Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Young Adults
Young Adults
How do I know if what I’m feeling is anxiety, burnout, or just stress from school/work?
How do I know if what I’m feeling is anxiety, burnout, or just stress from school/work?
Stress usually comes and goes with specific situations, while anxiety tends to feel more constant and harder to shut off. Burnout often shows up as emotional exhaustion, lack of motivation, and feeling detached. A counselor can help you sort out the patterns and what your body and mind are telling you.
Stress usually comes and goes with specific situations, while anxiety tends to feel more constant and harder to shut off. Burnout often shows up as emotional exhaustion, lack of motivation, and feeling detached. A counselor can help you sort out the patterns and what your body and mind are telling you.
What can therapy help me with if I’m dealing with academic pressure or career uncertainty?
What can therapy help me with if I’m dealing with academic pressure or career uncertainty?
Therapy can help you manage pressure, build confidence, and get clearer on what you actually want, not just what you feel you “should” do. It’s also a space to talk through decisions and reduce that constant overthinking.
Therapy can help you manage pressure, build confidence, and get clearer on what you actually want, not just what you feel you “should” do. It’s also a space to talk through decisions and reduce that constant overthinking.
Athletes
Athletes
How can therapy help with performance anxiety or fear of failure?
How can therapy help with performance anxiety or fear of failure?
Therapy can teach you mental strategies to stay focused, manage nerves, and separate your self-worth from your performance. It helps you build confidence and perform more consistently under pressure.
Therapy can teach you mental strategies to stay focused, manage nerves, and separate your self-worth from your performance. It helps you build confidence and perform more consistently under pressure.
Can counseling help me bounce back after an injury?
Can counseling help me bounce back after an injury?
Yes, injuries are just as mental as they are physical. Counseling can help you process frustration, stay motivated during recovery, and rebuild trust in your body when returning to play.
Yes, injuries are just as mental as they are physical. Counseling can help you process frustration, stay motivated during recovery, and rebuild trust in your body when returning to play.
First Responders
First Responders
How can therapy help with chronic stress, trauma, or difficult calls?
How can therapy help with chronic stress, trauma, or difficult calls?
Therapy gives you a place to process what you’ve experienced instead of carrying it alone. It can help reduce burnout, improve coping skills, and prevent long-term emotional impact from repeated exposure to trauma.
Therapy gives you a place to process what you’ve experienced instead of carrying it alone. It can help reduce burnout, improve coping skills, and prevent long-term emotional impact from repeated exposure to trauma.
Is therapy confidential even if I work for a public agency?
Is therapy confidential even if I work for a public agency?
Yes, therapy is confidential, with a few legal exceptions (like risk of harm to yourself or others). Your job does not change your right to privacy in counseling.
Yes, therapy is confidential, with a few legal exceptions (like risk of harm to yourself or others). Your job does not change your right to privacy in counseling.
New Parents
New Parents
How can therapy help with postpartum anxiety or depression?
How can therapy help with postpartum anxiety or depression?
Therapy can help you understand what you’re feeling, manage overwhelming thoughts, and build coping strategies during a huge life transition. It also gives you support without judgment.
Therapy can help you understand what you’re feeling, manage overwhelming thoughts, and build coping strategies during a huge life transition. It also gives you support without judgment.
I love my baby, but I feel overwhelmed, is that normal?
I love my baby, but I feel overwhelmed, is that normal?
Yes, that’s very normal. You can love your baby deeply and still feel exhausted, anxious, or unsure. Those feelings can coexist, and you don’t have to handle them alone.
Yes, that’s very normal. You can love your baby deeply and still feel exhausted, anxious, or unsure. Those feelings can coexist, and you don’t have to handle them alone.
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