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Anxiety
Worry that hums beneath the surface, racing thoughts at night, a body that will not settle. In therapy, we work to uncover the origins and uses of anxiety, and to find a steadier ground.
Therapy
Areas of focus
People seek therapy for many reasons: sometimes in response to a specific crisis or transition, and sometimes because longstanding patterns no longer feel sustainable. Below are some of the concerns I work with most often.
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Depression
Low mood, flatness, or a heaviness that makes ordinary days feel effortful. We work to understand the origins and uses of depressive thoughts and explore what brings you energy and meaning.
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ADHD
Living with ADHD often means carrying years of self-criticism alongside the practical challenges. Therapy can address both: workable structures and a kinder understanding of your own mind.
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Perfectionism
When nothing ever feels finished or good enough, achievement stops feeling like success. We look at where those standards came from and what it would mean for them to loosen their grip.
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Academic stress
Deadlines, grades, and expectations can crowd out everything else. Therapy offers a place to step back, sort out your priorities, and define a life according to your values.
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College student mental health
The college years ask a great deal: new independence, new relationships, and questions about who you are becoming. Therapy can help define your values and goals that give this formative time meaning.
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Graduate student mental health
Graduate training brings its own strains: isolation, advisor relationships, self-doubt, and long horizons. Therapy can help you stay connected to the reasons you began, and to your hopes for your future.
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Career exploration
Deciding what your work should be is rarely just a practical question. We explore what matters to you and what gets in the way of pursuing it.
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Career pressure and burnout
High-pressure work can slowly wear down the person doing it. Therapy can help you understand the patterns that drive overwork and recover a more sustainable pace.
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Relationship difficulties
Whether with partners, family, friends, or colleagues, recurring conflict and distance usually have patterns worth understanding.
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Trauma and recovery
Past experiences can continue to shape the present in ways that feel painful and confusing. We move at your pace, with care, toward safety and recovery.
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Identity and self-esteem
Questions of who you are and what you are worth can run underneath many other struggles. Therapy offers a steady, nonjudgmental place to work them through.
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Life transitions
Beginnings and endings, chosen and unchosen: moves, graduations, new roles, losses. Transitions unsettle us, and they can also open the way to meaningful change.
Therapy is individualized
Therapy is individualized. The areas described on this site are starting points for a conversation, not diagnoses, and nothing here is a substitute for personalized clinical care.
Appointments
Wondering whether therapy could help?
A short inquiry is all it takes to ask about availability or a complimentary 15-minute consultation.
Appointments, consultations, and scheduling are coordinated through Solid Ground Psychotherapy, PLLC.