Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Specialized care for women

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Difficult transitions, or times when we aren’t feeling satisfied in life, can leave us feeling stuck and unhappy.

Scroll below to learn about some of the specialized areas I focus on in my practice.

Support for your Reproductive Journey

Therapy for fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood

The journey of trying to get pregnant, being pregnant, and transitioning to motherhood is often filled with mixed emotions and anxiety. Motherhood has a way of bringing up our past trauma, childhood wounds, and unresolved pain—making it difficult to regulate these emotions and show up the way you want for your family. Maybe you aren't feeling like yourself. Maybe the coping tools that used to work are no longer serving you. Or maybe your support system isn't as robust as you'd like it. Either way, I am here to help support YOU in this important life transition. 

Therapy can help with:

  • Decisions to start or expand your family

  • Fertility challenges

  • Establishing healthy pregnancy habits

  • Anxiety & depression during pregnancy or postpartum

  • Birth trauma

  • Pregnancy or infant loss

  • Transitioning to parenthood "identity"

  • General parenting stress

  • Overcoming perfectionism in motherhood

  • Raising child with "extra needs"

Support for Women’s Wellness

It’s not about mental illness, it’s about mental wellness

Difficult life transitions, or times when we aren't feeling satisfied in a career or relationship, can lead to sometimes painful and uncomfortable emotions and behaviors. These are all great opportunities to spend some time focusing on yourself and figuring out what is holding you back. I know the decision to come to counseling can sometimes feel overwhelming, but it is essential that we all take the time to work on ourselves. It is not a luxury, but a necessity. I’m here to help!

Therapy can help with:

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Grief and Loss

  • Identity Development

  • Career Planning

  • Perfectionist Tendencies (Type "A")

  • Relationship Struggles

  • Balance of Career & Motherhood​ ​

Supporting Women through Perimenopause

Therapy for Perimenopause & Menopause

Similar to postpartum, perimenopause is a timeframe and not a “condition.” It is the time when a woman’s body begins to change and hormone levels fluctuate. Whereas menopause is a single day that signifies the end of her fertility journey, a woman may be in perimenopause as early as 10 years before that date. Which means, symptoms may start as early as mid-30’s. When you think of perimenopause, you may think of the classic physical symptoms: hot flashes, night sweats, and irregular periods. That can be true. But many women also experience bothersome physical symptoms like urinary issues, weight gain, heart palpitations, and sexual changes (just to list a few). They may also struggle with an increase or return of otherwise managed anxiety or mood symptoms, such as sleep disturbances, anger/irritability, loss of pleasure and motivation, brain fog, and intimacy challenges. The good new is that therapy can be a helpful resource for this timeframe.

Important ways that therapy can help support you through perimenopause into menopause:

  • Validation and psychoeducation around the biological, psychological, social and sexual changes your body is going through

  • Learn resources to help identify, track and monitor your own distressing symptoms to share with your healthcare provider

  • Support for improved communications and boundaries necessary to advocate for your changing needs (with care providers, intimate partners and family)

  • Learn evidence-based interventions designed to target and treat your primary symptoms (i.e. irritable mood, panic attacks, emotional dysregulation, sleep issues, relationship challenges, grief, etc.)

Brainspotting for Trauma

Brainspotting is a gentle, yet powerful therapy that helps lessen and resolve difficult symptoms and experiences. It uses the mind/ body connection to allow deeper access to your subcortical brain - where words are harder to reach; where survival mode, pain and trauma tend to get stuck.

“I am specially trained and excited to offer this really amazing tool to my clients’ healing journeys as necessary. Brainspotting is effective for a wide variety of emotional and physical symptoms, and is particularly effective with trauma-based situations, helping to identify and heal underlying trauma that contributes to anxiety, depression and other behavioral challenges.”

To be sure we are a good fit, I offer free 15-minute phone consultations