You thought pregnancy would feel magical. Or that once your baby arrived, the worry would settle. Instead, your mind is running at full speed — replaying worst-case scenarios, catastrophizing over things you can't control, and lying awake at 3am even when the baby is sleeping. Maybe you've had thoughts that scared you — thoughts that feel so foreign you're afraid to say them out loud. You smile through the exhaustion because you don't want anyone to think you're not grateful. But underneath it all, you're drowning.

Perinatal anxiety is one of the most underdiagnosed experiences in women's mental health — and it's not your fault, and it's not permanent.

Together we'll use CBT and somatic techniques to interrupt the anxiety cycle — identifying the thought patterns driving your fear, and building practical tools to regulate your nervous system in real time. You'll learn to quiet the noise without having to pretend it isn't there.

People don't know what to say — so they say the wrong things. "At least it was early." "You can try again." "Everything happens for a reason." And so you end up holding your grief alone, because it's easier than watching other people be uncomfortable with it. The loss of a pregnancy — no matter how early, no matter the circumstances — is the loss of a future you had already started imagining. That deserves to be grieved fully, without apology and without a timeline.

Infertility carries its own particular weight too — the cycle of hope and devastation, month after month, treatment after treatment. It can quietly erode your sense of self, your relationships, and your ability to feel anything but numb.

This is a space where your grief is allowed to be exactly as big as it is. We'll work through the loss at your pace — no rushing, no minimizing. Using person-centered and somatic approaches, we'll help you process what happened in your body and your mind, and find a way to carry this that doesn't require you to shrink it.

You love your baby. And you also miss yourself. You look in the mirror and don't recognize who's looking back. The things that used to feel like you — your work, your friendships, your sense of purpose, even how you move through the world — feel distant now. People keep telling you this is "just hormones" or that you'll "bounce back." But it doesn't feel like bouncing. It feels like loss.

Matrescence — the psychological transformation of becoming a mother — is one of the most profound identity shifts a person can experience, and our culture almost completely ignores it. What you're feeling isn't weakness. It's a response to something real.

We'll work to reconnect you with yourself — not the person you were before, but a grounded, integrated version of who you're becoming. Through CBT and somatic work, we'll process the identity grief, rebuild your sense of self, and help you show up in your life feeling present rather than lost.

You used to feel sharp. In control. Like yourself. Now you're forgetting words mid-sentence, crying at things that never used to affect you, snapping at people you love, and lying awake with a racing heart and no idea why. Your doctor may have told you everything looks "normal." But nothing about this feels normal to you — and you're right to want more answers.

Perimenopause can begin a decade before menopause, and its psychological effects — anxiety, depression, rage, grief, and a profound sense of losing yourself — are real, valid, and treatable. You are not "just getting older." You are in a hormonally driven neurological transition, and your mental health deserves to be taken seriously.

I'll help you make sense of what's happening — emotionally, psychologically, and in the context of your life. We'll use CBT to address the anxiety and mood patterns, somatic tools to help regulate your nervous system, and a deeply person-centered approach to help you feel like yourself again — or discover who that is now.

Society doesn't celebrate this transition — it ignores it, or worse, treats it like an ending. But for many women, menopause is also the beginning of something: a reclaiming of time, energy, and selfhood that had been given away for decades. The challenge is that getting there can feel destabilizing. The sadness, the anger, the questions about purpose and identity — they're all valid. And they're all workable.

You may be grieving the loss of fertility even if you never wanted more children. You may be questioning your relationships, your career, your sense of who you are outside of the roles you've always played. This is deep, meaningful work — and it deserves a real space, not a pamphlet.

We'll explore what this chapter means for you — not in the abstract, but in your actual life. Through honest, clinically grounded conversations, we'll work through the grief, the uncertainty, and the questions, and help you move into this next season with clarity, groundedness, and a sense of possibility.