Women’s Mental Health

Therapy in Berkeley & throughout California

Women move through profound changes across the lifespan—and each one leaves its mark on the mind and body.

For some, the challenge lives in the reproductive years: fertility struggles, pregnancy and postpartum, a difficult or traumatic birth, pregnancy loss, or the monthly weight of PMS and PMDD. For others, it arrives further along the arc—the shifting ground of perimenopause and menopause. And sometimes there isn’t one clear transition at all, just the cumulative experience of moving through the world in a woman’s body while carrying relationships, work, family, caregiving, and the expectations that come with all of it.

I specialize in women’s mental health and have advanced training in perinatal mental health, EMDR, and somatic therapy. I support women experiencing anxiety, depression, overwhelm, birth trauma, reproductive and hormonal transitions, and the profound identity shifts that can accompany pregnancy, motherhood, and midlife.

My approach is holistic. We can make space for what is happening psychologically while also listening to the body, the nervous system, and the larger context of your life. That might mean working with old trauma that has resurfaced, processing a birth experience you can’t quite shake, finding your footing in motherhood, or trying to understand why you suddenly don’t feel like yourself anymore.

And we can name the larger forces shaping women’s distress, too—the impossible beauty standards, the fraught relationship many of us develop with our bodies, the invisible labor of caregiving, and the quiet depletion of living and mothering in a culture where so many women are expected to function without anything resembling a village.

You don’t have to separate the emotional, physical, relational, and cultural pieces of your experience here. We can hold all of it.

If something here resonates, I’d love to connect.

Reach out for a free consultation.