Young Adult Therapy in Santa Rosa
Helping young adults learn to live in an uncertain world with confidence, clarity, and self-esteem.
You feel anxious, unsure what to do next, and tired of second-guessing yourself
You feel like you should have it figured out by now, and you don’t.
You worry so much about making a mistake that you don’t even take the first step.
All the decisions you have to make keep you frozen in fear, what if you make the wrong choice?
You worry constantly about what others think of you.
You’ve spent so much time trying to make sure you don’t offend, bother, or hurt other people, that you forgot about your own needs. It feels like walking on eggshells in social situations.
You know you put up with being treated poorly by others, but setting boundaries, saying “no”, or standing up for yourself seems impossible.
Life just feels like a lot right now.
You sometimes do way too much to the point of mental and physical exhaustion.
Sometimes you try distracting yourself from your ruminating thoughts about the bad stuff that happened to you in your past and procrastinating everything you know you need to get done.
What if life wasn’t such a struggle anymore? What if you could learn to live your life in a way that you felt really good about?
Therapist for young adults in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, and Online in CA.
I’m Angela Sitka, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I help young adults learn to live in an uncertain world with confidence, clarity, and self-esteem.
I work with young adults who may be struggling with anxiety, overthinking, relationship stress, feeling stuck, or the pressure to have their lives figured out.
My approach (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) helps young adults understand their patterns while developing new ways of responding to the challenges of adulthood.
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In ACT therapy with Angela, you learn:
I teach “defusion skills” to notice your thoughts without them taking over.
Be fully in the present moment (without constant overthinking) so you can enjoy life again.
Get back to the things you love.
We help develop your self-esteem through “committed action.”
It is doing things that are important to you without waiting to feel a certain way before doing them.
Build real, lasting confidence to pursue your dreams and goals, even if procrastination, anxiety, and self-doubt has held you back before.
We learn and practice relational skills.
Learn the skills needed to build healthy relationships. Navigate dating, making friends, dealing with a breakup or a relationship anxiety.
Maybe you haven’t had great role models or examples of a “healthy relationship,” so I help create the framework, so you know what works.
We create your own “personal bill of rights".
Figure out who you are, your identity, and what do you need to do to take care of yourself through guided values explorations.
This includes setting boundaries with family and learning to live independently.
About Angela
Angela Sitka, LMFT, licensed psychotherapist with practice based in Santa Rosa, CA
Angela Sitka is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #97770) in Santa Rosa, California.
As a licensed therapist since 2017, her background has given her extensive experience helping young people navigate the transition into adulthood, including relationships, emotional regulation, self-confidence, identity, independence, and uncertainty about what they want from their lives.
Angela has over a decade of experience providing therapy to adolescents and young adults in Sonoma County. Before entering private practice, she worked in Kaiser Permanente’s Child and Family Psychiatry department, as well as local schools providing counseling to high school students, providing crisis mental health services, and working with adolescents in an intensive outpatient eating disorder program.
Angela completed honors thesis research on how “latchkey” status and increased unsupervised self-care relate to the development of traits and behaviors during adolescence, research that eventually led to a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Adolescence and the distinction of summa cum laude from University of California, Davis.
She writes and collaborates in popular media about various relational topics including setting boundaries, obsessive thinking, emotional intelligence, and relationship attachment styles in publications such as: TIME, HuffPost, SELF, PsychCentral, AskMen, and Cosmopolitan.
Check out my recent blog:
As a therapist for young adults, I have found there are some unique factors that make this population so responsive to therapy! Behind the closed door of my therapy office, here is why therapy for young adults is so effective in improving mental health.