Online Therapy for Making Decisions

How do you travel through life?

Maybe you’re a planner, laying out your track a decade or so in advance, and doing your best to stick to the steps you know will bring you to the life you want.

Or maybe you'd rather see where the winds take you, making adjustments along the way and trusting you’ll find unexpected, wonderful views.

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Or maybe you’re some of both, and that brings its own challenges of inner conflicts!

If you don’t know your strategy, or if you are working off of a strategy you learned from someone else but that doesn’t suit you, you might be in for a harder journey.

Therapy is a space where you can get clarity on what is important to you so that you can make confident choices for all of these important life decisions, and more:

  • choosing a college major

  • picking a career

  • applying to grad school

  • figuring out how to interact with people in your field

  • considering job offers

  • making choices about personal relationships

To help you through these, some of the things that we might explore include your identities, personality, values, interests, skills, relationship styles, family history, role models, and other factors in your life.

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While many resources can address these things on the surface, there are techniques I bring into counseling that can help you get at the deeper levels of your truths, so that you feel greater trust in the decisions you make.

Another thing that may not be addressed well in traditional career resources is how mental health impacts the decision-making process and follow-through. Sometimes the decision you face is far from the path you expected, like whether to get academic accommodations or withdraw from a class or semester for mental health reasons. Even with more anticipated decisions, the influences of mental health on motivation and confidence can be important to consider.

Planning and pursuing your best life is a deeply personal process, and I want you to have room for all the nuance that it calls for.

To learn more about what we can do to help with your important decisions, visit my specialties pages.