Individual Therapy
Therapy for College Students
Support for academic pressure, perfectionism, OCD, and the stress of high achievement
College can be exciting and deeply hard at the same time. Therapy can help you manage the pressure, understand what is driving your stress, and find steadier footing while you are here.
- Academic pressure feels constant, hard to turn off, or affecting your health
- Perfectionism or OCD is getting in the way of your performance or enjoyment
- Anxiety, burnout, or imposter syndrome are making college feel unsustainable
- The transition to college life — independence, relationships, identity — is harder than expected
- You want support that understands your world and fits your schedule
- Understanding and managing high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism, and OCD
- Building coping tools for academic stress, burnout, and performance pressure
- Processing identity, independence, and the emotional complexity of college life
What This Support Can Address
A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.
Getting into a rigorous university like Cal Poly takes real talent and drive. But that same drive can make it harder to slow down, ask for help, or recognize when anxiety, perfectionism, or OCD are running the show. Many high-achieving students find that the pressure to perform never quite turns off — and that the transition to college life, living independently, and navigating a demanding environment hits harder than expected.
Our Approach
How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.
Our therapists understand the specific pressure that comes with being a motivated, high-functioning student. We work with college students to untangle performance anxiety, perfectionism, and OCD from their sense of self-worth, and to build more sustainable ways of managing stress, setbacks, and uncertainty.
Therapists Connected to This Work
These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to therapy for college students.
