Anxiety
Overthinking every text you send? Dreading presentations?
Racing thoughts keeping you up at 3am? Constant worry about grades, social situations, or the future? We help you break free from the anxiety spiral.
Anxiety therapy for college students and young adults in Chicagoland — in person or virtual.
What it can look like
- Racing thoughts at 3am
- Replaying conversations
- Dreading presentations
- Chest tight before class
- Avoiding what matters
- Never fully switching off
How we work with it
- Catching the thought that fires first, and testing it instead of believing it
- Approaching what you have been avoiding, in steps small enough to stay with
- Practical tools for the physical side — breathing, sleep, the 3am spiral
Depression
Lost interest in things you used to love?
When getting out of bed feels impossible and nothing brings joy anymore. We help you find your way back to feeling like yourself.
Therapy for low mood, loss of motivation and depression during college and early adulthood.
What it can look like
- Getting up feels impossible
- Nothing lands like it used to
- Sleeping too much, or not at all
- Falling behind and not caring
- Withdrawing from friends
- Flat rather than sad
How we work with it
- Rebuilding the week in small pieces, before motivation shows up
- Catching the harshest thoughts about yourself and checking them against evidence
- Working out what changed, and what that change is asking for
ADHD
Can't focus no matter how hard you try?
Struggling to focus, stay organized, or follow through? ADHD in college is real and manageable with the right support.
ADHD support for students — focus, organisation, procrastination and the shame that gets attached to it.
What it can look like
- Five things started, none finished
- Deadlines only real at the last hour
- Losing the thread mid-lecture
- Time going missing
- Called lazy while trying hard
- Focus arriving too late
How we work with it
- Systems built for how your attention actually works, not how it is supposed to
- Breaking work into pieces small enough to start without a deadline behind you
- Separating ADHD from the years of being told you were not trying
OCD
Stuck in loops of checking, counting, or avoiding?
Intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors don't have to control your life. We use evidence-based treatment for OCD, including CBT.
Evidence-based OCD treatment for intrusive thoughts, checking, and compulsive routines.
What it can look like
- Intrusive thoughts that feel dangerous
- Checking, counting, rereading
- Reassurance that never lasts
- Rituals that keep growing
- Avoiding the triggers
- Knowing it is irrational anyway
How we work with it
- Understanding what the compulsion is doing for you — and what happens when you do not do it
- Exposure work at a pace you set, not one imposed on you
- Separating the thought itself from the meaning that got attached to it
Relationship Issues
Struggling with boundaries or communication?
Navigating friendships, romantic relationships, and family dynamics during college can be overwhelming.
Therapy for friendships, romantic relationships, roommates and family — boundaries, conflict and communication.
What it can look like
- Same argument, different person
- Saying yes when you mean no
- Roommate conflict with no exit
- Reading silence as rejection
- Losing yourself in relationships
- Not knowing where the line is
How we work with it
- Naming the pattern that keeps repeating across different people
- Practising boundaries out loud here, before you need them out there
- Working out what you actually need, and how to ask for it directly
Academic Stress
Feel like you're never doing enough?
The pressure to perform, imposter syndrome, and burnout are real. Learn to thrive, not just survive.
Support for academic pressure, imposter syndrome, perfectionism and burnout at Chicagoland universities.
What it can look like
- Never enough, whatever you do
- Imposter syndrome in every room
- Procrastinate, then panic
- Grades feeling like identity
- Burnt out by midterms
- Comparing constantly
How we work with it
- Pulling your worth back apart from your GPA
- A study and rest structure that survives a bad week, instead of all-or-nothing
- Tools for the pressure spikes — exams, deadlines, applications
Identity & Self-Esteem
Not sure who you really are?
College is a time of figuring out who you are. We help you build confidence and self-acceptance.
Therapy for self-esteem, confidence and identity — including culture, family expectation and figuring out who you are.
What it can look like
- Unsure who you are without achievements
- Editing yourself for the room
- A harsh inner voice
- Caught between cultures or expectations
- Feeling behind everyone else
- Confidence that depends on the day
How we work with it
- Sorting what is actually yours from what was handed to you
- Turning the inner critic down to something you can work with
- Building confidence that holds between the good weeks
Life Transitions
Feeling lost during a big life change?
Whether it's starting college, graduating, or facing unexpected changes, transitions are hard.
Support through starting college, graduating, moving, loss and everything else that resets your life at once.
What it can look like
- Started college and did not land
- Graduating with no plan
- A move, a breakup, a loss
- Homesickness that will not lift
- First job, first city, no map
- Everyone else seems settled
How we work with it
- Making sense of what ended before building what comes next
- Steadying the daily routine while everything around it moves
- Room for grief and change without a timeline attached
