After an “emotional breakdown,” Selena Gomez is allegedly seeking therapy.

The 26-year-old “Wolves” singer was admitted to the hospital twice in recent weeks, both times for a low white blood cell count, which is a common side effect of kidney transplant patients.

Gomez had a panic episode during her second visit. “She’s had a tough few weeks,” a source tells PEOPLE, “and the panic attack in the hospital was the tipping point.”

“She realized she needed to seek additional help for her ongoing emotional issues. She’s surrounded by close family and has a lot of support. She’s doing better now and is seeking treatment on the East Coast.” She is reportedly receiving dialectical behavior therapy, which seeks to uncover and modify negative thought patterns, according to People.

Selena has been an outspoken champion for mental health, and early this year she enrolled in a program to manage anxiety and depression. She took a sabbatical from social media on Sept. 23 to “step back” and live her life “present to the moment.”

“As much as I am grateful for the voice that social media gives each of us, I am equally grateful to be able to step back and live my life present to the moment I have been given. Kindness and encouragement only for a bit! Just remember — negative comments can hurt anybody’s feelings. Obvi,” Gomez said.

Earlier this summer, she suggested that she could take a hiatus with a contemplative remark: “Trust me, my life isn’t always this filtered and flowery… We are all on our own journey.”

Due to her lupus, she needed a kidney transplant, which she disclosed on Instagram in September 2017. An actress and Gomez’s friend, Francia Raisa, donated her kidney.

During an interview with Today in October 2017, Gomez and Raisa, 30, discussed the procedure. Gomez told Savannah Guthrie, “My kidneys were just done. That was it, and I didn’t want to ask a single person in my life.”

“The thought of asking someone to do that was really difficult for me. She volunteered and did it. And let alone someone wanting to volunteer, it is incredibly difficult to find a match. The fact that she was a match, I mean that’s unbelievable. That’s not real,” Gomez continued.

Raisa was living in the same house as Gomez when she saw how frail her buddy had become.

“One day she came home and she was emotional. I hadn’t asked anything. I knew she hadn’t been feeling well,” the Grown-ish actress explained. “She couldn’t open a water bottle one day. She chucked it and she started crying. And I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ and that’s when she told me. And she goes, ‘I don’t know what to do. The list is seven to 10 years long.’”

“It just vomited out of me,” Raisa added, “and I was like, ‘Of course I’ll get tested.'”

Raisa noted that because they were in a “emergency situation,” she was able to finish her tests in one day, rather than the six months it typically takes.