Therapy for Women | Guilford, CT & Online

Therapy for women who are holding it all together, and quietly coming apart.

Anxiety, depression, and the transitions nobody prepares you for.

Maybe you've said one of these out loud (or maybe only to yourself).

"I'm not myself. I've lost myself, and I want to find me again."
"I'm seriously struggling. I'm missing out on my life, on my kids' lives, because of this constant stress"
"I just feel so hopeless. I'm sad all the time, and I want it to stop."
"Is this what my life is now?"

These are the things women say when they first sit down with me. If one of them could have come from you, you're in the right place. You're not broken, and you're not being dramatic. You’ve been carrying too much, for too long, and somewhere underneath it all is a woman who deserves to be found.

The kind that that runs the show: the constant worry, the racing thoughts at night, feeling afraid to say yes to new experiences.
It’s the type that has settled in: the sadness you can't explain, the hopelessness, the days that all look the same, the feeling that the color drained out of your life.
The ones our culture barely acknowledges, let alone supports, Here are some that I work with:
- Becoming a mother, and the ways your identity, your career, and your sense of self get rearranged without your permission
- The pressure to do it all and make it look easy
- Divorce at any age, including the gray divorce nobody saw coming
- Hard relationships with adult children, including the particular grief and shame of parental alienation
- The empty nest, and the strange quiet that follows
- Menopause and everything it stirs up in body, mind, and identity
- Retirement, and the question of who you are when the “doing” stops
- Looking back on your life and wanting to make peace with the story so far
You don't need to fit neatly into one of these. Most women arrive with many of these at once, tangled together. That's normal, and absolutely workable.

What We Might Work On

If you're 40, 50, 60 or older, you are not an afterthought here.

So many women tell me how hard it is to find a therapist who truly understands this stretch of life. Someone who won't treat menopause like a footnote, or act like reinvention is only for the young. As a Certified Midlife & Aging Specialist, and as a woman who has lived a few reinventions of her own, I consider this stage of life the most interesting and underserved territory in therapy.

There is so much life here. I’m here to help you live it on your own terms.

How I work

My approach is feminist at its foundation. In practice, that means: we take seriously the pressures and expectations placed on you as a woman, we honor your anger as much as your joy, and we treat your wants and needs as legitimate. Many of my clients spent decades being told, directly or not, that their feelings were too much. Here, nothing is too much.

Depending on what you need, our work might draw on approaches such as:

Parts work (IFS)
Depth and shadow work
Schema therapy
Ecotherapy

And, if those names don't mean anything to you, don’t worry. You don't need to arrive knowing what kind of therapy you need. We will figure that out together.

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Women who do this work with me tell me they:

Experience stress without being totally flattened by it
Have better, more honest relationships
Feel more confident, and more like themselves
Find their voice again, and actually use it
Make choices based on what they want, sometimes for the first time in decades
Discover new meaning and purpose in exactly the chapter of life they thought was the problem

Not overnight, and not by magic. But it happens (and it can happen for you too).

Frequently Asked Questions

My practice is centered on individual therapy for women. I do see a small number of LGBTQ+ and non-traditional couples (poly, ENM, kink), so if that's you, reach out and let's talk.
Not at all. Nature therapy is available to you, but plenty of my clients do all their work in my office or online. (Though fair warning: the office comes with plants, birdsong, cedar scents and the occasional visit from one of my curious cats . Nature is here either way.)
My practice is generally focused on adults ages 18 and up but I can also work with older adolescent girls who are interested in my approach and ready for therapy.
I accept CT Husky and Magellan/Yale Health, with more options in the works. I can also provide support for out-of-network reimbursement. Ask me during our consultation and we'll sort out what's possible for you.