Therapy for Young Adults
in Houston
New Experiences Can Be Fun and Exciting!
Being an adult comes with many new experiences and feelings. Learning more about yourself and figuring out your place in the world can be super fun and exciting. You get to make your own decisions, develop new friendships and relationships, and explore the life you've imagined on your own terms.
New Experiences Can Also Be Overwhelming and Stressful
Of course, all these changes can also be overwhelming, stressful, and really hard. You might feel anxious, worried, sad, lonely, or unsure of yourself and your connection with others. You might also be adjusting to a changing relationship with your family and wondering how to balance your increasing need to be your own person with getting support from your loved ones. It's tough figuring out how to deal with life's overwhelming responsibilities while still caring for yourself and having fun.
Get Support and Feel Better with Therapy in Houston
Through counseling sessions together, I'll help you get the tools you need to feel better, calmer, happier, and more connected to yourself and others. We'll increase your confidence in who you are and help you understand the life you want for yourself. I'll help you find ways to manage life's challenges while having fun and living a life you enjoy.
Ways I Can Help
Here are some of the ways I can support you:
Stress, overwhelm, pressure
Worry, anxiety, nervousness, panic
Sadness, depression, isolation, loneliness
Grief and loss
Trauma from abuse, discrimination, social stigma, traumatic events, or other life experiences
Life transitions such as moving, beginning or ending a relationship, starting or ending college, starting your career, changing jobs, gender transition, or other life changes
Struggles with school, academics, work, or career
How to self-advocate, manage your schedule, prioritize tasks, and balance productivity with self-care
Perfectionism, achievement, and concerns about college, grad school, or career path
Identity development and getting a better understanding of yourself, your values, and what you want in your life
Supporting LGBTQIA+, transgender, and gender-expansive identities, navigating coming out/letting people in, and moving from gender dysphoria to gender euphoria
Supporting partners, siblings, family members, and friends of people who are LGBTQIA+, transgender, or gender-expansive
Self-esteem, shame, body image, perfectionism
Relationship challenges, differences, and changes with family, friends, partners, roommates, and others
Navigating dating and romantic relationships
Support with family relationships and family differences
Building social skills for healthy relationships with family, friends, partners, coworkers, classmates, and others
Developing life management and executive functioning skills, such as organizing, planning, self-control, and time management.
Neurodivergent support for ADHD, autism, and OCD
Get Started with Therapy in Houston
We’ll work together to help you feel better and get the tools you need to live a life you love and enjoy. Click here to schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation to get started with counseling in Houston, TX. We'll spend 15 minutes on the phone, and I'll let you know how I can help, or I'll do my best to connect you with someone who can. Let's work together to help you start feeling better today.
Your Questions About Therapy for Young Adults, Answered
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If you read this page and thought "okay but how does she know me like this?!" that's probably a pretty good sign.
The work I do is specifically designed for people who feel like they are always running behind, always holding it together by a thread, and quietly wondering why everything feels so much harder than it looks.
If that sounds like you, let's have a conversation. We can figure out together whether we're a good fit, no pressure. And if I'm not the one who can best support you, I'm happy to help you find someone who can, because you deserve that.
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No part of who you are needs to wait outside.
Who you are, where you come from, the communities you were born into and the ones you chose along the way: your cultural background, your ethnicity, your immigration story, your religion or your complicated relationship with religion, your sexuality, your gender identity, whether you're queer, trans, nonbinary, or anywhere on that spectrum, your neurodivergence, your disability, the languages you move between, your body and how you live in it.
None of that is separate from you, and therefore none of it is separate from our work together. Your many identities are woven into all parts of your life, and they will be woven into our sessions the same way.
I won't assume or pretend to know your specific experience before you share it. What I will bring is genuine curiosity, a real familiarity with a wide range of communities, cultures, and contexts, and enough grounding in your world that you won't have to spend your energy explaining why a part of who you are matters, or why navigating the world with your particular set of identities can sometimes ask more of you than it should.
You can show up as your full self, and we can get to work.
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You don't need an evaluation to start. A lot of people come in with a strong sense that something is going on, with or without formal paperwork, and that self-knowledge is genuinely valuable.
Some people find that pursuing a formal diagnosis is useful. Others land on their own understanding of how their brain works and that's enough.
Either way, the shortcut is real. A shortcut to understanding which parts of how your brain works have been making things harder, and to knowing what supports are most likely to help. It can save years of throwing strategies at a wall and blaming yourself when they don't stick.
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Absolutely not, and you are in very good company. A lot of people arrive at this understanding later in life, sometimes after years of working incredibly hard to keep up and quietly wondering why everything felt so much harder than it looked.
However you got here, whether ADHD is a new idea or something you've been sitting with for a while, what matters is that you’re here now. Whether you’re in your 50s, 60s, 70s, or later, people who come to this work at this stage of life often bring a tremendous amount of self-knowledge with them. That’s a real asset. Your age is not a ceiling on what is possible for you. It is never too late to understand yourself better and start feeling like life does not have to be this hard.
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Really fair question, and a common experience. A lot of people have had therapy that was genuinely supportive without being specifically informed about what works best for neurodivergent people. Generic strategies can help without going far enough, and when they don't stick, it's easy to blame yourself for the gap.
One way to think about it: neurotypical and neurodivergent brains are like different operating systems. Not better or worse, just different. A lot of traditional therapy strategies were built for one system and don't fully translate for neurodivergent folks. That's not a you-problem. That's a fit problem.
I specialize in working with neurodivergent folks and stay current with the research so I understand what's most helpful for my clients. I'll always want to know what has and hasn't worked for you before, because that history is useful data, not a reason to feel discouraged. That history helps us figure out what will actually work for you this time.
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That can happen, and it's worth knowing going in. Sometimes when you start paying real attention to patterns you've been managing around for years, or making room for feelings you've been keeping at arm's length, things can feel more present and uncomfortable before they feel lighter. That's not a sign something's wrong. It's often a sign the work is reaching something real.
I'll check in with you about how things are feeling as we go. If something feels like too much or like we've moved too fast, we'll slow down and you'll always be the one to set the pace.
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If you're ready to find out what it feels like to stop working against yourself, the first step is simple. Head to the contact page where you’ll fill out a short form. It asks for your basic contact info and one question about what is bringing you to reach out right now.
Once you submit the form, the confirmation page gives you a link to self-schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation at a time that works for you. If you don't see a time that fits or you'd rather coordinate by email, just reach out by email and we'll find something that works.
The self-scheduling system will prompt you to create a quick account. This is through a HIPAA-compliant platform and just needs your name and contact info. No payment information, no paperwork, nothing like that yet. You're just picking a time.
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All sessions are held online via a HIPAA-compliant video platform. No commute, no waiting room, just you and a reliable internet connection. A lot of clients find they open up more from their own couch than they ever did in a waiting room, and research backs that up. Online therapy produces the same results as in-person.