Therapy for Young Adults & Millennials In CA & FL

Our generation has had it rough. Many variables we had no control over significantly impacted our social, emotional, relationship, and career development. The 2008 recession that hit just as millennials were entering the workforce. We’ve faced a global pandemic, decades-long wars, and the proliferation of social media. These have have left us feeling “behind” compared to other generations. The lack of acknowledgement from other generations of these very real stressors and setbacks can make us feel like we’re complaining or “did this to ourselves.” But we’ve actually had it pretty rough!

Working with a young adult therapist can help you work through your specific trauma, relationship issues, and help you create a life that aligns with your values and hopes. Reducing anxiety and burnout can go a long way in helping you feel like you’ve built a life you can be proud of.

You can address just about anything in therapy! As holistic therapists, we want to get the full picture of your life. Common issues are anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, burnout, grief, and feelings of overwhelm.

If we’re not the right therapist for your specific issue, we’ll be honest with you and refer you to someone who can help you feel better. If we do that, it’s because we want you to get the absolute best care and we can’t be specialists in everything. If a therapist says they can work with anyone and any issue, be skeptical.

Working with a young adult therapist is a great place to start. But even some young adult therapists don’t understand the full picture of what our generation is up against. We often feel like the circumstances that set us back are our fault. A good young adult therapist can look at your experience on both a large and small scale and help you reconcile what work is yours to do and what is not your responsibility.

Yes, research conclusively has proven that teletherapy is as effective as in person therapy for most issues. We understand that some people have a personal preference for one or the other, but from an effectiveness standpoint, in person therapy and online therapy are equal.

The differences are largely positive; with teletherapy, you don’t have to commute, sit in traffic, find parking, or take extra time out of your busy schedule to meet with your therapist. We think that’s a huge plus. You can also continue therapy when you’re sick, traveling, or injured. This allows you to build good momentum with your therapeutic work and see results faster.

In our many years of offering therapy for young adults, we remain focused on the single most important thing in all our lives: relationships. When our friendships, family relationships, work relationship, and romantic relationships are good, we feel good. When those relationships need work or are missing, we feel worse. We’ve helped many young adults balance dating, relationship stress, and setting healthy boundaries. It’s one of the most important things to address in therapy.

Absolutely. Burnout is fundamentally a misalignment in time and energy allocation in favor of work. While you may not be able to take time off, therapy can help you reallocate your resources and do more of what matters to you while still performing well at work.

Furthermore, therapy can help young adults unpack the deeply held beliefs about self-worth and purpose that bleed into the workplace and create imbalances. We can also help you handle difficult relationships at work that make burnout more exhausting.

A rough patch deserves support through therapy the same way a mental health issues does. At our practice, we’ve long since moved away from a model that fixates on diagnosis as the central reason for therapy. We believe in a holistic model of care that looks at your physical, behavioral, social, and inner wellness. If you are going through a rough patch but don’t think you qualify for a “full” diagnosis, therapy can absolutely help. And if you’re pretty sure you’ve got a diagnosis, you’re fully welcome here.

That’s totally normal. It would be weird if you felt fully comfortable talking to a stranger about deeply personal issues right away. Our style of therapy focuses heavily on the quality of your relationship with your therapist. We know that all relationships are built over time and through careful consideration and effort by both people.

If you’re not comfortable, discuss this with your therapist. They might need to shift something they’re doing. If it’s not something to do with the relationship to your therapist, there is likely some messaging or feelings of fear and anxiety that can be talked about and worked through before discussing the content.

If there was a magic recipe, we’d bottle it and make it available to everyone. But alas, everyone needs to find their own personal combination of physical, behavioral, social, and personal self-care.

Over our many years of offering therapy for millennials, we’ve gotten pretty good at helping people figure it out! There are often many things that get in the way, and only so many hours in the day. We aim for significant progress rather than perfection.