ARE YOU A WOMAN IN YOUR 40S? HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
It is astounding how little medical professionals know about women in this life stage. We know a whole lot about puberty and adolescence, but virtually nothing about this complex and intense transitional stage of life that every woman on the planet will eventually go through. If you think you might be struggling with the physical and/or psychological symptoms of perimenopause or menopause, or are just suddenly feeling lost in your life/family/career, come talk to me. We will navigate this tricky time together.
BECOMING A PARENT TURNED YOUR ENTIRE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.
Post partum depression and anxiety are real. So are leaky breasts, sore vaginas, and a sometimes seemingly bottomless well of tears (both your own and your newborn babe’s). You need help transitioning into this new person that you’ve become overnight: a parent. Often this transition marks a grieving process for “the old you”in order to move into this new identity. This can be scary and overwhelming.
YOU’RE A CHILD OF IMMIGRANTS
Do you struggle with feeling “not good enough”?
Do you feel pressure to achieve, achieve, achieve?
Do you sometimes feel like you are juggling expectations of conflicting cultures?
All par for the course for children of immigrants. I can help you find ways to process early childhood experiences and create healthier patterns within your family of origin and beyond.
I've been there. And guess what? THERAPY HELPS. It can be intimidating to call up a therapist for the first time, but when you find the right one, it's worth it! I make the therapeutic process fun and engaging by using humor and authenticity.
“I recently learned that what happens in a cocoon is not that a caterpillar grows wings and turns into a butterfly. Rather, the caterpillar turns to mush. It disintegrates, and out of this mush, a new creature grows. Why does no one talk about the mush? Or about how, for any change at all to happen, we must, for some time, be nothing - be mush…Right now your entire life is mush. But only if you don’t try and escape it might you emerge one day as a butterfly…”
Excerpt from Motherhood, by Sheila Heti