Young professionals
People in the first decade of a career, doing well by every external measure, and quietly unsure whether any of it is going in the right direction.
Meet the team
Christy Hill, AMFT, APCC
Associate Therapist, working with young professionals and high-achieving adults on anxiety, self-esteem, and the questions about identity and career underneath them. She sees couples, too. In Laguna Beach, on the sand, or by video anywhere in California.
Christy Hill had two careers before this one, in television production and in consumer sales analysis, which means she has spent a lot of time around ambitious people and is not especially impressed by a job title. She sees clients under Kay Wenger's supervision.
That history shows up in the work. She is direct, and she does not treat drive as a symptom to be managed. Plenty of people arrive half-expecting to be told they should want less. What usually turns out to be true is more interesting than that: they want the right things, and somewhere along the way the wanting stopped being theirs.
How she works
Doing well and feeling well are not the same project.
Christy works with people who look, from the outside, like they have it handled. The promotion arrived. The plan worked. And underneath it there is an anxiety that does not match the evidence, or a flatness where the satisfaction was supposed to be.
She is warm and fairly blunt, a combination that suits people who have had enough of being handled carefully. Her starting question is not what is wrong with you. It is closer to: whose idea was this life, and which parts of it do you actually want to keep?
She also works with couples, especially two busy people whose careers have quietly started running the relationship. The question is the same one, asked of two lives at once.
Christy HillAMFT #139486, APCC #13876Associate TherapistSupervised by Kay Wenger, LMFT #38183, LPCC #1450
Her group work
Divorce Recovery Support Group
Christy leads a six-week support group for people coming through the end of a marriage. Divorce is one of those experiences that everyone has an opinion about and almost nobody wants to hear about twice. A group solves that particular problem: the other people in the room are not tired of the subject, because they are in it too.
Ask about the groupWhat she works with
Where Christy tends to help most
Weighted toward adults in the middle of building something, and adults working out whether they still want what they built.
- Anxiety The high-functioning kind, where nothing is visibly falling apart and the cost is entirely internal. Often it has been running so long it stopped registering as unusual.
- Depression Including the version that arrives after a success rather than a failure, which is more common than people expect and considerably harder to admit to.
- Self-esteem The gap between what you have achieved and what you believe about yourself, which achievement turns out to be surprisingly bad at closing.
- Identity and career Who you are when the role is taken away, and what to do when the thing you trained for stops fitting the person you became while doing it.
- Life transitions Promotions, moves, endings, and the strange grief that can follow a change you chose and still wanted.
- Divorce and separation Both the individual work and the six-week recovery group, for people trying to work out who they are on the other side of it.
Who she sees
The people she tends to work with
High-achieving adults
Further along, more established, and running into the discovery that the next achievement does not resolve the question the last one did not resolve either.
People after a divorce
Individually, and in the six-week recovery group. The stretch where the practical arrangements are settled and the identity questions are only just starting.
When the career you built stops fitting
There is a particular conversation that happens a lot in Christy's room, and it usually starts with an apology. The person is doing well. They know they are doing well. They have the job, or the income, or the title they were working toward, and they feel faintly ridiculous sitting in a therapist's office talking about it.
But a life is not a spreadsheet, and things that look good on paper can be quietly the wrong shape. Sometimes the ambition was inherited rather than chosen. Sometimes the work that used to feel like yours became a role you perform. And sometimes you just grew, and the plan did not grow with you, which is nobody's failure and still has to be dealt with.
Christy came to therapy after two other careers, in television production and in consumer sales analysis, so she has been on the inside of ambitious industries. She is not going to tell you to want less. The more useful question is which parts of what you want are actually yours.
Where to go next
More about the practice
Beach Therapy
Christy offers sessions on the coastline, walking side by side instead of sitting face to face. It suits people who think better while moving.
Beach TherapyLife transitions
If the thing that brought you here is a change rather than a diagnosis, this is the page that speaks to it.
Life transitionsThe rest of the team
Every therapist here works under Kay's supervision, and the free call exists partly to make sure you land with the right one.
Meet the teamThink Christy might be the right fit?
The free 15 to 20 minute call is where we sort that out. You can ask for her by name, or describe what's going on and let us suggest who fits best. No pressure either way.
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