Therapy for Women Navigating Perimenopause, Menopause, and Chronic Illness
In-person sessions in Manzanita Oregon, and telehealth sessions available throughout Oregon and Washington.
Support in the midst of change
The hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause, a chronic health diagnosis, or cancer treatment all ask you to change. Sleep, mood, memory, and energy shift; anxiety, depression, or grief may surface; and your sense of self can begin to feel unfamiliar. Night sweats that wake you affect your mood the next day. A diagnosis changes your relationships and how you imagine your future. The messages you absorbed about aging, productivity, and what a woman’s body should be shape how you meet all of it. You could feel lost, and confused and really tired of not feeling yourself.
I work from a bio-psycho-social-cultural understanding of women’s health, which means all of you is welcome, and every part of your experience helps shape your roadmap to care.
When the life you built no longer fits
Something often shifts beneath the surface during these years of change. The life you worked hard to build may start to feel like it no longer fits you, and deeper questions emerge. What do I actually want? What have I been carrying that was never mine? Who am I becoming as my body changes? Where is this rage coming from?
For many women, the physical changes of midlife, and for those with chronic illness, comes a real rite of passage that demands attention and understanding. Depth work and mindfulness makes room in yourself and in your day, to process and grieve what is ending, And to reclaim parts of yourself that were dormant, masked, or abandoned. So that you can be whole.
I work with women navigating perimenopause and menopause, cancer and treatment-induced menopause, autoimmune and chronic illness, mood and anxiety, grief, and the deeper questions of midlife.