Almost anything. Common presenting concerns for individual therapy and for physicians may include but are not limited to:
Acculturation stress
ADHD
Adjustment difficulty
Alcohol use
Anger management
Anxiety
Assertiveness
Bereavement / Grief
Boundary setting
Burnout
Career decision-making
Caregiver strain
Communication skills
Compassion fatigue
Conflict management
Coping skills
Cultural stress
Death anxiety
Decision-making
Depression
Divorce / dissolution
Eating concerns (emotional eating, binge eating, restrictive habits)
Emotional wellness
Executive function
Existential concerns
Family conflict
Financial strain
Gender issues
Health concerns
Homesickness
Identity concerns
Imposter syndrome
Impulse control
Infertility
Intimate partner violence
Leadership
Life transitions
Loneliness
Managing difficult patients
Medically unexplained illness
Mindfulness
Mood changes
Moral injury
Obsessive thoughts or tendencies
Panic attacks
Parenting
Patient satisfaction
People-pleasing behavior
Perfectionism
Performance anxiety
Performance enhancement
Phobias
Post-partum depression
Pressure
Psychological safety
Racism or prejudices
Relationship conflict
Relaxation techniques
Religious or spiritual concerns
Role strain
Self-esteem and self-efficacy
Self-harm
Sex addiction
Sexual identity
Sexual functioning
Stress
Study skills
Substance use
Suicidal ideation or thoughts of death
Smoking cessation
Test anxiety
Time management
Trauma / Abuse
Weight loss
Work-life balance
Workplace stress