Therapy for undergraduate and graduate college and university students in San Diego, California and Virginia
Sometimes college just sucks. You can’t find your people, you know the ones you were supposed to have when you decided to go here. You got in and this was not what they said it would be on the college website.
Studying, studying, and studying. Picture is of person in sweater writing with notebooks spread around them. Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash
School is much harder than you thought it would be. The stress is almost unbearable, the teachers push you and you just can’t seem to know what they want. You had an IEP in high school but you thought you had figured out your ADHD or LD and you would be fine now, on your own.
Your thought it would be better when you got to university. Instead, here you are, trying to figure out not only what you want to study, but who you are including your gender, sexual, orientation, and religious identities. All you know is that you are surrounded by people who don’t seem to get your nerdy college student self and you miss home.
You miss your high school friends but they are living it up in college and don’t have time to talk. Your family doesn’t get it, after all, they didn’t go to school and so you can’t really share why it’s not working for you after they worked so hard to get you here. You feel alone.
You tried to reach out, first to your RA but she didn’t really seem to get your concerns. You went to the counseling center, but soon learned that they were all booked up until next semester and you really can’t wait that long. Then they said that when you get in to see them that they couldn’t meet with you for more than one or two sessions and you want someone who you can see weekly who will really listen to you
Dr. Camilla Williams (left), Dr. ABigail Weissman (middle), and Dr. Melissa James (our Director of Operations; Right)
Waves’ psychologists are here to help. We are well versed in the problems that can stress out college and university students. We won’t judge you. We are here to support you in working through what’s been getting you down, be it school stress, figuring out your gender(s) and/or sexual orientation, religion or whatever is on your mind. We’ll really listen and support you.
We are usually able to get new clients in an appointment with one of our therapists within a week. And we get the you might not have access to a printer, so most of our forms can be filled out online, through the client portal.
We have two physical locations: one in Rancho Bernardo and one in Banker’s Hill, San Diego and we also do provide virtual / online video sessions through an encrypted server.
