This work is for women ready to go beneath the surface
Something has shifted. In your body, your mood, your sense of self, or all three at once. You're not looking for a quick fix or a checklist. You want to actually understand what's happening, and to feel supported by someone who takes the whole of you into consideration.
Below is an overview of what I work with and how. If something resonates, I'd invite you to reach out to book a consultation.
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The hormonal transition into and through menopause is one of the most significant, and most underserved passages in a woman's life. Mood changes, sleep disruption, brain fog, shifts in libido and identity, anxiety and depression, rage and tearfulness that seems to come from nowhere: these are real, and they deserve more than reassurance that it will pass.
In our work together, we approach perimenopause and menopause not just as a biological event but as a threshold. A place where the psyche often asks for as much attention as the body. Drawing on health psychology, IFS, somatic work, and depth psychology, we explore what this season is calling forward in you, not just what it's taking away.
Areas addressed
Mood & emotional shifts
Anxiety & depression
Overwhelm
Identity & self-concept
Brain fog & cognitive changes
Sleep disruption
Libido & body relationship
Loss of self & meaning
Rage & grief
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A diagnosis changes things. Not just practically, but existentially. Who you are, what you can count on, what the future holds. Whether you are navigating an autoimmune disorder, a cancer or other major diagnosis or are in recovery, or have a complex chronic condition that medicine hasn't fully explained, you are dealing with something that affects the whole of your life.
Health psychology sits at the center of my training and approach. We work with the emotional dimensions of illness, grief, fear, identity loss, fatigue, and the sometimes complicated relationship with your own body. Alongside building genuine psychological resilience. When appropriate, I collaborate with your healthcare team to support an integrated picture of your care.
Areas addressed
Autoimmune conditions
Cancer & other major diagnosis
Remission & recovery
Complex chronic conditions
Neurodivergent informed trauma
Identity & illness
Caregiver burnout
Fear & uncertainty
Body trust & relationship
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Anxiety in midlife often has roots that go deeper than circumstance. In the nervous system, in old patterns of protection, in a body that has been running on high alert for decades. We work with anxiety not just as a symptom to reduce, but as information worth understanding.
Drawing on polyvagal theory, somatic approaches, IFS, and mindfulness, we build your capacity to work with your nervous system rather than against it. Finding genuine calm rather than just coping.
Areas addressed
Chronic worry & rumination
Nervous system dysregulation
HSP & sensory sensitivity
Burnout & depletion
Panic & overwhelm
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Depression that arrives during perimenopause often looks different from what most people picture. A flatness that settles in without warning, loss of pleasure in things that used to matter, tearfulness that feels disproportionate, or a heaviness that doesn't lift even when life looks fine on the outside. What makes it distinct and frequently undertreated is its hormonal context: fluctuating estrogen and progesterone directly affect serotonin, dopamine, and GABA, the brain's primary mood-regulating systems. This is not weakness, and you are not imagining it.
Drawing on health psychology, IFS, somatic approaches, and mindfulness, we work with what you are experiencing. Honoring the biological reality while attending to the psychological, relational, and existential dimensions that hormonal shifts so often stir.Areas addressed
Hormonal mood shifts & emotional flatness
Loss of pleasure or motivation
Tearfulness & emotional unpredictability
Brain chemistry & hormonal connection
Identity & self-worth in transition
The grief of not feeling like yourself
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Midlife is rarely just one transition. It's often several arriving at once. Relationships evolving, careers feeling hollow, a sense that the life built so carefully no longer fits. Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes called this the death-rebirth cycle of a woman's life, and it is one of the most disorienting and potentially transformative passages we move through.
This work explores what is ending, what is asking to be born, and who you are becoming in the space between. We draw on depth psychology, narrative approaches, and mindfulness to help you find footing and meaning in the midst of change.
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Trauma-informed, neurodivergent-sensitive therapy for individuals who have experienced past trauma and are in a place of relative stability. This is depth-oriented, body-based work drawing on Somatic Experiencing and IFS. Exploring how past experiences shape present patterns, relationships, and the nervous system.
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This work is best suited for those who are not currently in crisis or active danger. If you are currently in active crisis, acute safety concerns, or requiring primary substance use treatments, I am happy to help you find the right level of care and connect you with appropriate resources. We can revisit working together when the time is right.
How I work
My approach is integrative and depth-oriented. Which means I work with all of you holistically. Both what is presenting as the problem and what lies underneath.
Each session draws on whichever combination of evidence based and ancestral wisdom frameworks best serves what you're bringing. Without a one-size-fits-all fixed protocol, there is careful, attuned attention to what your body, emotions, inner world, and the present moment are asking for.
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Health psychology explores the relationship between psychological, behavioral, and biological factors in physical health and illness. In our work together, this means taking seriously the ways that hormonal shifts, chronic conditions, stress, and nervous system states affect mood, cognition, identity, and quality of life, and vice versa.
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Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS understands the psyche as made up of distinct inner "parts". Protective voices, wounded younger selves, and a core Self that is inherently whole and wise. Rather than fighting or suppressing difficult thoughts and feelings, we get curious about what each part is carrying and what it needs.
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Developed by Dr. Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing works with the body's natural capacity to process and release trauma. Rather than retelling the story of what happened, we track the body's sensations and impulses. Allowing the nervous system to complete responses that were interrupted, restoring a felt sense of safety and aliveness.
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Developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, Polyvagal Theory describes how the autonomic nervous system governs our states of safety, mobilization, and shutdown. Often outside conscious awareness. Understanding your own nervous system patterns can be profoundly clarifying, and it forms the foundation for much of the somatic and relational work we do together.
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Narrative therapy recognizes that the stories we tell about ourselves, and the stories told about us, shape how we understand our lives. Together we examine which narratives are serving you and which ones have been written by pain, culture, or other people's expectations, creating space to author a story that more truthfully reflects who you are.
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Rooted in the integration of Buddhist psychology and Western therapeutic traditions, and at the heart of the training at Naropa University where I studied. Contemplative psychotherapy brings mindful awareness directly into the therapeutic relationship. Rather than observing experience from a distance, we learn to meet whatever arises - thought, emotion, sensation, memory, with open, nonjudgmental presence. The underlying belief is that the mind is fundamentally awake and whole; suffering arises not from brokenness but from disconnection from that natural clarity. This approach is particularly well suited to midlife transitions, where the invitation is often less about fixing something and more about coming home to yourself.
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ACT invites us to loosen the grip of unhelpful thoughts and stories rather than fighting or trying to eliminate them. Making room for the full range of human experience while clarifying what genuinely matters to you. The goal is to live more fully in alignment with your values.
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Rooted in the traditions of Jung, Estés, and contemplative psychology, depth work attends to what lives beneath the surface. Dreams, symbols, archetypes, the unlived life. Transpersonal psychology extends this further, welcoming spiritual experience, meaning, and the larger mystery of being human as legitimate and important dimensions of the healing process.
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Read Thresholds
Writings on the passages that matter most, perimenopause, midlife, chronic illness, and the deeper questions women carry. From the practice of Chrystal Nelthropp at Holistic Northwest.