Women’s Counselling

Maybe you’re doing all the things you’re “supposed” to be doing and somehow you still don’t feel like yourself.

You’re getting everyone where they need to go. You’re working. You’re answering the texts. You’re remembering the appointments, buying the groceries and meal planning, keeping track of what everyone needs, and lying awake at 3 a.m. thinking about all of it.

And lately, maybe you’re more anxious. More irritated. Less patient. Exhausted but somehow unable to sleep. Things that never used to bother you suddenly do. Your body feels different. Your relationships feel different. You might even look at your life and think, I have so much to be grateful for, so why am I not happier?

Or maybe you’re just really, really tired of being the one who holds everything together.

My Approach

I have a particular interest in working with women who have reached that point of wondering, Is this stress? Anxiety? Burnout? Hormones? My relationship? Perimenopause? Or am I just losing my gd mind?

Usually, life is more complicated than one neat answer.

Before becoming a counsellor, I trained and worked as a pharmacist and in functional medicine, and that background still influences how I think about mental health. I’m interested in the whole picture…your emotional health, physical health, sleep, hormones, relationships, workload, medications, stress, and what’s actually happening in your life.

Sometimes what looks like “anxiety” is a woman who has been running at full speed for ten years and has finally run out of road.

And sometimes there are physical or hormonal changes happening at the same time.

We can sort through that together. And when something deserves a conversation with your physician, naturopath or another healthcare provider, I can help you organize what you’ve been experiencing and prepare to advocate for yourself.

Things We Can Talk About

Maybe you’re dealing with:

• Anxiety that seems to have come out of nowhere

• Feeling overwhelmed by things you used to handle easily

• Burnout and being completely touched-out, talked-out, or needed-out

• Perimenopause or menopause

• Sleep that has suddenly gone completely sideways

• Motherhood and wondering where you went in the middle of it

• A relationship that doesn’t feel the way it used to

• Caring for kids, parents, partners, and everyone in between

• Feeling guilty whenever you do something for yourself

• Perfectionism and the exhausting belief that you should be doing all of this better

• Career changes or wondering whether you even want the life you worked so hard to build

• Grief and loss

• Changes in your body or how you feel about yourself

• Realizing that you’ve spent years taking care of everyone else and have absolutely no idea what you need

What to Expect

You don’t need to arrive with a diagnosis or a beautifully articulated therapy goal.

You can literally come in and say, “I don’t know what’s wrong. I just know I can’t keep doing this.”

That’s enough.

We’ll start with what life looks like right now. We’ll figure out what’s draining you, what’s changed, what might be happening underneath it, and what you need more (or less) of.

There will be practical strategies when they’re useful. There will also be space to talk about the bigger stuff: relationships, identity, resentment, motherhood, aging, your body, work, expectations, and whether the life you built still fits the person you are now.

Ready to Get Started?

You don’t need to wait until you completely fall apart.

And you don’t need to become a calmer, more organized, better-coping version of yourself.

Maybe we start by figuring out what you actually need now.