Women's Issues

There are a number of transitions and initiations that can lead to overpowering feelings and moods that impair a woman’s ability to function.
Some women find themselves plunged into deep wells of utter loneliness, hopelessness and sadness around childbirth. Sometimes a woman may feel estranged from the baby to whom she has just given birth or feel that she is unwilling or unable to care for that child. Some women have to bear the deep grief that comes from losing a child or the complex feelings that accompany giving birth to a child with disabilities. Some women encounter the challenges of infertility.
The experience of her children leaving home can leave a woman feel bereft and without direction. So much of her energy may have gone into being the mother that she cannot find meaning in her new situation.
New relationships can awaken old conflicts or confront a woman with unexpected and overwhelming negative feelings.
Initiating a career can seem like an impossible task and can push up feelings of worthlessness or helplessness.
Our work together involves holding and accepting the complex feelings and emotions that can accompany initiations into motherhood, empty nesting, career launching and relationship. The therapeutic space is a safe, nonjudgmental, life - affirming container in which you can share your innermost thoughts and feelings. Through the therapeutic process you become more conscious of the conflict and also of the resources in yourself or your environment that you could not previously access. As this consciousness increases, new possibilities that are contained in your own process and that can lead to a way out of the impasses can begin to emerge.
Some women find themselves plunged into deep wells of utter loneliness, hopelessness and sadness around childbirth. Sometimes a woman may feel estranged from the baby to whom she has just given birth or feel that she is unwilling or unable to care for that child. Some women have to bear the deep grief that comes from losing a child or the complex feelings that accompany giving birth to a child with disabilities. Some women encounter the challenges of infertility.
The experience of her children leaving home can leave a woman feel bereft and without direction. So much of her energy may have gone into being the mother that she cannot find meaning in her new situation.
New relationships can awaken old conflicts or confront a woman with unexpected and overwhelming negative feelings.
Initiating a career can seem like an impossible task and can push up feelings of worthlessness or helplessness.
Our work together involves holding and accepting the complex feelings and emotions that can accompany initiations into motherhood, empty nesting, career launching and relationship. The therapeutic space is a safe, nonjudgmental, life - affirming container in which you can share your innermost thoughts and feelings. Through the therapeutic process you become more conscious of the conflict and also of the resources in yourself or your environment that you could not previously access. As this consciousness increases, new possibilities that are contained in your own process and that can lead to a way out of the impasses can begin to emerge.