College is supposed to be the best years. You're supposed to find your people, discover your direction, and build toward something. For a lot of students, that narrative fits reasonably well. For others, the gap between that story and what's actually happening — the loneliness, the anxiety, the performance pressure, the creeping sense that everyone else has a self and you're still waiting for yours to arrive — can feel impossible to admit out loud.
This is a place to admit it. And to go somewhere real with it.
What college actually asks of you
College isn't just an academic challenge. It's a developmental one. You're being asked to become a person — to figure out what you believe, who you are outside your family, what kind of relationships you want, and what you actually care about — while simultaneously performing well enough to satisfy everyone who is watching. That's an enormous amount to hold at once, and the campus counseling center's six-session limit was not designed for it.
The pressure underneath the performance
For high-achieving students, college can quietly sharpen a pattern that was already there: the conviction that your value depends entirely on what you produce. You got here by being impressive, and now there are more impressive people on every side, and the internal bar keeps rising. The anxiety isn't laziness and it isn't weakness. It's what happens when your entire sense of safety has been built on a performance that now feels perpetually at risk.
And then there are the questions that grades can't answer: whether the major you chose actually means something to you, whether the relationships you have are real, whether the version of yourself you're presenting to the world is the one you actually live in. These are the questions that bring students to therapy — not because something is wrong with them, but because they're taking their own interior life seriously enough to ask.
What I offer that campus counseling often can't
I'm a private practice therapist, which means we aren't limited to a set number of sessions, there's no waiting list, and the work doesn't stop at symptom management. I'm interested in what's underneath the anxiety, the perfectionism, the difficulty connecting — not just in helping you get through the semester.
My approach is psychodynamic and attachment-informed, which means we pay attention to patterns: where they come from, what they've been protecting, and what it might look like to relate to yourself and others from a different place. I work with students who are struggling and with students who are functioning well but know something is missing. Both are real.
Sessions are $200 for 50 minutes. I'm an out-of-network provider; if your insurance includes out-of-network mental health benefits, I'll provide a superbill so you can seek reimbursement. Many students are also covered under a parent's plan through age 26 — worth checking before you assume this is out of reach.
A short video on this work
Is this you?
- You're performing well on the outside while something quieter and harder is going on underneath.
- You feel more anxious, more disconnected, or more lost than you expected to feel.
- You've always been the high achiever, and now the stakes feel higher than your coping can cover.
- You're not sure you chose your path — you followed the one that was already laid out.
- You find intimacy difficult, or friendships feel surface-level even when you want them to go deeper.
- Campus counseling has a waitlist, or six sessions wasn't enough.
- You want a therapist who will take the larger questions seriously, not just help you survive the week.
If you recognized yourself there, this is a place for you.