Therapy for Young Adults in Cedar City | Online Counseling Across Utah
You can trust yourself.
Tired of working so hard to barely hold it together?
Do you ever try so hard to get through a day that you fall apart as soon as you get home? Do you often feel lonely and like you have to act certain ways in order to be liked or accepted? It can feel hard to connect or feel confident when what’s going on inside is miles away from how you are trying to show up.
Unlock: Confidence, deeper relationships, and authenticity.
How Therapy for Young Adults Works
the stressors you’ve been facing:
Living on your own or establishing yourself in a new place
Beginning college or starting a new job
Dating and building new friendships
Processing childhood trauma
Exploring your identity
Figuring out what you truly believe versus what you’ve been told
Striving to meet expectations that others seem to manage easily
Seeing social media posts that make your 20s look like the best time of your life
It can all feel like a pressure cooker.
start Getting support:
While therapy for young adults can provide support, the idea of “going deep” may seem intimidating or uncomfortable. It’s normal to feel hesitant.
In therapy with me, you’ll find a non-judgmental, affirming space where it’s okay to be messy and not have everything together.
I don’t expect you to trust me right away. Instead, we’ll explore why trusting can be hard and address any hesitations you might have.
I collaborate with my clients and tailor sessions to address what’s coming up for you and the issues that you feel are most important.
Together, we’ll work through your doubts, emotions, and challenges, and help you build the capacity to manage it all.
Therapy can guide you toward:
Feeling more peace and joy in your daily life
Discovering your own answers and developing confidence in expressing them
Connecting with your entire self, including the messy parts you may struggle with
Gaining insight, resilience, and the power to choose how you want to show up in the world
This work can be the foundation for building confidence and feeling empowered in your life.
Therapy can help you...
Figure out who you are and what you want for yourself.
Stop being so hard on yourself.
Feel more confident, at peace, and connected.
Stop reacting in ways you don't like.
Communicate more clearly.
Have more control.
Frequently asked questions about therapy For young adults
FAQs
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I totally understand being nervous when starting therapy with someone new. I don’t expect you to trust me right away–I’m a complete stranger so that would be absurd. I encourage you to test out how being vulnerable with me feels—start by dipping your toes in the water, not jumping in the deep end. An approach I often take is to explore why it might be hard to trust new people and go from there. (Also, discussing why trust is hard is an example of ‘doing the work’ because looking at how our past experiences flavor our perceptions of the world and the choices were currently making everyday is a huge part of therapy.)
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I love working with young adults because they are old enough to develop insight and do deeper therapeutic work and young enough that patterns of thinking/feeling/behavior can shift before coming deeply entrenched. It can be a lot harder to change when you’ve been a certain way for decades.
I also love the work of exploring identity and who we are as a human beings. Developmentally this is literally the job of early adulthood, so the themes that come up for many young adults are a passion to of mine to explore. I’ve been working with this population since 2016.
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The key to building emotional resilience is shifting our perspective from seeing certain emotions as problems to get past to understanding that our emotions hold messages and information for us. Even the hard ones.
For example, loneliness can be painful and immobilizing but it also can hold the wisdom that we want more connection in our life. That we want to be seen and accepted and loved for who we are. When we begin to acknowledge that desire–versus ignore the painful emotion that shows us it’s there–we can begin to address what gets in the way of experiencing deep and nourishing connection. Emotions are expressing something important to us.
So emotional resilience is building our capacity to sit with and listen to the emotions. In therapy, I lend my curiosity to clients to help them explore emotions instead of battle, outperform, avoid, and “fix” them. Getting curious about emotions and learning through experience what they are, that it is okay to acknowledge them, and actually start feeling them are key parts of building resilience.