Women’s Experiences
Women often experience environmental, psychological, and biological challenges related to gender that can have a significant impact on their mental health and well-being.
Women's unique experiences may lead them at some point in their lives, to face one or more of these emotional and physical challenges:
- Anxiety and/or panic attacks
- Low self-worth (and how this plays out in the dynamics of your interpersonal relationships)
- Depression
- Mood fluctuations or irritability in response to interpersonal, environmental and hormonal factors
- Worry about pregnancy, birth and parenthood
- Postpartum depression
- Emotional recovery from miscarriage or ending a pregnancy
- PTSD
- Body image and eating issues
- Self-injury
- Fears and avoidance of gynecological exams and procedures
- Negative beliefs about aging and body changes
- Difficulties adjusting to marriage, parenthood, divorce, or the death of spouse or partner
- Burnout due to inadequate self-time and self-care
How can therapy help with these challenges?
All too often, women having these experiences are dismissed or ignored - even by the women themselves...until it threatens to overwhelm their ability to cope. Having a safe space and time that's just for you, to make sense of and get help for what you're going through, is essential. Even just having words for what you're dealing with is powerful and healing.
I will take your concerns seriously and listen carefully. Together we'll discover what helps you feel and function better - that might be learning to better articulate and assert your needs and wants, or techniques to calm your mind and body, or working to rewrite the beliefs and stories that have become unhelpful or hurtful to you over time.