Therapy for Adults in Midlife and Beyond Seattle and Online WA

Midlife and later life come with unique challenges — and often, unique opportunities for growth. Whether you're navigating a major transition, facing shifts in health or identity, or longing for deeper connection in your relationships, therapy can offer clarity, healing, and direction.

At Clarity Counseling Seattle, part of our work is with individuals and couples in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond who are seeking meaningful support during this phase of life. Several of our older and more experienced therapists specialize in helping adults move through these transitions with warmth, skill, and compassion. All services are available both in person in Seattle and through secure online therapy across Washington.

Common issues in midlife and later adulthood

Whether you're exploring these topics individually or with a partner, you might be facing:

• Sexual changes related to aging, menopause, or desire discrepancy
• Midlife crisis or identity shifts as roles change
• Stress related to retirement, relocation, or the empty nest syndrome
• Caring for aging parents or managing caregiver burnout
• Grief, partner loss, or anticipatory concerns about aging and death
• Loneliness or social isolation, even in long-standing relationships
• Shifts in physical health, energy, or daily functioning
• Ongoing conflict or distance in multigenerational families
• Rebalancing long-term partnerships after decades together
• Reevaluating boundaries and roles with adult children

This stage of life often brings both loss and liberation. Therapy offers a place to reflect, re-center, and move forward with purpose.

Benefits of therapy for midlife and beyond

While facing midlife and later life transitions can bring unique challenges, therapy offers a powerful path to renewed well-being and fulfillment. Our work with adults in this phase of life is designed to help you not just cope, but thrive.

Here are some of the ways therapy can support you:

• Gain Clarity and Direction: Therapy provides a dedicated space to reflect on your values, identify what truly matters to you, and set a course for a more fulfilling future.
• Strengthen Relationships: Learn effective communication skills, resolve long-standing conflicts, and foster deeper intimacy with your partner, family, and friends. This includes improving midlife relationship problems and fostering couples connection.
• Build Resilience and Coping Skills: Develop healthy strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and depression, equipping you to navigate life's challenges with greater ease and confidence.
• Process Grief and Loss: Receive compassionate support to move through the complexities of grief, partner loss, or anticipatory concerns about aging. Learn to honor memories while rebuilding your life with peace.
• Rediscover Purpose and Identity: Explore who you are outside of traditional roles, reignite passions, and embrace new possibilities for personal growth and a renewed sense of purpose after 50.
• Improve Overall Well-being: Experience greater peace, contentment, and a renewed sense of self, leading to a more vibrant and satisfying life as you age.

Individual therapy for adults age 45 and beyond

We support individuals navigating life transitions, emotional challenges, or identity shifts in midlife and beyond. Whether you're processing grief, rethinking your path, or adjusting to changes in health or family dynamics, we’re here to help you feel grounded and empowered.

Individual midlife therapy can support you in:

• Clarifying values and rediscovering your purpose
• Working through anxiety in midlife, depression in older adults, or emotional overwhelm
• Healing relationship patterns or attachment wounds
• Adjusting to aging, retirement, or health changes
• Building confidence around sexuality, dating, or starting over in midlife

It's never too late to gain insight, learn new tools, or make changes that bring you more peace and satisfaction.

Couples therapy in midlife and later years

Many couples reach out in midlife or beyond when long-standing patterns feel harder to shift, or when life transitions bring new tension or disconnection. Whether you're reconnecting after raising kids, navigating health challenges, or wondering what comes next together, couples therapy can help you move forward as a team.

We work with couples facing:

• Emotional or sexual disconnection
• Resentment built up over years or decades
• Intimacy concerns or mismatched needs as bodies and desires change
• Retirement adjustments and changing daily rhythms
• Conflicts around caregiving, finances, or shifting roles

Our therapists use evidence-based approaches like the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems for Couples (IFIO), and the Developmental Model to help couples rediscover connection, build empathy, and communicate more effectively.

Therapy for this stage of life — in person or online

Whether you're in Seattle or anywhere in Washington State, we offer in-person and online therapy for adults in midlife and beyond. You don’t need to be in crisis to reach out; many clients come to us simply wanting to feel more grounded, more connected, and more themselves.

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