Perimenopause & Menopause
Navigating Change, Identity & the Next Chapter of Your Life
Perimenopause and menopause often begin quietly. You may notice subtle shifts in how you feel—physically, mentally, and emotionally—and wonder if it’s stress, aging, life circumstances, or something in the environment. Then one day, it becomes clearer: something feels off. You may think, I don’t feel like myself anymore, even if you can’t fully explain why.
These changes aren’t only hormonal. They often arrive alongside major life transitions—children leaving home, questions about identity and purpose, changes in work or retirement, aging parents, shifting partnerships, or a growing awareness that life is moving into a new phase. All of this can make the menopausal years feel confusing, overwhelming, and unexpectedly lonely.
When Menopause Brings Bigger Questions
For many women, this season brings deeper questions that may not have had space before:
- Who am I now, beyond the roles I’ve lived in?
- What have I devoted my life to—and what do I want moving forward?
- Did I make the right choices?
- How do I live with the paths I took—and the ones I didn’t?
- What parts of me have been put aside, waiting to be expressed?
You may find yourself reflecting on the past while feeling uncertain about the future. Even if you’ve loved your life, these questions can be unsettling—and deeply meaningful.
A Space to Slow Down and Listen
In therapy, there is room to name and explore everything that’s happening in your life. We slow the pace and create space to listen—to your body, your emotions, your thoughts, and your inner life.
Together, we explore:
- How perimenopause or menopause is affecting you emotionally and physically
- The thoughts and questions arising about identity, purpose, and meaning
- What feels unfinished, unexpressed, or long set aside
- Who you are becoming—and who you want to be in this next phase of life
This work is about orienting back to yourself, with honesty and compassion.
Loneliness, Longing & Possibility
Many women experience this time as isolating, wondering if others feel this way too. There can be grief for what’s ending, alongside a longing for what hasn’t yet been lived. You may sense a desire to be more authentic, more fully yourself—while also feeling unsure about the cost of change or how it might disrupt familiar roles and expectations.
At the same time, this can be a powerful period of possibility. As old assumptions fall away, new questions emerge:
- What do I hope for?
- What do I want my life to stand for now?
- What dreams still want expression through me?
Menopause can be not only a reckoning, but a re-orientation—one that opens the door to creativity, depth, and renewed purpose.
How I Support You Through This Transition
I offer a grounded, compassionate therapeutic space where you don’t have to have answers right away. Sometimes what’s needed most is simply someone in the boat with you—someone steady, present, and willing to companion you as you find your way.
My approach is psycho-spiritual, reflective, and holistic, integrating emotional awareness, body wisdom, and deeper questions of meaning and purpose. Together, we work gently and honestly, trusting that clarity and direction unfold over time.
This work is deeply meaningful to me. My own lived experience as a woman, a mother, and someone who has navigated menopause and major life transitions informs how I hold space—with humility, understanding, and respect for how complex this season can be.
A Time to Come Home to Yourself
Perimenopause and menopause are not just endings—they are thresholds. This work supports you in coming home to yourself, reconnecting with your inner life, and shaping the next chapter with intention, authenticity, and care.
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
During an Intensive, You Will Gain…
- A deeper understanding of your patterns, challenges, and the obstacles that obscure healing and growth.
- Awareness of the beliefs, feelings, and sensations connected to your past, and tools to transform them so you can live with greater integration of mind, body, and heart.
- Practical steps toward healing, growth, and living a more peaceful, authentic, and fulfilling life.
- Insight into how family legacies across generations impact your present-day life, relationships, and choices.
Format of Intensive (5 hours):
- The initial session (50 minutes) will be in person or online to learn about your life, allowing time to share important parts of your story that impact you today. I will be curious about your history, current symptoms, challenges, suffering, and what you wish for yourself. I may ask you to fill out a DART assessment (developmental and relational trauma) and/or do some upfront reading as homework.
- Intensive (3 hours). Based on our initial session, I will plan an intensive specific to your goals and needs. I will facilitate our work using IFS, HOCI, Somatic, Polyvagal, Relational Life, and trauma-informed models. This may include but is not limited to, concepts such as IFS parts language, understanding your nervous system and physical symptoms from a trauma perspective, developmental stages of your early life experiences, how your history shapes and influences you today, and the five core issues of relational wounding that impact us as adults: self-esteem, boundaries, reality, dependency, and moderation.
At times, we require more time to comprehend and deal with the complexities of being human, which impact how we feel, think, and engage with life.
Therapeutic Intensives provide a nurturing and efficient way to start or continue the therapeutic process. Spending an extended period allows for delving deeper into areas where you may feel stuck or during more challenging times. Intensives integrate body-based techniques alongside therapy which offers a holistic approach to healing and understanding historical patterns that are unconscious. There are instances when regular ongoing therapy may be restricted amid daily life responsibilities and relationships. Intensives provide all the necessary elements to be taken care of and to aid in supporting and enhancing your healing and personal development.
- Next steps. Following our meeting, I will email you a summary of our intensive recommendations, an outline of your internal system, insights about your developmental wounds, and ways to support your ongoing healing through practice. All elements will be tailored to your specific needs based on Internal Family Systems, the HOCI Method, and somatic/body-based practices.
- Integration. A 50-minute follow-up session 1-2 weeks after our session to discuss the intensive, answer any questions, and how to keep the practice going. Recommendations may include continuing ongoing therapy, joining groups, specific practices that support your nervous system, suggested resources, or other suggestions that are a reflection of our time.
Intensive Options
Intensives can be structured in several ways to meet your needs:
- In-person: 2 or 3-hour sessions, offered in the evenings or on weekends.
- Online: 90-minute sessions over several days.
- Online: One 3-hour session (with a 30-minute break), offered on weekends.
Cost: 90 minutes $375; 2 Hours $500; 3 hours $750
Full payment is due at the time of scheduling.
To schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation call, please email me.
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step."
- Rosa Parks
