Therapy for College Students Carrying School and Life

You don’t have to be in crisis to come to therapy.

You might be taking online classes from a university hundreds of miles away while working a full-time job. You might be raising kids while finishing a degree after everyone else has gone to bed. You might be returning to school at 30, 40, or 50 and wondering why you thought adding discussion boards and research papers to an already-full life was a good idea.

You may be a first-generation college student, graduate student, veteran using your GI Bill, commuter, adult learner, or someone trying to finish the degree you started years ago.

Whatever brought you here, and whatever “college student” looks like for you, you belong here.

When you’re carrying school and the rest of your life

Sometimes school isn’t the only hard thing.

You’re answering work emails while thinking about the paper due Sunday. You’re trying to study after putting your kids to bed. You’re working shifts, managing a household, caring for family, maintaining relationships, paying bills and somewhere in there, you’re supposed to learn something.

It can be hard to explain why you’re struggling when you were the one who chose to go back to school.

You can be grateful for the opportunity and still be exhausted by what it requires.

What we can help with

At Unbound, we work with students navigating:

• Anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, and overthinking

• ADHD, procrastination, motivation, and executive functioning

• Academic pressure and perfectionism

• Online and asynchronous programs

• Graduate and professional programs

• Full-time work while attending school

• Parenting or caregiving while earning a degree

• Returning to school later in life

• Military-to-college transitions

• First-generation college experiences

• Homesickness and adjusting to being away from home

• Friendships, roommates, dating, breakups, and situationships

• Loneliness and finding where you belong

• Identity, faith, family, and life transitions

• Trauma and difficult family experiences

• The pressure of trying to figure out what comes next

Or maybe nothing is dramatically wrong.

You’re just overwhelmed.

That’s enough reason to reach out.

Therapy that doesn’t feel like another assignment

You don’t need to show up knowing exactly what to talk about.

Come in your comfy clothes. Bring your coffee. Sit on the floor if that’s where you’re comfortable. Make something while you talk. Take a walk with your therapist when available.

And if you’re joining us virtually between work, class, school pickup, and whatever else your day has thrown at you? That’s okay, too.

No perfect therapy language required. No need to have everything figured out before you get here.

Wherever you are in your education, we’ll meet you there

Ready to talk?

We offer in-person counseling in Morgantown and secure telehealth across West Virginia.

Call: (304) 241-1854
Email: info@unboundcounseling.org
Schedule: https://www.unboundcounseling.org/schedule