Who I Help
Therapy for College Students & Young Adults in Ohio
There Is No Map for the Messy Middle
College and early adulthood can feel exciting, confusing, lonely, overwhelming—and sometimes all of those things before lunch.
You may be making decisions about school, work, relationships, independence, and the person you want to become while quietly wondering whether everyone else received instructions that you somehow missed.
You are allowed to be in the middle of becoming.
Does This Feel Familiar?
- You feel behind when you compare yourself with other people.
- You are questioning your major, career, relationship, or direction.
- College does not feel the way you expected it to feel.
- You are caught between independence and family expectations.
- You feel lonely even when you are surrounded by people.
- Every decision feels like it could determine the rest of your life.
- Adult responsibilities feel heavier than anyone prepared you for.
- You know something needs to change but do not know where to begin.
- You are trying to figure out who you are outside of other people's expectations.
What the Messy Middle Can Look Like
Nobody hands you the instructions, and the people who look like they have them are usually improvising too. It tends to show up in three places.
In the Logistics
- A calendar that only works if nothing goes wrong.
- Laundry, meals and a paper, all competing for the same hour.
- A to-do list that has quietly become a measure of your worth.
In the Questions
- A major you chose at seventeen and now have to defend.
- Everyone else seeming to have a plan they did not show you.
- Wanting to go home and wanting to be far from it, in the same week.
In the Quiet
- A Friday night that shows you what the group chat actually is.
- Calling home and editing out the hard parts.
- The particular tiredness of becoming someone on purpose.
You Do Not Need an Instant Answer
Therapy can give you room to sort through the noise without being rushed into a decision. We can talk about independence, relationships, identity, academic pressure, career uncertainty, family expectations, routines, and the fear of choosing the wrong path.
Together, we can clarify what matters to you, understand what is keeping you stuck, and identify a next step that feels manageable—not perfect.
Ways We Can Work Together
Individual Therapy
Ongoing support as you navigate changes, relationships, anxiety, identity, and growing independence.
The College Transition Intensive
Focused support for preparing for college or adjusting to college life.
The Young Adult Life Reset Intensive
Space to work through one decision, pattern, or barrier and develop a manageable plan for what comes next.
What Sessions Are Like
Your early twenties are sold as freedom and often arrive as a series of decisions you are told are permanent. Most of them are not. A major can change. A plan can be revised. A semester can be survived rather than enjoyed.
We work on the thing in front of you — the decision, the relationship, the semester, the job — and underneath it, the pattern that keeps making the same week repeat. We look at what you actually want, separated from what sounds impressive to say out loud, and then we test a next step small enough to survive a bad Tuesday.
Most sessions at this stage happen online, which means one can take place from a dorm, an apartment, or a parked car between classes. Nothing has to be arranged around a commute, and nothing has to be explained to a roommate.
Where Else This Shows Up
The uncertainty of this stage often arrives wearing another name. If it is mostly worry — the loops, the what-ifs, the preparing for problems that have not happened — that is anxiety and overthinking. If it is the sense that everyone else is a real person and you are performing one, that is self-esteem and identity. And if the difficulty is starting and finishing rather than deciding, look at ADHD and executive functioning.
You do not have to pick correctly before we talk. Most people arrive with two of these at once, and the first session is partly about working out which one to start with.
What to Expect
It starts with a free 15-minute consultation — a short call to say what has been happening and ask anything you want to ask. No forms to fill out first, no commitment at the end of it, and no pressure to sound like you have it together.
If it feels like a fit, the first appointment is a longer assessment so I can understand the whole picture before we start working. After that, sessions are ongoing — usually weekly to start, then spaced out as things steady. Individual therapy is $175 for the initial assessment and $150 per appointment, private pay, with a limited number of sliding-scale spots. The Fees & FAQs page has the full detail, including out-of-network reimbursement if you want to submit to your insurance.
Sessions happen in person at my Kent office — 1640 Franklin Ave, Suite 222 — or online, anywhere in Ohio.
Getting Here
The office is at 1640 Franklin Ave, Suite 222, Kent, Ohio 44240, in downtown Kent. It is a short drive from Ravenna, Streetsboro, Stow, Hudson, Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge and Akron, and about twenty minutes from Kent State University.
If getting to Kent is the thing that has kept this on the list for a while, sessions are also available online, anywhere in Ohio. Same therapist, same work, and no commute — a phone or a laptop in a room where you will not be overheard is enough.
I answer inquiries Monday through Friday, 9am to 6pm. Messages that arrive over the weekend get a reply on the next business day.
Prefer email? coloroutsidethelinescounseling@gmail.com
You Are Not Behind
Your life does not need to follow someone else's timeline to be meaningful. If you are somewhere between where you were and where you want to be, we can begin there.