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Life transitions are always stressful, but sometimes we can feel so overwhelmed by the changes ahead that we find it difficult to know what to do or where to turn.
Changes in our lives can reveal deep insecurities and unresolved issues that need to be addressed in order for us to thrive in all of the aspects of our lives.
When extreme changes take place throughout your lifetime, it can cause stress that affects your daily life.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or lost as you try to navigate these shifts in your life, you’ve come to the right place.
We are trained to help you uncover what is beneath the surface so that you can resolve the inner conflicts that are making these transitions more challenging than they need to be.
We will help you use the challenges in your life to heal and grow into the person you want to be.
We believe that in every challenge there is a lesson.
As we help guide you through these lessons, you will begin to develop resiliency, clarity, and inner strength.
Life transitions can be expected and planned, or can happen out of the blue.
Planned or not, transitions in life can bring up lots of deep fears and inner conflicts.
Over the course of your life, there are many types of changes and life transition that can occur like:
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There are a couple of categories that life transitions can fit into: unanticipated life transitions, anticipated life transitions, nonevent transitions, and sleeper transitions.
Unanticipated life transitions are events that you do not expect.
This can include medical events, such as strokes or heart attacks, natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, or tsunamis, or being deported from a country.
These types of events can cause major amounts of stress and anxiety, having to navigate a new way of life.
Anticipated life transitions are events that you might expect, such as entering college, getting a new job, graduating, or getting married.
A lot of preparation is usually put into these transitions, and support systems are generally much larger for these positive transitions.
Nonevent transitions are events that we thought would happen, but didn’t happen.
This can be anything that we were preparing for, but did not meet our expectations, such as opening an art studio only to realize that it was not as successful as you thought it would be.
Finally, sleeper transitions are gradual transitions that we might not even realize are happening.
This can include the gradual transition downhill as you start getting addicted to using substances, gradual weight gain, or a gradual decline in the quality of your relationship.
Because the event just gets worse little by little, you might not notice how bad it has become until you take a look at where you started.
Therapy can successfully improve your life by helping you minimize your anxiety, identifying and changing underlying thought and behavioral patterns that contribute to your struggles, and providing you with strategies to decrease discomfort while restoring an overall sense of peace.
To experience true and lasting joy in our life, we must face and conquer our pain and heal by confronting our fears.
See the About Therapy page for a deeper look into this process.
Our evidence-based, scientifically proven interventions are demonstrated by research to be effective in addressing mental health issues surrounding life transitions, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance abuse.
Learn more about our empirically based therapy modalities by visiting our Methods page.
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I am blown away! I don’t write testimonials, unless I have been extremely moved by something. I was blessed to work with Brooke on a single session, and before this I was in therapy on and off with multiple therapists for the last 20 years of my life. Brooke was able to do more in one session than many years of work with my previous therapist. She has the true gift of great insight and compassion while also getting straight to the heart of your blind spots and unconscious issues in a way that has truly changed my life.
Skyler J.
There are people who are good at their work there are people like Brooke: who are born to do it. I cannot recommend Brooke more highly. I can only imagine where I would be today if I had started working with her years ago. From the beginning of our session, she knew exactly what tools and questions that would work for my particular psychology and my personal experience. No other therapist has been able to do that or anything close.
What I also really appreciate from our session is Brooke's ability to go directly to the source of the issue while also keeping a very gentle and kind energy with me. I felt very seen, understood, and supported. Everything and more that I could have ever asked for from a therapist. I have a severe trauma history and complex issues she was able to immediately identify and help. If she could help me, I know she can help you too.
Taylor E.
You did more in 45 minutes than my last therapist did in a year.
Jamie
With your help, I've finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed, in a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of decidedly less-terrifying laundry I've avoided for too long that just needs to be aired out and put away. Which is definitely a lot easier than monster slaying. Thank you for shedding light in the dark places I was too afraid to face alone.
Morgan B.
I am extremely fortunate to work with Sydney, who is helping me create real internal change. The talent to listen well is Hall of Fame stuff, and she has that. She then follows with questions, strategies that are organic to the moment. I have come to believe that deep, radical, if occasionally deeply painful change ... and, then, healing can happen. I'm just at the lip of that last part - but would not have gotten there, AT ALL, without Sydney
Ric K.
The best therapist ever! Life-changing 🙂
Catherine H.
Right now, the work is changing my life, sometimes in inches, sometimes in miles.
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