Specialties
In my time in this field I’ve worked with a range of clients in vastly different life stages and hope to keep doing so, but some of the best fits have been with people who identify with one of the issues below. I have personally experienced how transformative therapy can be and many of these topics hit very close to home. I’d love to help you work through these too.
Learn more about these areas of focus
Adult Children of Alcoholics/Addicts
You grew up parenting yourself and now struggle to navigate relationships in your adulthood. You experience self-doubt and tend to seek validation from others. You have chronic people pleasing behaviors and avoid phone calls from family because it’s exhausting trying to set and maintain boundaries with them. I want to help you find the courage and compassion to discover your own needs and assert them with others in order to build deep and meaningful relationships in which you can thrive.
Loneliness
Are you a creative introvert who often feels lonely? Maybe you feel overwhelmed, in your head and like you’re floating through your days. There are countless reasons to feel alone in today’s world, and we most often feel lonely when we are disconnected from our own experiences. Being with and around others more frequently would be a welcome and simple solution to loneliness, but it’s not a complete solution. Therapy can help you reconnect with your self, your needs and values so that you may participate in the world in a more connected and self-loving way.
Therapy for Helping Professions
The work that helping professions do is increasingly demanding. As much as we try to separate the work we do from our personal lives, it tends to creep into other areas of our lives and lead to burnout and disruption in close relationships. I’ve worked with nurses, educators, therapists and other helpers who are worried about being a burden to those in their personal lives and seeking a more dedicated space to debrief from their work. Therapy for a helping professional might also include building skills around self-advocacy, boundary setting and communication in order to be more effective at your job and create better work-life balance and prevent burnout. You deserve to show up for yourself, too.
College-related Issues
As a first-generation college student who has also been employed in several areas of higher education, I have worked hard to understand the growing pains of navigating the college experience. With it comes huge periods of transition, real world skill building, interpersonal obstacles and deep self-exploration. I’ve been told several times from college students that I was the first person in their college career who made them feel that their experiences were normal and valid. I want therapy to be a low-pressure space of empowerment and growth for you. I want you to find your path, even if where you’re at right now isn’t it for you.
Grief and Loss
To experience grief or loss is to set out on your own steep and winding path of learning to live without. Every person I have worked with who is grieving some kind of loss has been so unique in how they experience and learn to manage the symptoms. It touches all areas of your life and can often feel suffocating. I can’t help you get rid of it, but I can certainly provide compassion and tools to help you learn to live with it in a way that is meaningful to you. Whether you’re dealing with bereavement, ambiguous loss, socio-political grief, loss of unfulfilled dreams or otherwise, I hope you’ll seek the support you deserve.
Krystol Alpert - Talk Therapy 