Therapy For Adults
about adult counseling:
Perhaps you’re a young adult in college and having a hard time balancing school and relationships or you are an adult transitioning into the working world and finding that it is not everything you had hoped it would be. You may be an older adult and you find that you’ve found success in your career but continue to experience relationship issues, anxiety, or depression, or you have a hard time juggling family life with your professional responsibilities. Whenever there is a life event, such as graduating from college, getting married, having a baby, a breakup, a career change, etc. you feel some form of stress. Professionals have a hard time adulting, as their life transitions into something new.
We help our adult clients by coming up with ways they can cope with this stress in a healthy way. This is a time in your life where there are constant decisions that need to be made. It is common to constantly compare yourself to others your age. You may fear that you are making the wrong decisions and do not know what your future holds. These are all common fears for adults, especially young adults, to experience.
SIGNS THAT YOU MAY NEED THERAPY:
You may benefit from adult counseling, if you resonate with one or more of the following signs:
Angry
Irritable
Impulsive
Anxious
Worried often
Depressed or sad
Experiencing a change in appetite
Sleeping too much or not getting enough sleep
Struggling at school or work
Having difficulties in your relationships
No longer interested in activities you usually enjoy
Anxious about social interactions
Lacking concentration
Experiencing low self-esteem
A perfectionist
Experiencing test taking anxiety
Going through a divorce
Questioning your career or school choices
Overwhelmed parenting
Experiencing grief or loss
Is it normal to feel lost as a young adult or young professional?
Absolutely. Everyone has felt lost at some point in their life, and it is common for that to happen once you are just starting out in life. This is a time in your life where there are constant decisions that need to be made.
For example, you may be grappling with some of the following issues:
Where you should attend college
Whether or not you should move in with your partner
What career field or company you want to work in
Where you should move after college graduation
If you want to take the next step in your relationship by getting engaged and married
If you feel prepared to have a child
You may fear that you are making the wrong decisions and do not know what your future holds. It is also common to constantly compare yourself to others your age. Many people compare themselves to others which only causes negative emotions in the long-run. Often, comparisons result in resentment which is beneficial to no one, especially to yourself.
If you want to stop comparing yourself to others, you can try to:
Identify your triggers
Limit your time on social media
Focus on your strengths
Only compare yourself to the past version of yourself
Remember that everyone has insecurities and flaws
These are all common fears for young adults, or young professionals, to experience.
What adult age groups do you work with at Anchor Therapy?
At Anchor Therapy, we see people of all ages! When it comes to adult therapy, we see people who are 18 years old and older. We also see children as young as a few months old to senior citizens who are 65 years old and up. We have highly trained therapists on our team who are specialized in different age groups, including adults.
How can an adult therapist assist someone going through a “midlife crisis”?
Many adults go through a “midlife crisis.” This is a period of transition for people in or approaching middle age. Luckily, with the help of a therapist for adults, you can turn this taxing time in your life into an opportunity of self-growth.
The triggers of people’s mid-life crises differ. For some, it may simply be getting older. For others, it may be that their children have grown up and left the house, causing the infamous “empty nest syndrome.”
Some common sources of midlife crisis encompass the following:
Divorce or changes in your relationship
Changes in your body (e.g., weight gain, less energy, pain, etc.)
Fear of death
Societal messages about aging
Changing relationship with your child
Career changes
Financial challenges
Feeling like your life has not turned out the way you wish it had
An adult counselor can help you:
Deal with your “midlife crisis” effectively
Help you understand the root of your crisis
Assist you in gaining control over your emotions
Encourage you to take purposeful steps towards a meaningful life
What are the general benefits of adult therapy?
Mental health counseling has a wide range of benefits. For one, it encourages you to be open and honest about the issues you are facing in your life. Being honest about your situation and what is truly going on is one of the first steps of healing and a great step in the right direction.
You and your adult therapist will work together to pinpoint stressors in your life, and understand how they impact your life. Along with doing this, you and your licensed therapist will develop strategies to manage any symptoms you may be feeling.
Therapy can help:
Teach you coping strategies to properly manage your stress
Enhance your communication skills
Empower you to think positively about your life
Teach you how to make healthier choices
How does Anchor Therapy approach individual counseling?
Anchor Therapy is a 100% judgment-free zone. The relationship between you and your therapist for adults is key to the success you will achieve in counseling sessions.
When you take part in individual counseling, you are making an investment in yourself and honoring your needs.
At Anchor Therapy, you are given the space to explore the following in therapy:
Your thoughts
Your feelings
Your concerns
And more!
You may have certain relationship issues going on and, in that case, you may want to start couples counseling. At Anchor Therapy, we have premarital and marriage counselors to help you as a couple. While this is clearly helpful, you may additionally benefit from working with an individual adult counselor. Individual therapy focuses solely on you and gives you the opportunity to talk about how, following the previous example, your relationship impacts you, not your relationship unit as a whole.
By working with a therapist one-on-one, you can understand your problems on a deeper level. It also gives you more opportunity to explore different coping mechanisms to help you successfully handle any challenging situations life throws your way.
In counseling, your young adult therapist is going to motivate you to change in order to reach your goals, and assist you in improving the quality of your life by teaching you to practice self-awareness and self-exploration.
An example of therapy in action
If you feel anxious after you spend long periods of time on social media, this is something you and your mental health therapist will work to investigate. By doing so, you and your counselor will recognize that your anxiety peaks after spending too much time on social media (e.g., scrolling aimlessly through Instagram), and it causes you to spiral into negative thoughts.
You may feel pessimistic since you compare your life to other people’s filtered world which appears to be more exciting than yours on the surface and/or you may have a fear of missing out on important events and celebrations.
Once you and your therapist establish your triggers, such as spending too much time online, and your emotions, feeling inadequate and sad, you can move onto developing a plan of action and healthy coping mechanisms. You may also notice the thoughts in your head are not realistic and in turn you will be able to change how you feel and better your behaviors. This is taught during Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). You and your therapist for adults will also find healthy coping mechanisms that work for you and your lifestyle.
What are coping skills?
Coping mechanisms are strategies that people use when stress and/or difficult emotions enter their life. Coping mechanisms can help you adjust to stressful times while maintaining your emotional well-being.
Coping mechanisms are used to manage external situations that are creating problems in your life. Typically, coping mechanisms are used in a way that is conscious and purposeful.
Healthy coping skills are problem-focused or emotion-focused. As the name suggests, problem-focused coping skills highlight methods of dealing with an issue. On the other hand, emotion-focused coping skills help you handle your feelings that result from that specific problem.
HOW CAN ANCHOR THERAPY HELP COLLEGE STUDENTS AT STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND BEYOND?
Your college years can be filled with the best of years of your life but also with some of the most stressful. This is the time you are trying to find your identity and what your purpose is in life. You may be struggling with what major to switch to, what grad school to attend, or what career path you want to take. You may experience test anxiety or social anxiety around others that is impacting your daily functioning.
The stress of college can create anxiety in a lot of students. Your early 20’s are also a time that anxiety will start to present itself if it is part of your genetic makeup.
Some other issues that you may experience as a college student are:
An increase in depression
Isolation
Family issues
Relationship issues
The stress of getting good grades or the best internship
HOW CAN ANCHOR THERAPY HELP PARENTS FEEL LIKE THEIR BEST SELVES AGAIN?
As parents, you truly want the best for your children. You want them to be happy and safe. There are times that you may find yourself feeling at the end of your rope because your child is not doing well or is not listening to you.
Raising kids is definitely not an easy job. You may also have a career job on top of your role as a parent. We are here to provide the support you need to make sure you are taking care of yourself so that you can be there for your kids and your family.
Our goal is to help you through family stress, anxiety, depression, and prenatal or postpartum depression/anxiety. We will be there for you so that you can be there for your family.
THE TYPES OF ADULT COUNSELING OFFERED AT ANCHOR THERAPY:
Anger management
Grief and Loss
Infertility
Parenting
Relationships
School/work difficulties
Self-esteem
Sleep problems
HOW ANCHOR THERAPY CAN HELP YOU:
You may notice that the problems you are having are starting to negatively impact your daily life. You are looking for support in your process of feeling better. As licensed adult therapists, we are here to give you tools and skills so that you can make it through your stressors or life transitions. Therapy will open up your communication so that you can express yourself and better your relationships. We can help you to express their thoughts, feelings, and emotions more openly.
WHY ANCHOR THERAPY?
At Anchor Therapy, we put self-care before everything. We make sure that all of our clinicians have enough time for self-care so that when they come into work to help others they are 100% present and happy to help. In therapy, you will have the unique opportunity to talk to someone that is nonjudgmental and fully listening and ready to help you. Your therapist will provide a safe place for you to figure out what your next steps in life are and how to feel better. We are here to motivate you and provide accountability as you continue your journey through adulthood.
THERAPY APPROACHES WE USE WITH ADULTS:
We will work with you to help you cope with life transitions and stressors that come your way. Through CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy), we can help you to recognize what is causing you to feel anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed. We explore the thoughts that are causing you discomfort in your mind and then reframe and challenge those thoughts so that your symptoms of anxiety and/or depression decrease.
We are here to fit our therapeutic approach to exactly what you need, taking a multidisciplinary approach to our work.
Some other therapy techniques we commonly use other than CBT are as follows:
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Narrative Therapy
Motivational Interviewing
Coaching
Supportive Counseling
Our therapists are trained to customize their counseling approach to fit your exact needs and what will help you the most.
We are here to support you in whatever your needs are. If you’re interested in adult counseling, reach out to us directly by filling out the form below. We have psychotherapists who specialize in helping adults. We have an office in downtown Hoboken, NJ and provide telehealth (online counseling) as well to residents of New Jersey, New York, and Florida.
CONTACT US
WORKING WITH US IS EASY
Fill out the contact form below.
Our intake coordinator will get back to you with more information on how we can help and to schedule an appointment. We will set you up with an experienced licensed therapist for adults who specializes in what you're seeking help with and who understands your needs.
You’ll rest easy tonight knowing you made the first step to improve your life.
