Specialized Care for Women’s Mental Health
Living as a woman comes with its own particular pressures, from body image and self-esteem to the identity shifts that arrive with career changes, motherhood, caregiving, and the reorganizations of midlife, alongside the quiet expectation that you will hold everything together for everyone else without visible effort. I work with clients on these issues directly, helping them build a sense of self that does not depend on performing competence for the people around them, and grounding that work in an understanding of how the nervous system responds to the specific and sustained demands placed on women.
Signs You May Need Support
You are the person everyone relies on, and you have noticed that you do not have an equivalent person.
You are barely functioning, which is the word you use when someone asks how you are
Your anxiety looks like productivity from the outside, so it goes largely unquestioned and entirely unrewarded.
You feel resentment, usually toward people you love.
You say yes reflexively and then spend the following days managing the consequences of a commitment you never wanted.
Something has shifted, whether that is a new role, a new baby, a diagnosis, a loss, or a decade ending, and you do not recognize the person you have become in it.
You are irritable in a way that feels disproportionate, and you have started to worry about who you are becoming with your partner or your children.
You have a rich internal life and almost no time in which to have it.
Our Approach to Women's Mental Health
A relational and attachment-informed lens, which means we look at how you learned to be responsible for other people's comfort and what it would take to unlearn some of it.
Cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based work targeting perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the specific thoughts that keep you overextended.
The SHORE Method, our nervous system regulation framework, so you have something concrete to use in the moment rather than only insight to use afterward.
Boundary and values work that starts with figuring out what you actually want, which is often the harder half of the problem.
Psychoeducation about hormonal and neurological change across the lifespan, including the cycle, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause.
Identity work through transitions, including career shifts, matrescence, caregiving, divorce, and grief.
Walk and talk sessions available locally, for the clients who think better while moving and outdoors.
Assessment for underlying ADHD or OCD, which are both commonly missed in women and frequently sitting underneath what has been labeled anxiety or burnout.