Anxiety, Depression, Academic Pressure, and Finding Your Footing
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(512) 240-2633Nobody really tells you what the first months of college are going to feel like. The dorm at midnight when everyone else seems fine. The professor who does not know your name. The classes that move at three times the speed of high school. The friend group that has not quite cohered. The Sunday-night dread that has somehow followed you here.
You are sleeping wrong. Eating wrong. Maybe drinking too much, or pulling away from people, or scrolling until your eyes burn. The anxiety you used to be able to push through has gotten loud. Or the heaviness that used to lift in the summer is sitting on your chest in a way that does not lift anymore. You came here to do something with your life, and instead you are wondering if you are going to make it through this semester.
You can have therapy that is actually built for this. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to talk it through.
This is not your campus counseling center. The center has its place, and we are not anti-counseling-center, but the rhythm there is often six free sessions and a referral. Here, you get continuity. You get the same therapist every week. You get someone who has been doing this for sixteen years and who is not running between five other students stacked back-to-back.
Sessions are virtual, which matters more than people realize. You do not have to walk across campus to a building where someone you know might see you going in. You meet from your room. From your apartment. From the library if that is where you can find privacy. Research consistently shows that virtual therapy works just as well as in-person for the things college students are wrestling with: anxiety, depression, panic, sleep, the spiraling thoughts, the avoidance.
If you are a college student reading this, the work is yours. Parents are involved only in the way you choose. Some students want a parent on a consultation call to help work out logistics or payment, then it is just you and Dr. Kroll from there. Some students want zero parent involvement, and that is fine too. You are an adult, you are protected by HIPAA, and what you say in session is between you and your therapist.
If you are a parent reading this, what helps your college student most right now is letting them lead. Forwarding this page to them, saying "no pressure, just here if you want it," and stepping back is often the move. We are happy to do parent-only consultations if you want to think through how to support without taking over.
Yes, as long as you are physically located in Texas or one of the 41 other PSYPACT states. Most students stay continuous through breaks, summer included.
Many students start there and then move to ongoing care here once their session limit runs out. Bring whatever has been useful from those sessions and we will pick up from where you are.
Little Dove Psychology is a private-pay practice. We provide a superbill you can submit for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Some students pay themselves; some have parents who pay; some use student health insurance for the superbill route.
If you are in immediate crisis, please call 988 (the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or go to your nearest emergency room. Therapy with us is for ongoing support. On the consultation call we will talk about whether what you are facing is the right fit for outpatient virtual therapy or whether a higher level of care would serve you better right now.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation. We will talk through what is going on, whether this is the right fit, and what next steps could look like. No pressure, no commitment.
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