Telehealth therapy · Anywhere in Florida
Life Transitions and Stress
For the seasons when everything changes at once
- Florida LCSW, license SW27230
- Secure video sessions
- In network with Aetna, Cigna, Medicare, and more
Big changes
Nothing is technically “wrong,” and life is still a lot
Not everything that brings someone to therapy is a disorder.
Maybe the job changed.
A relationship ended.
You moved.
You became a caregiver.
You changed careers.
Your health changed.
You graduated and found out adulthood doesn’t come with an instruction manual, or even a decent FAQ.
You retired, and the routine that ran thirty years of your life vanished. Now it’s a Tuesday morning and nobody expects you anywhere.
A change can be a completely normal part of life and still flatten you for a while.
Common reasons
What brings people in
- Changing careers
- Breakups, marriage, divorce
- Caregiving
- Disability
- Health changes
- Needing more help than before
- College and your twenties
- Moving
- Retirement
- Family friction
- Grief
- Shifts in identity
- Burnout
- Money stress
- Big decisions
- Living in limbo
When a health change or disability is part of the picture, the disability and chronic illness page goes further. If grief or a low mood has moved in and stayed, try depression.
Why it’s hard
Adjusting takes work
One change can knock over a lot of dominoes. Your routine, relationships, money, confidence, independence, sense of self, and the picture you had of how life would go can all wobble at once.
In therapy, we sort out which parts you can change and which parts you’ll probably have to adjust to.
That may mean problem solving.
It may mean grief.
It may mean boundaries.
That can mean making peace with something you never asked for, without faking a smile about it.
You can accept it and still hate it.
Mostly it means you quit fighting with what already happened, so you have energy left to decide what’s next.
The practical part
What sessions look like
I lean practical. We figure out what matters most to you right now, pick a next step small enough to actually happen this week, and build skills for stress so it stops running the show. For the parts outside your control, we make a plan for those too.
- 1
Solution-focused work, which looks for what’s already going right so you can do more of it
- 2
CBT for the middle-of-the-night thoughts that pile on when things are shaky
- 3
Mindfulness and grounding for the stress that sits in your shoulders and stomach
- 4
Motivational interviewing for when part of you wants the change and part of you really doesn’t
Ready when you are
Grab a time on my scheduling page. Insurance or private pay, the steps are the same, and you can add your insurance when you book. Want to talk first? Call 754.400.0824 or send me a message. Accepted plans are listed on the Insurance page.
What it costs: your plan’s copay or coinsurance if I am in network, 20% after the deductible with Original Medicare, or the private pay rate. See costs
For the curious
Want to nerd out on the research?
Reading up is optional. If you’re curious what researchers know about stress and how it wears on people, these are good places to start.
- I’m So Stressed Out! Fact Sheet (opens in a new tab)National Institute of Mental Health
- Stress (opens in a new tab)American Psychological Association
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