How Therapy Helps You Re-Anchor

My approach to treating Adjustment Disorders is focused on stabilizing your emotional response and building rapid, effective coping skills. We will work together to:

• Acknowledge and Process: Create a safe space to fully recognize the impact of the stressor without judgment.

• Develop Coping Strategies: Learn immediate, practical techniques to manage the intense symptoms, whether that is depression, anxiety, or behavioral changes.

• Restore Functioning: Move you quickly back toward your baseline, helping you feel capable and in control of your life again.

• Build Resilience: Transform this difficult transition into an opportunity to strengthen your long-term ability to handle future challenges.

When Stress Becomes Too Much

Adjustment Disorder is a temporary but powerful reaction that occurs when you are unable to successfully adapt to a specific stressor in your life. This is more than just feeling stressed; it's a clinically significant response that often begins within three months of the event and severely disrupts your ability to function normally at work, in relationships, or at home.

Common triggers include:

• Relationship shifts: Divorce, separation, or the start of a new, demanding relationship.

• Major losses: The death of a loved one, job loss, or financial setbacks.

• Big moves: Relocating, starting a new job, or entering a new phase of life (like retirement).

• Health issues: Receiving a diagnosis or managing a chronic condition.

• The goal is not to ignore the event, but to process its emotional weight so that you can complete the natural period of adjustment and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.