Quarterlife Center - Counseling for Young Adults

Experiences with grief during the COVID-19 crisis can be multi-layered and complicated. Grieving the death of someone close to us, whether from COVID-19 or another cause, poses unique challenges during young adulthood and the quarter-life period. As you are faced with news coverage of COVID-19 related deaths, you may find that grief related to previous losses is triggered. Grieving the death of a loved one due to COVID-19 is also a challenge that many young adults are facing. This group provides a safe space for emotional exploration, structured support, and grief education, especially in the context of the pandemic. It will also give you an opportunity to connect with other quarterlifers who are grieving during the pandemic. This support group can help you: Receive structured support from an experienced grief counselor in a small-group setting (max of 6 people). Learn about the grief process. Explore your thoughts and feelings in a safe space. Connect with other quarterlifers who are ...

Grieving the death of someone close to us  poses unique challenges during young adulthood and the quarter-life period .  This group, led by Quarterlife Center therapist,  Joanna Strait, LCSW-C ,  focuses on providing a safe space for emotional exploration, structured support, and grief education following loss. Each group is 6 weeks in duration, and it is asked that participants attend a minimum of 4 of these sessions. This support group can help you: Receive structured support from an experienced grief counselor. Learn about the grief process. Explore your thoughts and feelings in a safe space. Connect with other quarterlifers who are grieving. Details:  This support group includes 6 sessions. Each session is 1 hour & 15 minutes in length. Location:  5530 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Time/Date:  TBD by availability of participants. If you are interested in learning more about the group, please  contact us .

Grieving the death of someone close to us  poses unique challenges during young adulthood and the quarter-life period . This group, led by Quarterlife Center therapist,   Joanna Strait, LCSW-C , focuses on providing a safe space for emotional exploration, structured support, and grief education following loss. Each group is 6 weeks in duration, and it is asked that participants attend a minimum of 4 of these sessions. This support group can help you: Receive structured support from an experienced grief counselor. Learn about the grief process. Explore your thoughts and feelings in a safe space. Connect with other quarterlifers who are grieving. Details:  This support group includes 6 sessions. Each session is 1 hour & 15 minutes in length. Location:  5530 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Time/Date:  TBD by availability of participants. If you are interested in learning more about the group, please  contact us .

Grieving the death of someone close to us poses unique challenges during young adulthood and the quarter-life period. This group, led by Quarterlife Center therapist,  Joanna Strait, LCSW-C , focuses on providing a safe space for emotional exploration, structured support, and grief education following loss. Each group is 6 weeks in duration, and it is asked that participants attend a minimum of 4 of these sessions. Location:  5530 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Time/Date:  TBD by availability of participants Cost:  $400 for 6 sessions. First session on January 29th from 5:00-6:15 pm If you are interested in learning more about the group, please  contact us .

Are you in your twenties or thirties and grieving the death of a loved one? If you are, you already know that this is a particularly difficult time of life to grieve the loss of someone you love. Grieving a loss as a young adult is challenging for several reasons: 1) Experiencing grief during the quarterlife phase of life is an “off-time” life event, meaning that it is not expected to occur during that phase of life. We do not expect that young adults will have to experience the death of a friend or sibling, so it’s a non-normative event. It is expected, however, that a quarterlifer would experience the death of a grandparent, and this expected event is called an “on-time” or normative event. Off-time events have been found to be harder to cope with because they often feel unjust and unexpected. Because grief during the quarterlife stage of life is non-normative, quarterlifers who are mourning are likely to feel alone because peers don’t share and understand their experience. ...

Grief has many causes and many faces. Losing a loved one, and then feeling alone in your grief can feel devastating. Grieving is never easy, but the grieving process for young adults (quarterlifers) is particularly rough .  With a few exceptions, a young adult doesn’t expect to face the death of a loved one. Because grieving a death is non-normative during this phase of life, a grieving quarterlifer is apt to feel like peers don’t understand. Additionally, it can be challenging to find resources and help for grieving young adults. As a 25 year-old grieving client expressed, “my friends don’t know how to handle my sadness. I feel so alone . . . like everyone is tiptoeing around me.” The following poem captures this feeling and illuminates the most important way in which you can help a young adult who is grieving: “Elephant in the Room” by Terry Kettering “There’s an elephant in the room. It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it. Yet we squeeze by with, ...

Grieving the death of someone close to us poses unique challenges during young adulthood and the quarter-life period. This group, led by Quarterlife Center therapist,  Joanna Strait, LCSW-C , focuses on providing a safe space for emotional exploration, structured support, and grief education following loss. Each group is 6 weeks in duration, and it is asked that participants attend a minimum of 4 of these sessions. Location:  5530 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Time/Date:  TBD by availability of participants Cost:  $400 for 6 sessions. If you are interested in learning more about the group, please  contact us .

Grieving the death of someone close to us poses unique challenges during young adulthood and the quarter-life period. This group, led by Quarterlife Center therapist,  Joanna Strait, LCSW-C , focuses on providing a safe space for emotional exploration, structured support, and grief education following loss. Each group is 6 weeks in duration, and it is asked that participants attend a minimum of 4 of these sessions. Location:  5530 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Time/Date:  TBD by availability of participants Cost:  $400 for 6 sessions. If you are interested in learning more about the group, please  contact us .

If you’re a millennial in a relationship that is facing new challenges, you are not alone. Making important life decisions as a couple in your 20s and 30s is complicated, whether you’re deciding to move in together, get engaged, have a baby, or simply slow the pace and give each other some time to reflect and grow. Improving communication and effectively working through conflict will help you resolve these challenges.  If you are thinking about starting couples counseling, read this post to learn what it’s like. What is couples counseling? Couples counseling is counseling (also known as therapy) that focuses on the issues that a couple is facing, in contrast to  individual counseling , which focuses on one person’s problems, and in contrast to  family therapy , which focuses on the family unit. In couples counseling, your therapist will help you as a couple to identify your interaction patterns and explore how you each contribute to your dynamic. Through couns...