Whether worried about your grades or experiencing a personal crisis, coping with college is hard. Counseling services for college students can help

College can be the first major life transition of your young adult life. It's full of excitement, new freedoms and experiences, and change. Change can be hard to navigate alone. Especially if it is your first experience living alone or being far from home, high school friends, and confidants... it's easy to feel alone.

Classes and coursework are just some of the things college students stress over. College may bring new obligations to manage time, money, schoolwork, a job, and personal responsibilities in a way you've never had to do before. This might be the first time you've had to independently structure your day and time. This freedom can be exhilarating...but sometimes it creates consequences you did not anticipate. You may find yourself behind with your work or struggling with the emotional effects of making decisions that have adverse outcomes.

Stress is normal, and these experiences are often a natural rite of passage into the independence of adulthood. But sometimes, these stressors or emotions become more than you can handle alone. Student mental health is a priority to overall success in academics and personal life. Having an ally to help support you in navigating these stressors can be a game changer.

Signs that you might need help coping with college:

Counseling services for college students are geared to directly impact the unique problems you might be facing. If you're experiencing any of these warning signs, you might benefit from the support of a trained, professional counselor:

·       Increased social isolation or withdrawal

·       Feeling excessive fatigue, lethargy, or lack of energy

·       Difficulty in focusing or completing work

·       Change in your personality, such as feeling angry, having violent outbursts, or being irritable

·       Using more alcohol or drugs than you intended to

·       A general sense of unhappiness over several weeks

·       Frequently struggling to attend class

·       Gain or loss of significant amounts of weight

·       Having relationship problems

·       Feeling alone and isolated

·       Experiencing a sexual assault

·       Not caring about personal hygiene

·       Feeling like you don't want to live or harming yourself

Choosing a supportive partner to help support your mental wellness is essential. Counseling for college students is one of our passions at Everthrive Counseling. Our supportive, licensed counselors are trained in the most effective counseling approaches to support student mental health.

Our counseling services for college students include:

·       Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: CBT is a proven therapeutic approach that helps manage symptoms of depression and anxiety. This approach is action-oriented to give you tools and help you take action toward the life you seek.

·       Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR is highly effective in treating trauma. Bad things can happen, and you might need help coping with the feelings that result from this.

·       Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): SBFT is a short-term approach that helps you to focus on the solutions to problems, not the problems themselves. The focus is on positive psychology principles and practices- hope, positive emotion eliciting, goal-directed, and future-oriented.

·       Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): Similar to CBT, this approach aims to teach you how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, and regulate emotions. The focus is to learn mindfulness skills to manage those difficult emotions.

Whether you want support for anxiety, depression, relationship issues, academic progress concerns, or college adjustment, seeking counseling for college students might be what you need. At Everthrive, our counselors work with students within a culturally sensitive, student-focused framework to support student mental health.

Reach out to us today at 833-473-3399. Counseling can be an opportunity to talk about your concerns, to give you control over things today and manage life's challenges down the road.