Have you found yourself struggling to cope with stressors that seem to be infinitely increasing? Feeling an often-present sense of worry, foreboding, or anxiety? Unable to find interest in things that used to bring you enjoyment? Wishing you could just crawl back under the covers in the morning and sleep everything away? Or maybe you’ve started to notice frustrating or unsettling changes or patterns in yourself or your relationships with others. For example, it might look like being “hard on yourself,” frequently feeling paralyzing guilt or shame, or experiencing thoughts like “I hate who I am,” or “Why can’t I just [fill in the blank]?” You might have tried over and over again to change, but still feel “stuck” and unable to overcome the “internal battle” that happens to all of us when part of us feels one way, but another part feels the opposite. Or perhaps for you it’s a suffocating sense of loneliness…maybe you’ve noticed that it seems like no one around you can see or understand your pain. Or maybe it’s not even those around you…maybe you feel stuck inside, unable to make sense of your own thoughts, feelings, experiences, and identity, much less help those around you understand. It could be something more vague than that, though…just a general disconnection from yourself, or from life and loved ones around you.

If any of those struggles describe how you’re feeling, you need to know this: you are not alone, and you are in the right place! Individual therapy at Rooted Way Counseling can help you untangle these thoughts, feelings, experiences, and struggles. Through a journey of individual therapy, you can work with your therapist to figure out what’s holding you back, and where you’d like to be. You can experience a lighter load. Change is possible. Healing is available to you.