SF East Bay Women's Psychotherapy
Our Attachment-Based Women's Therapy Program can help you cultivate self-love, set boundaries and have happy and healthy relationships.
In today's culture, women are challenged with a variety of conflicting beliefs, messages and social expectations about how to live a rich and satisfying life. As modern women in Western Culture, we are often faced with high demands to navigate issues such as a career, parenting and femininity that get internalized into shame, guilt and exhaustion. The pressure we put on ourselves may actually undermine our self-worth and negatively impact our interpersonal relationships with loved ones. Working with a sensitive and skilled therapist can help to unpack your feelings, needs and goals in a balanced and self-compassionate way. You can learn how how to achieve these important life goals while maintaining self-care and health.
Women must face the difficulties of living in a society that consists of conflicting expectations, social pressure and cultural impositions of femininity . Therapy can help you find your own relationship to what being a woman means for you.
Women often experience anxiety, depression and self-esteem issues in silence, because of being so rooted in care-giving roles. You don't have to suffer alone anymore- North Berkeley Women's Therapy can help you cultivate self-love, set boundaries and have happy and healthy relationships. Learning to have a loving & compassionate relationship to yourself is a vital part of the transformative healing that often occurs in Women's Therapy.
LGBTQ & Trans Inclusive Psychotherapy
Our East Bay Women's Therapy program covers a wide array of issues that are specific to many women's needs. We are sensitive to trauma, multicultural and diversity based needs.
Women's Therapy Can Help
Body Image
Sexuality
Self-Esteem
Generate Self-Compassion & Self-Love
Relational Issues
Dating Issues
Sexual Trauma
Pregnancy & Childbirth
Pregnancy Losses via Abortion or Miscarriages
Parenting
Menopause
Hormonal Changes, or PMS
Infertility
Gynecological Illnesses & Conditions
Shame & Self-Doubt
Emotional and Sexual Affairs
Other medical conditions that often affect women more frequently than men, such as fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, and osteoporosis.
LGBTQ issues related to sexuality, coming-out, parenting and pregnancy etc.
Women who experience shame or guilt over their sexual needs, desires or sexual orientation and gender expression.
Aging
Spiritual and existential issues
Post-partum Depression
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Anxiety/Panic Attacks
Boundary Setting
Overwhelmed by Fulfilling Too Many Care-taking Roles
Emotional Overload
Eating Disorders/ Relationship with food and body
Women's General Health Concerns
Struggling with Perfectionism and/or Procrastination
Changes in Libido
Sexuality and Desire
Issues Specific to Trans-Women
Codependency
Dealing with internalized "Superwoman Complex" and the toll it takes on your health
Birthing Trauma
Family Planning
Single Parenting
Multi-cultural Issues
Navigating the daunting task of living in a culture of conflicting expectations, social pressure and cultural impositions of the "ideal woman" or the concept of femininity
Exploring Gender (queer femme in a heterosexual culture; Masculine of Center or Butch-identified women; heterosexual women who do not want to have children etc).
Social/Cultural Issues for Women
Work & School Discrimination
Balancing traditional female roles with personal ambitions and career
Balancing Work and Family
Caring for aging or ill parents and children (also known as "the sandwich generation")
Sexual Harassment
Self-esteem issues: feelings of worthlessness, shame or inadequacy
Surviving and healing from Intimate Partner Violence, Rape or other trauma.
Being a working mother and feeling guilt, exhaustion & overwhelm
Stage of Life Transitions (entering middle age, having a baby, getting married, kids moving out etc)
Being a stay-at-home-mom who feels isolated and questions if she gave up too much.
How to raise a confident and well-rounded daughter or how to raise a socially aware and sensitive son.
Empty Nest
Becoming the EMPOWERED, CONFIDENT & SELF-LOVING WOMAN you want to be.
Becoming a mother is a huge ad life changing event that is also often juxtaposed for many women with balancing a career and home life. Our East Bay Women;s Psychotherapy program can help you learn to develop strong self-care habits and boundaries while supporting your very important caregiving roles.
Our East Bay psychotherapists & psychologists, are highly skilled in treating trauma through body-based modalities. Somatic trauma therapies, such as Somatic Experiencing, AEDP, EMDR and Hakomi operate from the idea that the resulting psychological trauma is not inherently caused by the actual traumatic event, but more so from the inability of the nervous system, mind and body to effectively process the detrimental experience. By working from a somatic and holistic perspective in trauma therapy, individuals who have survived such painful and disturbing experiences can reset their nervous systems and once again feel safe in the world.
