The Cost of Living and the Weight of Being: Depth Therapy for Life Right Now

Explore how psychotherapy helps individuals and couples navigate the emotional impact of financial stress, uncertainty, and the hidden weight of modern life.

We’re living through a stretch of history where instability has become the backdrop of daily life. Financial strain, job precarity, climate anxiety, rising costs, global conflict—none of it is just theoretical. It’s showing up in our relationships, in our bodies, in our sleep patterns, and in the way we imagine (or avoid imagining) the future.

Whether you're a young adult just trying to get a foothold, a middle-aged person carrying both aging parents and growing children, or part of a couple navigating different reactions to the same stress—uncertainty has a way of pressing on our most vulnerable places.

In depth psychotherapy, we don’t rush past those places. We slow down and pay attention to what’s trying to speak through them.

feeling uncertain? you are not alone.

The Personal Toll of a Collective Crisis

For many people, the external pressure of “the cost of living” is intimately tied to the internal experience of the weight of being. The pressure to hold everything together can feel relentless. And when survival becomes the focus, there’s often little space left for reflection, repair, or even basic emotional rest.

This chronic state of tension—what psychoanalytic thinkers might describe as a loss of psychic spaciousness—can lead to symptoms that seem to come out of nowhere: emotional numbness, flashes of anger or panic, insomnia, dread, hopelessness, disconnection in relationships. Often, these symptoms are our mind and body’s way of saying, something is too much.

And still, so many people wonder if it’s “bad enough” to reach out for support.

Why Depth Psychotherapy Now?

The kind of therapy we offer goes beyond tips and tricks for productivity or mood management—though there’s nothing wrong with those. But when the external world is in disarray, and the internal world begins to echo that chaos, sometimes what we need most is a place where we don’t have to manage or perform.

Depth psychotherapy offers a different kind of space. One where we stay with the feelings that are often pushed aside. One where we listen not just to the story being told, but to the emotional undercurrents, contradictions, longings, and fears that don’t always have language yet.

It’s not quick-fix therapy. It’s therapy for people who want to understand the deeper meaning of their pain—not to pathologize it, but to relate to it differently. And maybe to be a little less alone with it.

Money, Therapy, and the Complexity of Care

Of course, it’s impossible to talk about therapy right now without naming the elephant in the room: therapy costs money. And for many people, that’s the hardest part of accessing it—especially during a time when basics like food, rent, and childcare feel barely manageable.

In my practice, I think seriously about this. I work with clinicians at different stages in their careers—including early-career psychologists and psychotherapists—who offer lower-fee options for those seeking high-quality care at a more sustainable rate. These are skilled, compassionate therapists who bring both clinical depth and fresh perspective, and who are part of a practice where ongoing consultation and support are built in.

It’s not a compromise—it’s a creative, ethical response to a hard reality.

Therapy as an Act of Resistance

Seeking therapy in this moment isn’t self-indulgent—it’s quietly radical. It says: My inner life matters, even when the world tells me to keep pushing through. It says: I don’t want to lose myself to survival mode. It says: Even now, I want to feel more alive, more connected, more whole.

If you’re feeling worn out, stretched thin, or emotionally distant from yourself and the people you love—know that you’re not alone. This is a hard time. And support exists.

Depth therapy doesn’t make the world less chaotic. But it can make the experience of being in it less isolating, more bearable, and sometimes, more meaningful.