Enhancing Women's Mental Health
As women, we struggle with our own unique set of challenges not always understood by others. Psychotherapy for Women believes having a woman therapist who understands you is essential to helping cope with these stressors and reach your desired treatment goals. As women, we have a key role in our relationships and families. In fact, we are often the engine that keeps our families and intimate relationships running.
Many women are juggling multiple important roles for the sake of themselves and their families. Due to high demanding roles and responsibilites, it’s very common for women to report feeling stressed and having minimal time for their own wants, needs, and self-care. As women, we can become very good at pushing down feelings, staying in relationships that do not serve us, struggling to find the time to engage in self-care, and taking on very demanding obligations. It’s also very common for us women to take care of others first and put our needs on the back burner for a later time. Over time, this can drastically reduce overall life satisfaction and reduce women’s health and overall well-being.
Is Therapy Right For You?
As women, we are often fulfilling multiple role responsibilites, inside and outside of the home. Those responsibilities can include, but are not limited to:
- Providing care to children, partners, friends, parents, and extended relatives
- Balancing the mental load of motherhood
- Keeping track of social events, activities, finances, and/or house chores
- Working outside the home to provide for our families
- Working in professions that provide care to others, including teachers, nurses/medical support, social workers, child care providers, and more.
- Volunteering free time to social organizations, school activities, or religious organizations
Women take on many demanding roles and responsibilites that carry a great impact on their health and overall well-being. Due to the demands women are often juggling and attending to, a woman at any phase of life can begin to feel a decline in her mental, emotional, social, spiritual, or physical health.
At Psychotherapy for Women, we understand that there are many times in a women’s life that she may begin to feel overwhelmed, stressed, depressed, anxious, angry, isolated, or fearful. If you are someone feeling this way, therapy may be a great supportive option for you.
There are many reasons we as women might contemplate if therapy is right for us. I have helped many women enhance their mental health by:
- Learning to navigate life with anxiety and depression
- Coping with life stressors, challenging transitions, and loss
- Setting healthy boundaries in relationships to protect personal health and happiness
- Taking more time for self-care, hobbies, and personal growth
- Improving the ability to communicate your needs with others
- Navigating perinatal and postpartum stressors
- Learning to adapt and cope with changes related to perimenopause and menopause
- Navigating relationships and family dynamics in motherhood
- Increasing self-esteem and confidence
- Examining and changing the relationship you have with alcohol and drug use
- Coping with parenting stress effectively to find enjoyment in parenting
- Improving relationships overall
- Learning organization, time management, and other essential life skills
- Making long-term, sustainable changes
The list of ways we can work together to enhance your mental health as a woman is truly endless. When women engage in therapy to enhance their own mental well-being, they are more likely to report:
- More enjoyment in phases of life, such as pregnancy and motherhood
- Feeling more equipped to cope with life stressors and unforeseen circumstances
- Having improved self-confidence and self-esteem
- Having less severe symptoms of anxiety and depression
- Feeling happier and healthier overall
- Reducing unhealthy habits or the use of unhelpful behaviors
- An increased understanding of their own wants and needs
- Increasing time spent engaging in self-care and tending to personal needs
- Better quality relationships, both personal and professional
- A decrease in negative, intrusive, and unwanted self-talk
Emphasis on helping women take better care of themselves
Regardless of where you may find yourself today, if you are feeling that you could benefit from support, have personal goals you want to work on, or just want to explore ways to take better care of your mental health, Psychotherapy for Women is here to help you do that. Whether you’re looking for short term support, assistance with reaching goals, needing help with symptom management, or desire long term support, therapy may be a good fit for you. Reach out today to explore how therapy could enhance your own mental well-being from a woman therapist who gets it.