Young adult therapy & counseling in Denver
Find direction and guidance during this next stage of your life.
It's really complicated to be a young adult today
Being a young adult in today’s world is drastically different from how things were even 10 years ago. In general, transitioning into your 20s and 30s and becoming a young professional can bring a lot of life changes and growth, including potentially moving, starting or finishing school, moving out on your own in a new place, starting a new or different job, or discovering who you are away from school and more structured activities.
Many experts believe that the vast majority of substantial and memorable events in your life happen in your 20s, and the person you are in your 20s and 30s could be drastically different from the person you were as a teen. This can create a lot of feelings of anxiety, stress, and even identity issues as you’re establishing yourself during this period of your life.
While young adults can have issues with their relationships, social lives, school, finances, work, substance abuse, and more, these issues happen while the world might feel like it expects you to figure things out really fast. For many people, this can feel pretty shocking and even paralyzing when it happens all at once. During this transitional stage of life, the life you once knew starts to include a lot more independence and what can feel like big life decisions. The way you feel about yourself and the goals you have can also change, along with your friendships, professional direction, and adulthood might feel a little different than you might’ve expected.
Sometimes, people can feel excited about the future, but other times things can feel more a little overwhelming. Everyone experiences this change into young adulthood differently, and it can bring a lot of feelings of stress, accomplishment, joy, confusion, excitement, and nervousness. Your social life might be changing too. Add it all up, and it can feel like a lot.
By working with a young adult therapist in Denver, you can find more direction, purpose, and go about this transition to your adult life in more healthy, productive ways. Having someone you trust to share what you’re going through and struggling with can have a transformative and positive effect on these important years of your life.
Because your generation has transformed how people think about therapy, our therapists in Denver have supported thousands of people in their 20s and 30s find more direction and guidance around what they want their lives to look like going forward.
Benefits of therapy for young adults
If you’re in your 20s and 30s, therapy can help you navigate many of the challenges of this period of your life, including:
- Finding your place: You might be figuring out who you are and where you want to go in life. A therapist can help you explore your identity and set realistic goals.
- Get help with stress and anxiety: Whether it’s work, school, friendships, or money, stress can negatively affect your mental health in so many ways, including self-harm. With therapy, you can learn effective coping skills that help you manage anxiety and deal with stress better.
- Have better relationships: Communication is so important in this period of you life, and a therapist can help you improve how you communicate, listen, build relationships and maintain them in this period of your life.
- Addressing mental health issues: Study after study is showing the importance of mental health. Whether you’re starting therapy for the first time or continuing something that you’ve tried before, like if you’ve had therapy for ADHD, your mental health is a huge part of who you’ll ultimately become in this next stage of your life.
Unique challenges of being a young adult
With social media, remote work, a volatile job and housing market, rising costs of education, the availability of many drugs, and more, being a young adult right now is anything but typical. Across millennials and Gen Z, even with so much technology, messaging, and social media, it can be hard to create genuine friendships and even have people to talk to on a regular basis.
Surface-level connections and online appearances can make life feel lonely in ways that the world has never seen before, and millions of people in their 20s feel depressed, anxious, or feel like they don’t have true friendships. More people than ever are engaging in self-harm or self-injury, and therapy can help you overcome depression, loneliness, and trauma in this important period of your life.
This is not an easy time to be finishing high school, graduating from college, starting a new job, or moving out on your own as a young professional. If you’re feeling pressure, stress, or anxiety about it, you’re not alone—and we’re here to help.
Common issues for young adults:
- Anxiety about school, work, or relationships
- Feeling confused about where your life is going
- Destructive patterns at work or with relationships
- Financial challenges when living on your own
- Developing or managing obsessive-compulsive disorders
- Working through traumatic experiences, including incidents at school or with family
- Having feelings that you’re stuck or that you’re not doing what you, your friends, or family might’ve expected
- Challenges managing relationships or wanting to have deeper connections with people
- Stress around career choices, work life balances
- Depression and feeling pressure to make decisions or progress
- Substance abuse issues with drugs or alcohol
- Trouble with decisions about your life, relationships, or jobs
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Meet our therapists
My Denver Therapy is one of the largest woman-owned therapy private practices in Colorado with many of the best, most requested mental health therapists in the Denver Metro area.
As a therapist-owned practice with decades of combined experience, we care about seeing our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We’re one of the only therapy practices in Colorado with licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners who actively see new clients. Whether you’re an adult, teen, young adult, couple, or family, our inclusive therapist team is built to specialize in you.
Our practice started with one therapist in a shared office suite, but we’ve grown to help thousands of people in Colorado by providing in-person therapy at our conveniently located Denver Metro area counseling offices in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, plus online therapy for clients throughout Colorado. Because of the way our team works, our therapists also provide consultation for other therapists and private practices in the Denver Metro area.
Our inclusive therapists provide some of the most innovative, effective, and in-demand forms of therapy available today, including EMDR, Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, CBT, and IFS. We also have more therapists trained in Ketamine-assisted therapy, EMDR, and more teen therapists and young adult counselors than nearly every other private practice in Denver.
We know that clients want to find the best therapists in Denver, so our team includes therapists with different backgrounds, specialities, and experiences to help you find the right fit. We’ll match you with one of our therapists who is the best for your goals, location, budget, and schedule to help you get started quickly.
We’re out of network for insurance, Tricare, and are unable to take Medicaid, but most of our therapists’ rates are lower than the local and national averages for therapy.
All of our therapists take a client-focused approach to counseling and approach each session with a commitment to your progress and growth.
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- With therapists and counselors in Denver, Greenwood Village, and Lone Tree, My Denver Therapy provides in-person mental health counseling for adults, teens, couples, and families in Colorado.
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