Adolescence
...is an incredible time...incredibly dynamic, incredibly formative, and (for many) incredibly challenging. Having a place to explore, discuss, and get support around these challenges is also an incredible resource.
You are exploring your identity and making decisions every day about who you want to be. These years are the time when you plant the seeds of your personality, interest, motivation, and psychological patterns. The way that these seeds are cultivated has real implications on your life, future, and sense of self.
Many teens have an age-appropriate need to have spaces that are theirs. This helps them to define and discover themselves. Additionally, mentorship is a valuable resource given all the risks taken and decisions made during this life stage. There is a delicate balance between giving space and providing guidance to a young person.
I want to provide a space that nurtures and sharpens your internal guidance, supporting you in building your own resources.
I want to support you towards your own empowerment.
Becoming an adult
Being in your 20's poses all kinds of opportunities, decisions, and experiences to process. Questions arise around:
navigating identity within oneself and in the world...
processing experiences and beliefs around substances...
learning about and relating to sexual identity and desires in new ways...
taking on and developing responsibilities and capacities in the world...
figuring out how to balance and communicate needs in relationships...
making decisions around career trajectory and developing a sense of professional identity (and managing the imposter syndrome along the way)...
just to name a few.
And on top of that, there are all the ways our own specific psychologies relate to each of these issues. These developmental tasks and transitions are important.
They deserve sensitivity and attention. Plus, these are the times that many psychological patterns begin to crystallize or become more problematic. It can feel like these things are already set in stone, but they are not. Everyone has the capacity, with some work, to experience shifts and expand options of how to be with oneself and others.