Rebecca offers thoughtful, individualized psychotherapy through psychodynamic work, with specialized support for Maternal Wellness and Menopause.
A type of talk therapy that focuses on revealing and addressing the unconscious thoughts and feelings that influence a person’s behavior. This therapy approach recognizes the importance of past experiences, beliefs, and emotions that shape current patterns of behavior.
The therapist works with the client to explore their hidden thoughts and emotions, and identify unresolved conflicts or traumas that may be impacting their current life.
The goal of psychodynamic therapy is to help the client develop a deeper understanding of their inner world, increase self-awareness, make their unconscious conscious to them, and make long lasting changes to their patterns of behavior.
I offer a compassionate form of counseling and support to women in all stages of family planning, infertility, pregnancy, the postpartum period, and beyond the reproductive lifecycle to menopause. The common threads here are hormonal shifts and major life transitions unique to women that impact their mood, their psyche and their ability to function like “before”.
During pregnancy, have you felt anxious, depressed, frightened or overwhelmed? After delivering your baby, have you felt anxious, overwhelming sadness or confusion? These feelings are often precipitated by environmental stressors, personal history, and hormonal shifts in the body.
During midlife have you experienced the hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause that impact more than your body? They can trigger anxiety, depression, panic attacks and past trauma. Have you felt brain fog, forgetfulness, a lack of focus, and a decrease in motivation? Are you questioning your relationships, your body image, your career, or your sense of self?
I recognize the emotional and physical needs of women during very vulnerable transitions in their life. My training will allow you to explore, uncover conflicts, and develop coping strategies around infertility, pregnancy loss, anticipating your baby, premature birth issues, a traumatic birth experience, gender disappointment, adjusting to motherhood, fighting the “Baby Blues”, postpartum depression, bonding with your baby, establishing a new routine, body image issues, role expectations with your partner and family, back to work adjustments, adding additional children to your family and all issues related to perimenopause and menopause.
These feelings are treatable and talking about them are often the first steps towards healing and an improved state of mind.
Work on your struggles in ways that make sense for you and yield results:
