You might be asking yourself following questions:

  • What is my purpose now the children have gone?
  • Why am I so angry all the time?
  • How come all this ‘stuff’ makes me feel stuck?
  • Why don’t I feel like ‘me’?
  • I have a wonderful life – how come I don’t feel happy?
  • I beginning to sound like my mother … what have I become without realising?

I have been working with women in menopause for over 25 years. Many of the above questions became the catalysts for prompting clients to seek help and starting their therapy.

As a psychotherapist and researcher, I am aware of the many messages, reactions and judgements that can exist about menopause and women who are in their menopause. It can be a very discombobulating time fuelled by societal and cultural critical messages of loss, pain, ageing and all must be avoided.

But what if there was another set of lenses that viewed menopause as a gift, an opportunity for personal growth ? The time for a woman to grow into her wisdom, stand her ground and be who she is …. not simply follow what she’s been told to be?

My menopause therapy approach is based on transformative change gained through the therapeutic relationship. I respect menopause as a sacred time for a woman’s becoming and emergence. Therapy can provide clients with the opportunity to:

  • experience, access and enable a secure, grounded space within and without
  • help make sense of the flux, process and insights
  • work with imposter syndrome
  • work out the ‘unfinished business’ that might benefit from attention and understanding
  • recognise unresolved mother-issues: early life struggles and trauma – what I call ‘the dark-mother complex’
  • process unresolved anger, rage and shame

To find out more, simply contact me and we can talk through how I might be able to help.

RESOURCES

You might also want to check out my menopause resources.