One of the most common things I hear from new clients is some version of "I probably should have come a long time ago." Almost nobody walks into a psychologist's office too early. Most people arrive after months, sometimes years, of telling themselves that what they are going through is not serious enough, that other people have it worse, or that they should be able to handle it on their own. So the big question is, how do you actually know when it is time?

An unexpected outcome of pandemic life (at least for me) has been a blurring of days. Doing everything from home has blurred the lines of...