Identifying life transitions: Are you…

• Thinking about, preparing for, or recently made a big shift in your life — with work, your relationship, your family unit, or perhaps where you live?
• Experiencing significant change that is making you feel uncertain about the future?
• Having difficulty adjusting to an impending or recent change, leading to intense feelings, such as confusion, loss of control, guilt or fear?  

About life transitions

• Change is healthy and inevitable in life, yet it can still be a difficult adjustment
• Change is often accompanied with a feeling of loss, and subsequently, grief 
• Even positive life changes can leave us feeling stressed and confused
• Some common challenging life transition include, but are not limited to: career change or job loss; relationship changes; school or post-secondary changes; moving to a new place; illness or disability; caregiving; and the arrival of a baby or child in your life or becoming an empty next

Treatment for life transitions

• Therapy can help with providing the emotional support in order to develop new and healthy routines to help you adjust to your new normal
• Therapy can assist with helping you learn about your specific triggers when it comes to the change you are experiencing, and develop coping strategies 
• Stress management tools can also be built and developed to help you build resilience —  building. a stronger version of yourself