Perimenopause + Menopause Therapy for Women
You’ve known yourself for a long time. Then midlife arrives and some familiar things start behaving differently. Sleep changes. Anxiety gets louder. Your patience shifts. Your body feels different.
And all of this is happening inside a life that’s changing, too. I want to understand what this season has actually been like for you.
Your body is part of the conversation.
Perimenopause and menopause can affect far more than your body. Changes in mood, anxiety, sleep, energy, concentration, emotional reactivity, and even the way you experience yourself can all be part of the picture- and many women don’t realize how connected these changes can be.
Hormones don’t have to become the explanation for everything you’re experiencing. But they can be an important piece of what’s happening, alongside your relationships, history, stress, caregiving, nervous system, and the rest of your life.
We can pay attention to all of it.
Midlife changes the view.
Roles and relationships you’ve lived inside for years can start to look different. You notice what drains you. You have less interest in smoothing certain things over. Your time feels more valuable, and some of the things you once accepted without much thought don’t sit quite the same anymore.
I don’t think that means you need to reinvent yourself. You’ve simply had more time to know yourself, and it’s worth paying attention when what you know starts to change.
What’s been feeling different?
Anxiety + overthinking
Your mind feels busier than it used to. You replay conversations, anticipate problems, or have a harder time settling even when everything is technically fine.
Sleep + emotional changes
Poor sleep has a way of finding its way into everything. You may feel more overwhelmed, irritable, sensitive, or simply less steady than you’re used to feeling.
Relationships
Marriage, friendship, intimacy, family dynamics, and the relationships that have been part of your life for decades can feel different from where you stand now.
Caregiving + aging parents
Your children still need you while your parents may be beginning to need you more. There can be love, responsibility, grief, exhaustion, and complicated feelings mixed together.
Identity + changing roles
The woman you are now may want different things from the woman you were ten or twenty years ago. We can get curious about that without turning it into a crisis.
Old patterns showing up again
People-pleasing, boundaries, family dynamics, grief, or past experiences can resurface during periods of change, even when you understand perfectly well where they came from.
There are things we notice before we know what to call them.
The way your body changes around certain people. The relief you feel when something gets canceled. The conversation you keep returning to. The difference between something that feels unfamiliar and something that simply doesn’t feel right.
My approach makes room for those things alongside evidence-based therapy, mindfulness, and nervous-system awareness. Intuition, spirituality, and questions of meaning are welcome when they matter to you. They aren’t assumed.
That balance is part of Jen's whole-person approach: evidence-based therapy and practical tools alongside nervous-system awareness, self-trust, intuition, and meaning.
Therapy with me is a conversation.
I’m warm, curious, and involved. I’ll ask questions, share what I’m noticing, and help us make connections between what’s happening now and patterns that have been around much longer.
There’s room here for anxiety, relationships, hormones, family, grief, old stuff, new questions, and humor when it finds its way into the room. I want to understand what all of this is actually like for you, not just what we could call it.
I think a lot about peace.
I don’t mean being happy all the time. I mean knowing yourself well enough to recognize your patterns, trust your judgment, and understand what belongs to you and what doesn’t.
Life will continue being complicated. Relationships will change. People will need things from you. There will always be parts we can’t control. I want you to feel more grounded in yourself while you’re living it.
Peace, self-trust, understanding patterns, and knowing what is and isn't hers to carry are the goals Jen herself describes for this work.
A quick note about perimenopause, menopause + therapy
I’m a therapist, not a medical provider. Our work can include the emotional, relational, and psychological parts of perimenopause, while medical evaluation and treatment remain with your physician or another qualified medical provider.
You don’t need to know exactly how much of what you’re experiencing is hormonal before we begin.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
Therapy in Los Alamitos + throughout California.
IN PERSON
Los Alamitos, California
ONLINE
Throughout California
SESSIONS
Individual therapy · 50 minutes · $222
Her Turn
You don’t have to know exactly what’s changing to know that something feels different.
We can start with what you’ve been noticing and see where the conversation takes us.
