A quick check-in can do a lot to help when you need someone to help sort out your challenging situations that suddenly emerged and challenged your ability to make senses of it.  You may consider making a few appointments just for a short period of time to respond to this urgent issue.  You can use either a 30 minute or 50 minute check in;  most insurance will cover it when it is medically necessary.   Alternative payment options can be explored when you make the appointment.

In case your initial consultation has not been able to resolve all the issues that prompted your need for help,  or you have previously worked with other therapists and it did not quite address all your concerns, you may consider engaging into a longer period of counseling to focus and find resource for your unique challenge and scenarios.  It usually takes weekly appointments for a few months, and will be covered by your health insurance when it is medically necessary.

Skill building can help us cope better when unusual or unfortunate life events occurred. Stress is often what drives people into feeling inadequate and vulnerable, over-worried, losing energy or getting sick, losing their daily functionality. However, it is not all bad and normal, because it could help us to gain a better perspective or sense of the new reality, and perhaps it leads to develop a new footing for adaptive and accommodating skills and new level of resilience and enriched coping skills. Professional help is becoming medically necessary when your health is in question.  Alternately, when a new challenge appeared to be overwhelming, threatening or untimely, it could immobilize our senses and caused us to get stuck in a traumatic situation. Help is available here.   When serious mental health threats are presenting themselves, it may require a interdisciplinary approach such as school, primary care,  health and human service providers,  state agencies to sort out and find effective ways to treat and cope with such problems and to rebuild your normal and sustainable health and quality of life.  This recovering process will go beyond a few months according to your overall conditions.