Therapy for Women and Moms
I provide therapy for women and mothers navigating anxiety, stressors, relationship challenges, and life adjustments.
This includes support for managing emotional overwhelm, relationship and family dynamics, caregiving stress, identify and self-discovery work, and navigating the mental load and daily stressors that often accompanies motherhood, parenting, and major life changes.
Therapy is offered via virtual counseling/telehealth for clients located in Illinois, Florida, and Ohio.
When Therapy May Be Helpful
Women and mothers often seek therapy during periods of change or when anxiety and stress levels feel unmanageable.
As a licensed therapist, it's incredibly rewarding to help women and moms discover (or rediscover) themselves, find workable approaches to life, better understand their relationships, and navigate life's challenging moments.
Here are common reasons why women and moms reach out to me for counseling:
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Ongoing anxiety or excessive worry, which impacts functioning and quality of life
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Feeling emotionally depleted or overwhelmed by new or ongoing stressors
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Difficulty adjusting to motherhood or another new life phase
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Navigating challenging relationship or family dynamics
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Difficulty balancing competing demands in all areas of life
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Needing to make tough life decisions/changes or set self-care boundaries
What Therapy Will Look Like
​Therapy is a collaborative, evidence-based process focused on understanding your experiences and developing sustainable coping strategies.
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Together, we'll explore what matters most to you (your values), build skills so life feels more workable for you, and work towards taking actions that are in alignment with your values, even in the face of anxiety, stress, and challenges.
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Here are examples of what we might work on during therapy:
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Identifying and processing patterns and stressors contributing to stress or anxiety
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Developing anxiety management skills and a different relationship with anxiety
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Accepting and addressing difficult emotions without avoiding or fighting them
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Building emotional regulation, grounding, mindfulness, and stress-management skills
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Developing boundaries, self-care approaches, and self-compassion skills
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Building resiliency while making difficult decisions and navigating life adjustments
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Breaking free from self-limiting stories/narratives about self and others
Why Work with Me
As a woman and as a mom, I'm traveling alongside you on this path. Navigating stress and anxiety when life throws curveballs and tough decisions my way. Trying to nurture my relationships while also taking care of myself. Aiming for balance as I pursue my career goals while also focusing on my family. Therefore, from the start of our work together, you'll feel understood. Your very real emotions and thoughts will be understood and validated.
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As a therapist with more than 20 years of clinical experience and a graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, I understand how emotions, life experiences, and lifestyle adjustments impact entire family systems. Therefore, even when working individually with you, I am able to focus not only on your individual therapeutic needs, but also the needs of the entire family system.​
I use a variety of evidence-based approaches to help you build skills that allow you to find a balance between overwhelm and a meaningful quality of life:
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) - Focuses on increasing psychological flexibility to allow people to act in accordance with their values, even during stressful and challenging moments in life.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - Focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thoughts, feelings and actions, and can include exposure therapy work to decrease intensity of anxiety and fears.
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Systems/Family Systems Theory - Focuses on problem-solving through the lens of relationships, dynamics and patterns that exist within families.​
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I look forward to working together!
Ready for the support? Let's connect!
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