Life Transition Counseling

Major life transitions are a part of life. Whether positive (starting a new job) or negative (loss of a job or loved one), you will encounter a significant shift in your life at some point. While some transition with ease, some of us may feel like our lives are turned upside down. Click here to learn more about major types of life transitions.

Whether you’re getting married, moving to a different town, or even mourning over a loved ones’ death, these are experiences that zap your strength and cause you so much stress. More often than not, this kind of life transition period even catches us off-guard and sends us reeling in new and unexpected ways. All of which can be profound moments of transformation.

Managing Difficult Life Transitions

Based on many factors, life transitions can differ and are unique to each one of us. What may feel like a massive change to you may not seem like that for someone else. Such changes may be optimistic, negative, anticipated, accidental, and emotional. Whichever kind it is, it will still have a substantial impact on your life. 

These are some of the life changes that can impact your mental well-being:

• A New Baby
• Loss of a loved one
• Disabling accidents/tragedy
• Divorce/Breakups
• Health problems
• Job changes
• Marriage
• Moving
• Social/ Political changes
• Travel

Major life transitions in adults can cause so much stress and can affect your everyday life. You may experience depression, anxiety, or fatigue; have headaches; have difficulty sleeping, overeating, self-deprivation, or misuse alcohol and drugs. 

With our life transitions therapy, we can help you manage stress symptoms. 

The purpose of life transition therapy is to encourage you to use safe coping strategies to get through these emotionally taxing transition periods. There are a few approaches used by our therapists to make you feel prepared in your life for the foreseeable future. These techniques will help lighten the change’s initial shock while allowing optimism for the future as well.

• Acknowledge that transition is an aspect of life 
• The shift doesn’t have to be negative. Stay hopeful. 
• Identify and voice emotions  
• Evaluate thoughts
• Manage stress
• Set realistic expectations 
• Keep a balanced schedule 
• Engage in social contact and support 
• Recognize the value of change
  

Talking about changes in life with us, such as a marriage, the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the approach of middle age, can be helpful for you. Any form of life transitions coaching is better tailored to helping you deal with drastic life changes.

If you know that you do not deal well with the growth, it might be advisable to talk to one of our professional therapists before any significant life changes occur. In this way, you can brace for improvements and become more prepared to face them in the future.

It takes time to adapt to what life offers, but these techniques can help during an adjustment phase. If you are struggling to deal with life changes at present and would like some help managing your situation, reach out to one of our counselors today.