Therapy for Women in Person in Downtown Denton, Texas and Telehealth Across the State
If you feel like the ground has shifted under you in the last year or two, you are not imagining it.
- AI has changed what job security even means, and women report feeling far less secure about it than men do.
- The mental load of running a household, the scheduling, the planning, the remembering, falls on women regardless of income or career success. Earning more does not buy you relief from it.
- Add caregiving, a marriage running on fumes, or a return to work after years away, and the usual advice, rest more, set better boundaries, journal it out, stops landing the way it used to.
I work with women dealing with real pressure who need solutions that lead to genuine change and healing outside the therapy room. Insight is not enough. I want to be on your team.
When Therapy Helps
- Work stress that follows you home
- Getting sick the moment your vacation finally starts
- PTO sitting banked because using it feels too anxiety-inducing to attempt
- Burnout that makes it hard to feel present with your own kids
- Loneliness inside a marriage that looks fine from the outside
- Anxiety about re-entering the dating world after divorce or loss
- Using wine to escape more than to actually enjoy it
- Resentment from being the one who keeps track of everything
- Caretaking fatigue with kids, aging parents, or both
- Doubting yourself more than expected when returning to the workforce
- Guilt when you want more for yourself
- Success that looks impressive on paper and does not match how you actually feel
What’s Different About Working with Me
- I will tell you what I see, even when it is not comfortable.
- We look at sleep, nutrition, movement, and the lifestyle patterns that are quietly shaping your mental health.
- My background in neuroscience means we talk about what is happening in your nervous system, not just what is happening in your head.
- Most of what brings you in did not start yesterday, so we find where it actually started and what keeps it running.
- We use experiential practices to rewire anxiety, not just talk about it.
- We use behavioral activation for depression, real steps that rebuild momentum when getting through the day already feels like too much.
- Trauma work here is aimed at post-traumatic growth, not just symptom management.
- Relationship work is part of it too, whether the strain is with a partner, a parent, a child, or yourself.
LGBTQ+ Women
Stress for LGBTQ+ women is not always about work or family logistics. It can mean being misunderstood, managed, judged, or only partially seen, by family, at work, or in everyday systems that expect you to simplify yourself for someone else’s comfort.
You should not have to translate yourself in therapy. Here, the actual context of your life gets taken seriously: relationships, identity, family boundaries, workplace dynamics, and how all of it stacks together.
Women in Leadership
Being the only woman in the room, or one of very few, carries a specific kind of weight. Research consistently shows that competent women in leadership are not rewarded for that competence the way men are. They are often seen as just as skilled, and still liked less for it, and liking turns out to matter more than skill when it comes to who gets hired or promoted. Many women in leadership develop high-functioning co-dependency patterns at work and home to overcompensate. You did not imagine that double standard. It is documented, and it is exhausting to manage on top of the actual job.
Staying mentally well while you keep pursuing leadership at a high level takes more than willpower. It takes an honest understanding of what you are actually up against and a real strategy for protecting your mental health while you do it.
Mental health and Menopause
This is a fast-changing area of women’s health, and I make a point of staying current on it, because the standard of care keeps improving and you deserve a provider who keeps up. Mood changes during this stage are real, not in your head, and not something to push through quietly. Anxiety, irritability, trouble concentrating, and disrupted sleep are common during perimenopause specifically, and they can bring on or worsen depression even in women who have never struggled with their mental health before.
This is a window, not a permanent state, and you should not have to navigate it alone or wonder if what you are feeling is just you. I cordinate with local women’s health providers and help clients become a confident advocate for their own care, in this office and with every provider see.
Starting and Returning to the Workforce
Stepping into a career for the first time, or going back after years away, comes with real disorientation. Psychologists call it identity foreclosure: you built so much of yourself around one role that you lose track of who you are without it.
The market makes that harder right now. New graduates are facing one of the toughest entry-level job markets in years, and women returning after time away are walking into those same headwinds while also managing the confidence hit of starting over.
I have spent fifteen years in a college town, with a background in career counseling for non-traditional students, including single mothers and first-generation graduates. I know what it takes to launch in a hard market, and I am prepared to support your mental health, build real resilience, and help you build a plan that actually moves you forward.
Millennial? ADHD? Hate the phone? Same.
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