Physiology. Psychology. Purpose. Therapy shaped for women.
bio
Hormones play an integral role in our wellbeing. For women, each week of our month is dictated by the movement or absence of hormones. To ignore this is to do a disservice to the whole person.
psycho
We’re taught to internalise our distress, to call ourselves ‘too sensitive,’ ‘too emotional,’ or simply ‘not enough.’ But your inner world, your anxious thoughts, and your coping mechanisms are not personal failures; they are adaptive responses to the life you’ve lived. By untangling these psychological patterns with self-compassion rather than shame, we make space for healing and self-trust.
social
We have societal rules; some protect us all and some protect the men. Few protect the women. By breaking down the societal expectations that no longer serve us, or don’t consider the wider context of 21st-century living, we have the opportunity to ask ‘what do you want?’
Understanding yourself is not a luxury; it is the foundation of your wellbeing.
Therapy that sees all of you.
As a female counsellor, I have naturally always considered the psychological and social aspects of therapy. However, understanding the role hormones play in a woman’s body throughout her life is also monumental in understanding her as a whole. Whether it’s puberty and menarche, ‘the reproductive years’, perimenopause, or post-menopause, it is a physical and emotional rollercoaster. Many women experience this even more intensely due to underlying health conditions, such as PMDD, PME, or trauma.
When we position this against societal expectations of how women should ‘get on with things’, and how the mental load, anxiety, or hormonal mood changes are normalised or ridiculed, we somehow lose sight of the bigger picture and treat each symptom in isolation.
That is why I use a biopsychosocial approach: so I can support the whole of you.
Learning to understand our bodies is an intimate process, and it isn’t always easy. My role as a therapist is to help you connect those dots and understand what is actually happening, so you can make informed choices and, perhaps for the first time, truly understand yourself.
The challenge isn’t just what is happening to your body – hormones are not our enemy. The real work is learning to understand them so we can turn them into our allies, and to stop abiding by societal expectations that no longer serve us.