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[quote=Anonymous]20-year-old college student is home this weekend from school out of state.

We both agree she could benefit from speaking with a therapist. Issues are lack of ability to focus, feelings of overwhelm; spacing out in class; and difficulty making decisions and planning. This is very sudden - usually she's got fantastic executive functioning skills.

About three weeks ago she had a difficult interaction/altercation with a housemate/friend that may have brought up some past trauma that she never got any help or therapy for...My uneducated guess (just Momma gut sense) is that she is experiencing a delayed reaction as a result of what happened.

She's also living on her own, off campus, cooking meals and shopping; paying for utilities and all of that for the first time. Very busy social life, work, clubs. I think she's just feeling overwhelmed but she does seem very negative and there could be some depression as well; could be seasonal affective disorder?

So I want to find her a therapist but how do we start? Her college has a mental health center but they are universally described as abyssmal and they turn away anyone who isn't actively suicidal so not there. Does she need to find someone licensed to practice in the state her college is in? Is on-line therapy decent?  Should I look for someone who can prescribe medication? Can you recommend someone on line or a place I can look to find referrals?[/quote]

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