Midlife Transitions
Midlife often brings profound change involving loss, identity shifts, uncertainty, and the need to reorient to a new version of life. Even positive, wanted transitions involve a mix of joy and grief.
I work with women navigating transitions related to relationships, family, parenting, career, grief, identity, and changing roles. You may be coping with:
- Changing dynamics in your family, marriage or relationships
- Divorce or separation
- Widowhood or significant loss
- Children becoming more independent
- Questions about purpose or what comes next
Perhaps you are reevaluating long-held roles, considering changes in work or relationships, or feeling exhausted from trying to hold everything together for everyone else.
Some transitions are sudden and disorienting. Other times they unfold slowly over years. Either way, the emotional and mental load of adapting to change can feel overwhelming, confusing, and lonely. You may feel untethered from the version of yourself you once knew, while not yet fully connected to who you are becoming.
Our Work May Include...
Meeting yourself with greater compassion during periods of uncertainty and change
Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) to work with your protective parts and support deep healing and growth
Slowing down enough to reconnect with yourself, your needs, values, and desires
Processing grief, loss, and the emotional impact of major life changes
Addressing relationship patterns, boundaries, communication, and changing family or partnership dynamics
Developing routines, supports, and practices that help you feel held and capable
Strengthening your sense of self and identity beneath the roles you have carried
Challenging harmful messages and expectations that keep you disconnected from your own needs, limits, and capacity for rest
Moving Toward a New Beginning
Therapy can provide support and space to reconnect with yourself while addressing anxiety, grief, identity questions, and old emotional wounds that often surface during periods of change. Though transitions often involve losses and endings, they can also become opportunities for healing, growth, clarity and new beginnings.
How to Get Started
Fill out the contact form and I will reach out within 24 to 48 business hours to schedule a 15-minute free phone consultation. Phone consultations can be done with you directly, with a parent inquiring about therapy for their young adult, or with one partner looking into couples therapy.