Young Adult Therapy in Los Angeles (Ages 18-25)
Young Adult Therapy
Find Direction in Your Twenties.
Expert support for emerging adults facing life's biggest transitions.
Why This Stage Matters
Your twenties are when choices start to matter differently. The brain continues developing through the twenties, but the deeper work is figuring out who you are when you're making your own decisions. Not in reaction to your family or to prove something, but because it actually fits who you're becoming.
This stage is about examining what you absorbed growing up (values, expectations, ways of being in relationships) and choosing consciously what works for your adult life. Some things you'll keep. Others you'll outgrow. That's the work.
The struggles that surface now (chronic indecision, relationships that follow the same disappointing pattern, feeling like a fraud despite real accomplishments) usually point to something deeper worth understanding.
We support young adults with:
Life Direction
Quarter-life paralysis when external achievements feel hollow or someone else's goals
Career anxiety rooted in choosing what looks right versus what actually fits
The gap between how your life looks on paper and how it feels from inside
Questions about meaning and purpose that productivity can't answer
Mental Health
Depression that shows up as numbness, disconnection, or going through motions
Anxiety about the future when uncertainty feels intolerable
Perfectionism and imposter syndrome that undermine you despite real accomplishments
Substance use and what it helps you avoid feeling
Relationships + Identity
Reworking family relationships as you become an adult (without losing connection)
Romantic patterns that repeat in ways you recognize but can't seem to change
Social anxiety about being known as you actually are, not just as you perform
LGBTQIA+ identity development, including transgender and non-binary young adults
Neurodivergence (including ADHD and autism) when old coping strategies stop working
What to Expect
We work from the understanding that struggles have meaning. Anxiety, feeling stuck, or patterns you can't break usually signal something important trying to get your attention. Often what looks like not trying hard enough is actually an unconscious conflict between who you think you should be and who you actually are.
The work combines practical support (how to have difficult conversations, make decisions, set boundaries) with deeper exploration of patterns in relationships and self-perception. We help you understand what drives your choices so you can make different ones when old strategies stop serving you.
Most young adults come to therapy feeling they should have things figured out by now. The space becomes a place to examine that pressure and discover what you want when you're not performing for an invisible audience.
We help you build a relationship with yourself based on genuine self-knowledge, not self-improvement projects that never quite work.
Goal: Develop confidence in your own direction that comes from understanding yourself, not from external validation.
Our Approach
We specialize in emerging adulthood because this developmental stage requires specific clinical expertise. You're constructing an adult identity, which means the strategies that worked in your family or in school often need updating. The ways you learned to get love, stay safe, or earn approval show up in adult relationships and sometimes constrain you in ways you can see but can't shift alone.
Our therapists work psychodynamically to help you understand patterns you didn't consciously choose. We use EMDR to process past experiences that still shape your present, teach DBT skills for managing intense emotions, and apply attachment theory to understand how early relationships become blueprints for later ones.
We understand the psychological tasks specific to this stage: becoming your own person while maintaining meaningful relationships, building intimacy based on reality rather than fantasy, tolerating the uncertainty inherent in creating an adult life, and developing a sense of self that can hold complexity.
The therapeutic relationship becomes a space where patterns can surface, be examined, and eventually change. You get to practice being yourself without the adaptations you've relied on to get by.
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