life. It can feel like a lot of pressure to make the "right" decisions.
For some people, young adulthood provides a chance to explore their identity. That can mean questioning one's faith, the end of relationships, and feeling confused. This can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety, or doubt that wasn't experienced in adulthood.
Young adults now are also facing unique pressures like economic recession, inflation, living during a pandemic, political and social unrest, social media, and more. Young adulthood can be stressful, but you don't have to face it alone. Work with one of our providers to build confidence in your ability to deal with the different challenges you face now and in the future.
We can't deny it, social media has brought a lot more attention to mental health. In some ways, this has decreased stigma and helped people learn about options for improving their mental health. There are even mental health professionals putting out great content on social media!
However, there are ways that social media may be negatively impacting your mental health too. Social media has introduced us to FOMO and a culture of comparison. You jump on for a quick scroll and your feed is filled with images of friends seemingly living much more exciting lives than you. This can absolutely take a toll on your mental health.
Social media has also created a "constantly connected" culture where we have access to each other seemingly 24/7. Don't get us wrong, connection is super important and we are big proponents of community care. However, all of us need time to disconnect and recharge. Connections on social media can also feel so disconnected.
And, while there is a lot of incredible content out there, there is also some content that is misinformed or even malicious. Photoshopped and posed images create unrealistic expectations. Content creators may share contradicting messages which is confusing. Even content that is working to educate about mental illness can make you feel like you have every condition out there. This can all lead to worry, sadness, feeling overwhelmed, and not knowing where to go.
Working with a licensed mental health professional can help you sort through all of the social media messaging to better understand yourself.
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