Counseling for Life Stressors
Life stressors can be any kind of transition that you have in your life. If you are feeling a bit lost, hopeless, or emotionally upset about those changes, then counseling for life stressors could be helpful. Perhaps your job situation has changed, or your children are leaving the house, or you have to move away from what you know. These changes can create sadness, worry, or feeling overwhelmed. Many times some support around life stressors and transitions can assist you in growing and managing those changes better.
Life stressors and transitions are a common occurrence for most people. With change being a constant in life, stressors may come up frequently. While many times we can cope on our own with those changes, other times it is helpful to reach out to an objective, unconditionally supportive professional to help you as you move through these changes. I’m happy that you are looking into reaching out for support around life stressors!
You deserve to feel supported.
You may feel overwhelmed with one big life stressor, or a combination of several life stressors happening at once. It can put you off kilter, or make you miss your old self, or wish for simpler times before the transition happened. It can be upsetting, sad, and discombobulating to have stressors interrupt the flow of your life.
Counseling for life stressors can provide you with a safe space where you can share and feel supported, gain new skills to manage challenges, and explore who you are now and who you want to be. You deserve to feel supported and to manage your life stressors with the help of skillful counseling.
How Individual Counseling for Life Stressors Works
First, schedule a free consultation where we can determine if we’re a good fit and if counseling for life stressors can help you. We’ll talk about reasons you are reaching out for counseling and what your hopes are for the outcome of counseling.
The next step includes discussing more about your symptoms and your history. I’ll ask some questions and do quite a bit of listening so that you have space to share your experiences and your story. I welcome questions about counseling for life stressors too!
After step 2, we will work together to create counseling goals and a plan of what you want to achieve during our time together. We’ll also talk about some of the challenges you may have and strategies to manage them.
In our following sessions, we will focus on your counseling goals and our plan for your counseling outcome. If your adjustment to your life stressor(s) does not improve, or if new challenges arise, we will talk about those and address them as necessary.
Frequently Asked Questions
+ Do I need counseling for life stressors?
Life stressors affect us all. If you are struggling to cope with a life stressor, such as a change in job, alteration in some other area of your life, or an adjustment you are making, then counseling for life stressors may be for you. If you are uncertain if counseling could help you at this point in time, I welcome you to contact me for a free 20 minute consultation to help you decide if counseling would be helpful.
+ How can counseling for life stressors help me?
Counseling for life stressors can assist you to learn tools to better manage the adjustment that life stressors typically cause. Coping skills, managing related anxiety, and having a safe place to process your stressors can be beneficial. Whether it is one stressor or many, there is hope that working with a skilled, collaborative, warm counselor can help make the stressor more manageable.
+ How do I start therapy with you?
It's easy! Please just call my office number, email me, or fill out the contact form on the Contact Page. We can schedule a free 20 minute consultation to see if we would be a good fit to work together.