Missing your voice and sense of empowerment?

As women, we come upon many crossroads in life, especially as they relate to our closest, most intimate connections. Whether we’re navigating betrayal, coming out of a toxic relationship, or becoming aware of how past relationships have negatively impacted our self-image, we are likely to experience feelings of isolation and aimlessness, unsure of how to muster the energy to keep going—and where to go next.

Counseling For Women

Endings, though ripe with possibility, set the stage for grief, uncertainty, and doubt

For many of us, the candle has been burning at both ends for so long—working, raising children, and trying to maintain active, healthy relationships—that we’ve lost sight of how to take care of ourselves. We are the doers, the nurturers, and the supporters, typically in these roles for so long that we don’t even recognize that we need help or when it’s time to ask for it, even as a significant crisis or rupture impacts our lives.

And how does this manifest in our bodies? Physical pain, discomfort, and exhaustion. Panic takes the form of a racing heart, an upset stomach, and a sense of doom. Anxiety zaps us of our mental energy because we spend so much time worrying about what’s “right.” And the stress is so overwhelming that we feel crushed under the weight of it all. Life is losing its luster, and we’re desperate to know when there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

If you’ve come to the next great impasse in your life, you may be wondering how to proceed in a way that feels most satisfying and authentic to you and no one else. Particularly if you’re considering ending or recently out of a significant relationship, you may be looking for direction on how to conserve and honor your energy. Wanting to increase your resilience, you aspire to new, affirming emotional responses that will energize and empower your spirit.

The light at the end of the tunnel is there, and our therapists are committed to helping you find it. By shedding trauma and adjusting your relationship with yourself in therapy, you can come Hohm to yourself—and everyone else in your life—in an entirely new way.

Relational health is essential to thriving as individuals

Betrayal is a form of trauma. When the security of any relationship is compromised by lying, manipulation, or abuse, it demobilizes our ability to create healthy, affirming attachments. Not only does this impact our relationship with the perpetrator—it sets the stage for unhealthy relationship patterns that will follow us throughout our lives. This can become particularly problematic when we have children of our own, for whom we want to model healthy interactions and behaviors.

Our clients often seek women’s counseling after suffering a betrayal or rupture in their partnership. They’ve experienced an event that has silenced their voices and simultaneously forced them to make significant decisions about how to move forward. As a result, they battle anxiety, PTSD, disassociation, and disruptive physical symptoms that keep them from having clarity on their thoughts and feelings.

Using a combination of mindful healing techniques and trauma-informed therapy, we’ve helped women from all walks of life deepen their self-understanding. As they learn to transform adversity into opportunity in counseling, our clients have successfully healed and re-energized their purpose, passion, and connections.

Our approach

As women, we contain multitudes, layers. Every formative experience, whether good or bad, casts a ripple into every part of our being, shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. Therapy is an opportunity to look within and between those layers to illuminate hidden and stuck places, offering skills and perspectives about how to move beyond them.

Because we are trauma-informed therapists committed to moving at a safe, comfortable pace in therapy, we will ensure you’re equipped with effective coping skills and a strong, secure client-therapist connection before digging into the hard stuff. Using techniques that will allow you to listen to your body on the deepest, most cellular level, you can learn to become grounded in your body and confident to interpret its messages.

From there, a big part of women’s counseling will be psychoeducation about how disruptive symptoms stem from relational stress and trauma. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment perspectives can unlock the key to understanding how you relate to yourself and others. And you can better identify the “parts” that have developed out of a desire to protect your self-energy with Internal Family Systems (IFS). As we sift through the layers and befriend—rather than reject—protective mechanisms like anxiety, you can achieve the vulnerability and connection you desire. These approaches will steer us toward your most authentic goals and values.

Finally, as trained and experienced Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapists, we are committed to helping the women we work with achieve lasting peace and resolution following trauma. We recognize that many of our clients come from damaging, abusive relationship dynamics (whether romantic, familial, or platonic), and we use EMDR to aid in reprocessing stored pain. Through EMDR and other somatic methods, the body is given a chance to feel and heal from emotions that have are ordinarily stifled, invalidated, or ignored.

As women, we possess layers that have fiercely protected us for years, but therapy is a chance to let go of the relational patterns and behaviors that no longer serve us. By using the counseling space to tune into our inner wisdom and follow the map it has charted for us, we can navigate any obstacle with a sense of confidence and empowerment.

Unsure if counseling is right for you?

“Should” is a veiled criticism, and we don’t use that word much in therapy. Instead, our job is to help clients discover the answers that already exist inside them. Rather than offering advice, we want to empower the women we work with to recognize their inherent strengths in counseling and learn how to leverage them.
With our guidance, you are likely to find that the knowledge is already in you; we are here to help you find it.
The great thing about therapy is that it’s designed for healing, not hurting. Moving at a comfortable pace, our therapists will build you up with resources before getting into the tough stuff. And we’ll check in with you regularly to discuss how you’re feeling. You can always request to slow down, change directions, or pause therapy, and our clinicians are here to ensure that the treatment process—regardless of frequency or duration—is done safely.
Many of the women we work with have put off therapy for years due to this specific fear. However, counseling is intended to align our clients with their most authentic, attuned, and embodied selves.
Through this process, you are likely to better understand triggers and internalized core beliefs, which often have roots in past relational experiences. From this insight, you can learn how to pick relationships that affirm and uplift you rather than picking relationships based on what you believe you deserve. Alongside developing new insights about yourself, you will be able to figure out which relationships in your life are serving your higher purpose and which are not.

Reclaim your destiny.

Everything you’ve been through up to this point has led you here to this important moment that is circled on a map for you—an opportunity to shed layers, amplify your voice, and rekindle your passions. If you are ready to come Hohm to yourself through counseling for women, contact us. Please note that all therapy sessions are conducted online at this time.