San Francisco, Marin, & East Bay Therapists

The Therapy Network includes a diverse group of psychologists, therapists and clinical social workers. Our aim is to help you find a therapist that is qualified and appropriate for your needs and resources. Therapy Network serves San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Albany, Corte Madera, Kentfield, the City of Sonoma and Walnut Creek and the rest of the Bay Area.

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Life Transitions/Decision-making

Throughout life we experience a series of transitions: leaving home for college, defining our adult identity, finding a career and a life partner, starting a family, getting divorced, changing careers, surviving our children's adolescence and launching them only to face an empty nest, struggling with a midlife crisis, getting divorced or rekindling love after an affair, caring for your older parents and watching their death, facing your own mortality.

Your emotions at these junctures may surprise you: My child left for college, and that's what we worked for. Why do I feel so sad? My Dad's inability to care for himself has me really upset. I don't think I should feel angry about this, but I do.

Transitions from old to new can startle us, even hobble us. At such crucial times, it can feel almost impossible to make decisions, especially about life-changing questions involving career, children, or marriage. Transitions - ours or our loved one's - also trigger unexplored issues that we now have to deal with: old abandonment issues and losses, problems with autonomy and self-confidence, not feeling safe in the world, feeling threatened in familiar yet unexamined ways. The decision-making techniques and coping methods that worked in the past may no longer apply.

Therapy can help you look at these new feelings and use them as an opportunity to move forward. Therapy provides a safe place to explore, to get to know yourself as you grow and change and live your life.

Transitions like going to college or starting a new career can cause unexpected emotions to emerge. Therapy can help you look at these new feelings and use them as an opportunity to move forward.

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