What's My Approach to Therapy?
I have a passion for supporting women in midlife who may be also navigating the challenges of perimenopause and menopause. You may be seeking support for emotional well-being, physical symptoms, relationship changes, and life transitions. I provide a safe and supportive space to navigate your journey, while making room for your resilience, grief, anger and joy. Stress, anxiety, mood swings and burnout can also be common experiences. Building self-love, discussing identity and processing life transitions are some examples of work we may do together.
Together, we work to better understand the emotional journey the significant life changes experienced in midlife create. My approach is collaborative and focused in a relational style. We make space for the impacts of this transitional life stage, while attending to your body and mind.
Asking for help is a vulnerable first step that shows great strength. You do not have to navigate the challenges you face in life alone; you deserve support. I offer a free 20 minute phone consultation if you have any questions and look forward to hearing from you.
My Practice & Services
I see clients via Telehealth.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
Midlife, PerimenopauseMenopause
Midlife is a time of transition ripe with emotion. New life challenges may be coming to the forefront such as physical changes, primary relationship changes, caring for aging parents all while reckoning with entering into a new stage of life. Together, we will work to navigate this transition, as well as identify supports that may be helpful along the way.
Life Transitions
Life transitions are tricky. They test our ability to dwell in the unknown. The unknown is scary. These major transitions can be wanted or unwanted, and therefore accompanied by mixed emotions of joy, excitement, anxiety and grief. Together we will work through the concurrent feelings to identify your resiliency and strengths to help you on your journey through your current period of uncertainty to uncover the life you want.
Self-Love
Learning how to love ourselves can be a difficult task, even in an era that popularizes the concepts of self-care and self-love. Self-love is more than a bath bomb and a good tub soak, though that's not a bad place to start. Often self-esteem issues root back to a defensive coping mechanism adopted early in life for protection, but ultimately harms us and keep us from living a full life. We will work together to build your confidence and make it safe to be vulnerable and love yourself.
How Psychotherapy Can Help
The pace and style of our work is tailored to you uniquely, and I consider you to be the expert on yourself. Psychotherapy helps you tap into your resiliency and self-knowledge by offering a relationship built on trust, empathy and safety. This safety makes it possible for you to experience vulnerability and a wide range of emotions from joy to pain. By processing your emotions you are able to identify your needs and together we work to determine how to best meet them. Sledging through the muck isn't always easy, and sometimes you feel worse before you get better. However, once you get to the other side you can take pride in your resiliency, and with greater self-understanding look upon yourself with compassion and love.
Why Going to Therapy Does Not Mean You are Weak or Flawed
Therapy can be hard. It is difficult to work through the hard feelings and the aspects of yourself that you would prefer to keep hidden. It is difficult to put your trust in a stranger and make yourself vulnerable. Therapy is not for the meek or the weak. Asking for help is a sign of strength, as is vulnerability. It is also the first step on your journey to claiming what you want for yourself.
