Womxn's Therapy in California
Womxn's Therapy in California (Bay Area & Online)
Womxn’s and women’s therapy often means untangling family roles, cultural pressure, and relationships where your needs came last. Many clients come in struggling with people pleasing, codependency, self doubt, or a sense of emotional exhaustion. In therapy we slow down, make space for your lived experience, and build self trust and boundaries with compassion rather than blame.
I am a women’s therapist in San Francisco supporting recovery from narcissistic abuse, trauma, and fertility related experiences including egg freezing, infertility, loss, and complex decisions about parenthood. My work blends EMDR therapy, IFS informed parts work, and somatic regulation to restore safety, agency, and choice. We attend to both emotional depth and practical grounding.
I also work with womxn navigating relationship patterns, singledom, sexuality, career and financial stress, and the impact of patriarchy on worth and voice. Sessions are steady, relational, and trauma informed, helping you feel clearer and more present in your life. I offer in person therapy in San Francisco and virtual therapy throughout California.
Womxn’s & Women’s Therapy in San Francisco & Marin | Trauma-Informed Care
I use the term womxn’s therapy to describe the work I do with women and femmes who are navigating the emotional, relational, and systemic pressures that often shape their lives. While many people search for “women’s therapy,” I choose the spelling womxn to signal that my practice is inclusive of cisgender women, transgender women, nonbinary femmes, and others whose experiences are shaped by gendered expectations and power dynamics. This language reflects an awareness that there is no single way to be a woman or femme, and that gendered experiences are influenced by culture, identity, trauma, and social context.
In womxn’s therapy, I work with clients around concerns such as relationships, family of origin dynamics, narcissistic abuse, codependency, fertility and reproductive experiences, career stress, financial pressure, identity development, and the emotional toll of caregiving and emotional labor. Many clients come in feeling depleted, self critical, or disconnected from their needs after years of prioritizing others, navigating unsafe relationships, or internalizing messages about worth, productivity, or responsibility. Therapy offers a space to slow down, understand how these patterns formed, and begin relating to yourself with more compassion, clarity, and choice.
My approach is trauma informed and grounded in the understanding that many struggles labeled as anxiety, depression, or burnout are understandable responses to long term stress, relational trauma, and systemic imbalance. We look at how family roles, cultural expectations, and relationship dynamics have shaped your nervous system and sense of self. This often includes exploring early attachment experiences, boundaries, emotional safety, and the ways power and gender norms have influenced your relationships at work, at home, and in intimate partnerships. The goal is not to blame yourself or others, but to increase awareness and flexibility so that new ways of relating become possible.
I integrate EMDR therapy, IFS informed parts work, and somatic approaches to support healing at both emotional and nervous system levels. This allows us to work not only with insight, but with the body based patterns that keep people feeling stuck, hypervigilant, shut down, or emotionally reactive. Sessions are collaborative and paced with care, especially for clients with complex trauma or long histories of stress. We focus on building internal safety, strengthening boundaries, and supporting a more trusting relationship with your body and intuition.
Womxn’s therapy is ultimately about restoring balance, agency, and self trust in a world that often asks women and femmes to overfunction, minimize themselves, or stay quiet about harm. I work with clients of all sexual orientations and relationship structures, and I welcome those who are questioning, redefining, or expanding their identities. Therapy becomes a place to tell the truth about your experience, reconnect with your values, and move toward a life that feels more aligned, sustainable, and emotionally grounded. I offer in person therapy in San Francisco and virtual therapy throughout California.
Women’s Therapy for Stress, Relationships, Fertility, and Life Transitions
Many women seek therapy due to the cumulative impact of job stress, emotional labor, and long-term pressure to perform, adapt, and stay regulated in environments that are not always supportive. Work-related stress may include burnout, imposter syndrome, underemployment, navigating male-dominated spaces, or managing subtle but persistent gender-based expectations. For some, career stress is tied to identity and self-worth. For others, it reflects the exhaustion of holding too much responsibility for too long. Women’s therapy offers space to examine how chronic work stress affects your nervous system, sense of agency, and overall well-being, and to explore changes that support sustainability rather than constant endurance.
Relationship Stress and Boundaries
Relationship stress is another common reason women come to therapy. This can include navigating unequal partnerships, recovering from emotionally unhealthy or narcissistic relationships, or feeling conflicted between the desire for connection and the need for self-protection. Many women have learned to prioritize harmony over honesty or caretaking over mutuality. Even supportive relationships can feel stressful when boundaries, communication, or emotional labor feel uneven. In therapy, we look at how relationship patterns connect to attachment history, family dynamics, and cultural messaging about what women are expected to tolerate. The work focuses on clarity, boundaries, and strengthening self-trust while remaining relationally engaged.
Caretaking, Emotional Labor, and Burnout
Caretaking is a frequent and often invisible source of stress. Women are commonly socialized to manage not only practical responsibilities but also the emotional needs of children, partners, parents, workplaces, and communities. Over time, this level of responsibility can lead to resentment, guilt, emotional numbness, or burnout. Women’s therapy provides a space to name the real weight of caretaking roles, explore limits without shame, and reconnect with parts of yourself that exist outside of obligation. This work is especially important for women who feel responsible for holding families or systems together at the expense of their own needs.
Fertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Reproductive Decision Making
Fertility and reproductive experiences are another area where many women seek support. This may include infertility, pregnancy loss, egg freezing, medical interventions, ambivalence about parenthood, or grief related to timing and life paths. These experiences often involve layered emotions such as sadness, anger, isolation, and uncertainty, and are frequently navigated without enough space to process them. Therapy can support emotional integration, help you make sense of complex decisions, and reduce the sense of being alone in experiences that deeply affect identity and self-worth.
Singledom, Dating, and Nontraditional Timelines
Singledom and living outside traditional relationship timelines can also bring stress, grief, or self-doubt. Many women internalize cultural narratives that frame partnership as a measure of success or stability. Therapy offers a place to examine these beliefs, explore what you genuinely want in relationships, and build a sense of worth that is not dependent on relationship status. This work often supports greater confidence, autonomy, and emotional grounding.
What Women’s Therapy Can Support
Across concerns such as job stress, relationship stress, fertility challenges, caretaking, and singledom, a shared theme is chronic overextension. Women’s therapy is not about helping you tolerate unreasonable conditions. It is about understanding what you are responding to, restoring balance, and supporting choices that align with your values, limits, and long-term well-being. The aim is increased clarity, emotional steadiness, and the ability to live with more ease and intention.
Women’s Therapy FAQ (San Francisco, Marin + Online in California)
1) What is women’s therapy?
Women’s therapy is individual therapy that centers the emotional, relational, and systemic experiences that often shape women’s lives. It can support concerns such as relationship stress, work stress, caretaking roles, trauma, fertility issues, anxiety, depression, and burnout.
2) Who is women’s therapy for?
Women’s therapy is for cisgender women, transgender women, and femmes of all sexual orientations whose experiences have been shaped by gendered expectations, relationships, and power dynamics. You do not need to have a specific diagnosis to benefit.
3) Why do you use the term womxn instead of women?
While many people search for “women’s therapy,” I use the spelling womxn to signal inclusion of transgender women, nonbinary femmes, and others whose lives are shaped by gendered experiences. It reflects an understanding that there is no single way to be a woman or femme.
4) What issues can women’s therapy help with?
Women’s therapy can help with relationship stress, narcissistic abuse recovery, codependency, career burnout, job stress, financial pressure, fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, caretaking exhaustion, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life transitions.
5) How is women’s therapy different from general individual therapy?
Women’s therapy intentionally considers how gender roles, emotional labor, and cultural expectations affect mental health. This lens can help clients understand stress, anxiety, or burnout as understandable responses rather than personal failure.
6) Can women’s therapy help with relationship stress?
Yes. Women’s therapy often focuses on boundaries, communication, attachment patterns, and recovery from unhealthy or emotionally abusive relationships. It can support women who feel stuck in people pleasing or unequal dynamics.
7) Do you work with narcissistic abuse in women’s therapy?
Yes. I work with women recovering from narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, gaslighting, and chronic criticism. Therapy can help process relational trauma, reduce triggers, and rebuild self trust and clarity.
8) Can women’s therapy help with fertility and reproductive issues?
Yes. I support women navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, egg freezing, medical trauma, ambivalence about parenthood, and grief related to reproductive decisions and timing.
9) Is women’s therapy only about relationships or motherhood?
No. Women’s therapy also addresses career stress, financial stress, identity development, singledom, trauma, anxiety, depression, and burnout. Many clients seek support for the cumulative impact of multiple stressors.
10) Can women’s therapy help with job stress and burnout?
Yes. Women’s therapy can help with burnout, imposter syndrome, overworking, underemployment, and the emotional toll of navigating gendered expectations at work.
11) Is women’s therapy trauma informed?
Yes. My approach to women’s therapy is trauma informed and grounded in understanding how chronic stress, relational trauma, and early experiences affect the nervous system and emotional patterns.
12) What therapeutic approaches do you use in women’s therapy?
I integrate EMDR therapy, IFS-informed parts work, and somatic approaches, along with relational and psychodynamic therapy, to support both emotional insight and nervous system regulation.
13) Do you work with LGBTQ+ women and femmes?
Yes. I work with women and femmes of all sexual orientations and relationship structures, including those who are questioning, exploring identity, or redefining their lives outside traditional roles.
14) Can women’s therapy help with anxiety and depression?
Yes. Anxiety and depression often show up alongside trauma, chronic stress, caretaking roles, or relational strain. Therapy focuses on understanding root causes and restoring balance and agency.
15) Do you offer women’s therapy in San Francisco?
Yes. I offer in-person women’s therapy in San Francisco.
16) Do you offer online women’s therapy in California?
Yes. I offer virtual women’s therapy throughout California, which can be a flexible option for clients balancing work, caretaking, or distance.
17) How long does women’s therapy last?
The length of therapy depends on your goals, history, and current stress level. Some clients work short term around a specific issue, while others choose longer-term therapy for deeper patterns.
18) How do I know if women’s therapy is right for me?
Women’s therapy may be a good fit if you feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, disconnected from yourself, or want a therapist who understands gendered experiences without extensive explanation.
19) Is women’s therapy inclusive of all identities?
Yes. Women’s therapy in my practice is inclusive of cisgender women, transgender women, and femmes, and is affirming of diverse identities, relationships, and life paths.
20) How do I get started with women’s therapy?
You can get started by reaching out to schedule a consultation. This is a chance to ask questions, share what you’re looking for, and see if working together feels like a good fit.
