Life Transitions Therapy

Are You Looking For Deeper Meaning In Your Life?

• Have you realized that the goals you’ve set for yourself are no longer bearing fruit? 
• Are you feeling alone, confused, or disappointed that you haven’t found the meaning and fulfillment you hoped for?  
• Do you feel stymied in your current occupation and ready to pursue a higher purpose? 

Even though you appear to be the model of success from the outside, you may question what kind of impact you are having on the world and worry that what you do doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Now that you have achieved all you set out to do, perhaps it doesn’t feel how you imagined it would.

You May Be Trying To Figure Out What’s Next For You

If you’ve reached a crossroads, you might have taken stock of your life and determined something is missing. Maybe you’ve always been a high-achiever who has prioritized your career over developing close connections with others. Although you are where you want to be professionally, you might lack the romantic relationship you desire and want to share your life with someone. 

Perhaps you’ve reached a place in your career where you no longer feel challenged—resting on your laurels isn’t fun and you want new goals. You may also want to expand your efforts beyond monetary success and give back in some way, but you’re not sure where to start. 

Life transition therapy is a supportive collaboration that focuses on defining who you are and exploring what will bring your life meaning and purpose. When you discover what makes you tick, you can reframe how you operate in the world and shift your goals to address areas you may have missed or overlooked.

Therapy Can Help You Navigate Life Transitions And Discover A Renewed Purpose

Perhaps you’ve achieved success and, having reached the “end of the rainbow,” find yourself searching for deeper meaning. Your pursuit of professional goals may have overshadowed cultivating close relationships, but now you’re ready to focus energy on other facets of life that may have been neglected or set aside. Or maybe you’re ready to pivot away from your current career and focus on new intellectual, financial, or philanthropic opportunities.

As a licensed therapist and coach, I offer life transitions therapy, a no-nonsense approach to help you answer the question, “What’s next?” I aim to partner with you on your journey to discover a more meaningful, fulfilling, and satisfying life.

What To Expect In Sessions

Each session will be collaborative and tailored to your goals, desires, and intentions. To begin, you will take a personality test to help identify your strengths and weaknesses. We will also explore your history, identifying lifelong patterns that may limit your ability to grow.

Once we better understand who you are and what makes you thrive, we will combine your preferences with general knowledge of how humans have historically found meaning. We will then craft an action plan to achieve the life you want to be living. 

Life transitions therapy can help you face fears and overcome the “What ifs” that prevent you from taking risks or making changes to improve your overall well-being. In counseling, we can also address other concerns, such as work-life balance, burnout, lack of self-care, imposter syndrome, and relationship-building. We will also pay close attention to health, wellness, and fitness and how physical strength contributes to mental health.

Life Transitions Counseling Will Integrate Evolutionary Biology With Your Goals And Desire

From an evolutionary psychology perspective, we can think about mental stagnation due to a mismatch between our basic biology and environment. Humans evolved to be reactive to constant threats and are wired to be on the run. When we remove challenges from life, we often look for other problems to solve or even create new ones of our own. 

Rather than equating the achievement of success with no longer having meaningful goals, the answer is to pivot, find new objectives, and direct your energy toward them. Using a combination of evidence-based approaches, such as somatic therapy, psychology, neuroscience, and performance optimization, life transitions counseling will provide you with the tools and guidance you need to begin your next chapter with more clarity and confidence.

With support and expert guidance, you can identify the areas in your life that are lacking and create a plan to fill them. Experiencing one or two major shifts in perspective that lead to action can have a profound effect on your life trajectory. By digging deeper to understand your nature, you can connect to what brings meaning and fulfillment.

But Maybe You’re Not Sure If Life Transitions Therapy Is Right For You…

I had a bad experience with a life transitions therapist in the past.

Perhaps your previous experiences with therapy felt limiting because you focused on the past rather than looking forward. Therapy with me will focus on empowerment, personal growth, and development. My goal is to make you feel stronger after each session. We achieve that by keeping a present and future-focused perspective that taps into your inner resilience and full potential.

Shouldn’t I be able to handle life transitions on my own without needing counseling?

As a successful and high-achieving person, you value efficiency and seek the quickest way to feel better. Although working on yourself through trial and error may eventually yield results, it will take longer. Life transitions counseling with a qualified therapist and coach with the expertise to help you achieve results will be a rewarding experience. Whether you need guidance with a career change or are ready to start dating after a long hiatus, with counseling, you don’t have to put off feeling better any longer. 

With my hectic schedule, I don’t have time for life transitions therapy.

Understandably, you’re probably pulled in so many directions that it’s hard to imagine making time for one more thing. But when you consider how illuminating personal development counseling can be, you realize that it’s time well spent. Rather than thinking of it as just “one more thing,” prioritizing what’s important to you and letting other things go in therapy can actually free up more of your time.

Rediscover Your Passion And Purpose 

If you’re ready to find new opportunities and make shifts, I’d love to work with you. To find out more about life transitions therapy with me, either in person in Pacific Beach or online, please contact me.