Adulthood doesn’t begin with a roadmap. You’re figuring out school, work, relationships, independence—and it’s easy to feel like you’re behind. Maybe anxiety or overthinking keep you stuck. Maybe motivation has disappeared, or the routines that used to work just… don’t anymore.
At Gofman Therapy and Consulting, we help young adults make sense of what’s going on and take steps toward the life they want. In therapy, that means understanding the patterns underneath the stuckness and building practical tools to move forward. We serve clients in-person at our office in Westport, CT, and virtually throughout Connecticut and Virginia.
What to Expect from Therapy for Young Adults in Westport
You don’t need to have it all figured out before you start therapy. Most of the young adults we work with come in feeling some version of the same thing: stuck, overwhelmed, or just tired of struggling alone.
Maybe anxiety is running the show—every decision feels high-stakes, and you’re constantly second-guessing yourself. Maybe intrusive thoughts or compulsions are taking up more of your day than anyone realizes. Maybe it’s your relationship with food or your body. Or maybe everything just feels flat, and the motivation that used to come easily is gone.
Whatever’s bringing you in, therapy is a space to figure out what’s actually going on—not just the surface-level stuff, but the patterns underneath. From there, we work on practical tools you can use in daily life: managing stress, building structure, setting boundaries, and getting unstuck without burning out.
Sessions at our Westport office are collaborative and direct. We’ll meet you where you are, help you get clear on what you want, and build a realistic path forward—together.
We also offer virtual therapy for young adults throughout Connecticut and Virginia.
What We Help With
Young adults come to therapy with all kinds of challenges. Some of the most common:
- Anxiety, OCD, and intrusive thoughts
- Perfectionism, procrastination, or burnout
- Low motivation, confidence, or direction
- Eating disorders and body image concerns
- Executive functioning and organization challenges
- Relationship patterns and communication skills
- Life transitions and adjusting to new independence
Therapy Built for This Stage of Life
There’s a reason this stretch of life feels harder than anyone warned you. You’re building an identity, making decisions that feel permanent, and trying to have it together—all while measuring yourself against everyone else’s highlight reel. Feeling behind or overwhelmed by all of it is far more common than it may feel.
There are really two layers to what young adults bring us. One is the immediate impact of what you’re carrying—the anxiety, the intrusive thoughts, the relationship with food. The other is the bigger, messier work underneath it: who you are, what actually matters to you, and where you’re headed. We work on both, because at this stage they’re rarely separate.
Our Approach
Our therapists use evidence-based approaches—including CBT, ACT, DBT, and ERP—to help you manage anxiety, build confidence, and get unstuck from cycles that aren’t working. Sessions are collaborative and practical: we meet you where you are and build a realistic path forward, together.
If the challenge is more about career direction—figuring out what you want to do, a stalled job search, or making sense of a nonlinear path—our career coaching can help, on its own or alongside therapy. Many young adults do both.
Our Therapists
Our young-adult therapists are licensed clinicians experienced with this stage of life:
Available in-person at our Westport, CT office and virtually throughout Connecticut and Virginia.
