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Services

Where I can genuinely help

These are the problems first-gen students and class-straddlers actually bring in. We do not do general therapy — we address the cost of moving between worlds.

01

First-Generation College Students

The first in the family to sit in that classroom. Belonging, the hidden curriculum, money, and the pressure to make the whole thing worth it.

Focus Areas

  • Belonging and isolation
  • Hidden curriculum
  • Family and money pressure
  • Academic stress

02

Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Life

You left, and you cannot go all the way back. Therapy and coaching for straddlers raised in working-class homes who now live in professional rooms.

Focus Areas

  • Limbo identity
  • Loyalty versus mobility
  • Not at home in either world
  • Success that costs belonging

03

Impostor Syndrome & Belonging

You earned the seat and still wait to be found out. The exhaustion of passing and the overwork that is doing a job confidence should do.

Focus Areas

  • Feeling like a fraud
  • Code-switching fatigue
  • Waiting to be found out
  • Self-worth versus credentials

04

Family, Loyalty & Class

Do not get above your raising. Guilt about leaving, being the translator, and holidays that feel like two different countries.

Focus Areas

  • Guilt about leaving
  • Family pressure and scripts
  • Being the family resource
  • Home that no longer fits

05

Work, Code-Switching & Identity

Office politics nobody taught you, direct talk that lands wrong, and the burnout that comes from performing a class all day.

Focus Areas

  • Workplace culture shock
  • Code-switching at work
  • Career strain
  • Burnout from passing

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Coaching Nationwide

Class-aware coaching for first-gen strain, straddler identity, work, and belonging when you want practical forward motion without a clinical frame.

Focus Areas

  • First-gen and class mobility
  • Career and belonging
  • Code-switching fatigue
  • Available by video nationwide

07

Anxiety, Depression & the Cost of Making It

The anxiety that looks like overwork. The crash after the goal is hit. Sleep, drinking, and the mood that does not match the life you were supposed to be grateful for.

Focus Areas

  • Anxiety and panic
  • Depression after arrival
  • Sleep and stress
  • Substance as off-switch

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Couples & Crossing Class

Two people, two class cultures, one household. Money scripts, whose family rules run the house, in-laws who do not get it, and the fights that are really about belonging.

Focus Areas

  • Class-different couples
  • Money scripts
  • In-laws and family systems
  • Whose rules run the house

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Also works with

General practice areas

Beyond the specific first-gen focus, I work with these common clinical concerns through the same class-aware lens.

01Anger and irritability
02Anxiety and panic
03Depression
04Graduate and professional school stress
05Grief and loss
06Identity and belonging
07Substance use
08Trauma and PTSD

Next step

Not sure which of these fits?

That is a normal place to start. Send a short note or call the practice and we will figure out whether I am the right clinician for the problem — or point you to someone who is.

David Glick sees therapy clients at Triad Psych, PC offices in Georgia and by telehealth in Georgia and North Carolina. Coaching runs nationwide by video.