Adulting isn’t easy.
Are you…
building a career and life and need support getting through all the life transitions?
a college or graduate student looking for a young adult therapist who just gets it?
a teen wanting a young adult therapist to help you get through high school or your GED?
If you are, here is how we do it:
As we provide life transitions therapy for young adults it all begins with listening. It is important to learn about the stories that impact your day-to-day life. Taking this approach helps trust begin between you and your therapist'; and it has room to grow.
We Focus On:
Gaining Your Trust and Getting to Know You
We believe real support for teens and young adults in transition starts with who you are right now—not the ideal version you think or have been told everyone wants to see. You don’t have to be “there” yet. We ask: What’s already worth appreciating in who you are today? And: What would it be like if you didn’t have to perform for your therapist at all?
Creating the Space to Tell Your Whole Story
As young adult therapists, we think that therapy begins by peeling back the onion of your story. What do we mean? We mean that we take the moment to tell the story of how you got here— who helped you, what hurdles do you jump and continue to jump?
We understand the stories that are also happening, but are not being told show also come to the surface.
Figuring Out the Gaps: What’s IN your Control vs. OUT of your control
We as young adult therapists have to remind you and remind ourselves that there are parts of your experience that are in your control, and some that are out of your control.
Why do we do this? So we can tackle the guilt-filled thought that says, “It’s all your fault.”
Leaning Into Your Strengths
As therapists for college students, teens, and young adults in transition, we believe every person comes in with strengths, so we want to get to know them and remind you of them and the people who tell you your strengths.
Understanding the Relationships that impact You, even if you dont think they do.
Most of us don’t move through this world alone, and we think every young adult and teen should have someone in their corner—rooting for them and believing in them.
If you don’t know who they are, we can find them or help with resources to help you discover some.
Making the Big Decisions
A huge part of adulting is making big decisions like: What am I going to do with my life? Who do I want to become? What needs to change in every part of my life?— from friendships, to relationships, and more!
Asking and answering these big questions can be very difficult, and we think therapy can help you work through the fogginess of it all!
Here are Our Young Adult Therapists in Denver
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Eden Mengistu, Social Work Student
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Irina González, Social Work Student
You’re trying to figure out this thing called life,
It is exciting, scary, thrilling, and nerve wrecking, all at the same time.
And that’s okay.
How the Books Describe What We do as Young Adult Therapists
Culturally and Identity identity-informed/Social Justice Informed Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Attachment Theory
Understanding Distress Tolerance: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Person-Centered and Strengths Based Therapy