Managing Your Mental Health as a Therapist: The Power of Acknowledgment and Acceptance As therapists, we dedicate our careers to helping others heal, find balance, and navigate life’s challenges. Yet, amid the deep empathy and emotional labor that come with our work, it can be difficult to admit when we, too, are struggling. The truth […]
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The Impact of Menopause Symptoms on Women’s Mental and Emotional Health
The Impact of Menopause Symptoms on Women’s Mental and Emotional Health Menopause is a natural stage of life, but for many women it brings unexpected challenges that go far beyond hot flashes and night sweats. The hormonal shifts of menopause and perimenopause can have a major impact on mental and emotional health, often leading to […]
Managing Anxiety Around Aging: Addressing Fears About Physical and Emotional Changes
Managing Anxiety Around Aging: Addressing Fears About Physical and Emotional Changes Aging is inevitable—but how we experience it is deeply personal. For many women in midlife and beyond, aging can bring a mix of emotions: acceptance, resistance, uncertainty, and sometimes anxiety. Common questions surface: Will I still feel like myself in this body? Will others […]
Ethical Challenges for New Therapists: What Grad School Doesn’t Teach You
Ethical Challenges for New Therapists: What Grad School Doesn’t Teach You Starting your career as a therapist is exciting, but it also comes with challenges that grad school simply doesn’t prepare you for. One of the biggest areas where new clinicians stumble is ethics. Textbooks give you the theories, but they don’t fully capture the […]
Navigating the Transition from Graduate School to Professional Practice
Navigating the Transition from Graduate School to Professional Practice Managing Expectations, Impostor Syndrome, and Setting Realistic Goals Graduating with a degree in mental health counseling, marriage/couple and family therapy, social work, or psychology is an exciting milestone, but the transition from student to professional can feel overwhelming. Many new graduates grapple with impostor syndrome, unclear […]
Navigating Identity Shifts in Midlife
Navigating Identity Shifts in Midlife: Redefining Yourself Beyond Traditional Roles For many women, midlife can feel like a time of transition—a moment when the life they once knew begins to change, whether expected or not. Careers shift, family dynamics evolve, personal aspirations come into focus, and the question arises: “Who am I now?” Imagine this: […]
The Power of Self-Compassion
The Power of Self-Compassion: Cultivating a Gentler, More Accepting Mindset in Midlife My first couple of years post menopause, I found myself trying to maintain the status quo and wondering why it felt so odd to still be “ME”. To do all the things I’ve done for years without effort. To remember what I was […]