Therapy for Women in Los Angeles, CA
Supporting you on the journey to nurture, empower, and connect with yourself.
Do you feel disconnected from yourself and others? Do you feel like you are pouring from an empty cup and have nothing left for yourself? Do you feel like you aren’t enough or aren’t doing enough?
Learn how to stop abandoning yourself and begin to fill up your own cup.
Therapy for Women at Flourishment Psychology
My professional passion is helping women lean into their big, beautiful lives. I work with women on a variety of issues—from work anxiety to dating to relationship issues to worthiness. These are ambitious women. High-achieving women. Soulful women. Women who want more from their love lives, their careers, their relationships with their friends and family, and their roles as mothers. All of them are badass women on a journey to quiet the shame gremlin, to take up space, to listen to their intuition, and attune to their inner voice and authentic selves.
Therapy for women at Flourishment Psychology helps women:
Attune to their inner voice, validate their needs, and find ways to effectively get their needs met.
Tap into their Feminine Energy and find a balance between force and flow.
Find the courage to step into vulnerability in order to connect more deeply in their relationships to themselves and others.
Identify the unhelpful narratives that lead to self-sabotage, fear, and disconnection.
Develop your inner sturdiness and sense of security so that you feel steadier regardless of what others say or do.
Understand and heal traumatic responses related to childhood experiences, toxic relationships, attachment wounds, or single events.
Heal Your Relationship with Yourself
Our relationship with others always begins with our relationship to ourselves. I work with women who want to feel sturdier in themselves, to feel more confident and secure, and to live their lives from a place of known worthiness. The work I do as a therapist for women typically involves developing an understanding of your attachment style, which is the way you relate to yourself, others, and the world, and it usually originates in your relationship with your primary caregivers or parents. Knowing your attachment style can open up your mind in terms in understanding why you act a certain way, need certain things, and are triggered by certain behaviors.
Your attachment style is also the thing that underlies your sense of self-worth and self-esteem. When in an unhealthy place, your inner dialogue may sound like, “I’m not good enough,” “I’m not important,” or “I’m unlovable.” In our work together, we will identify your core wounds and negative beliefs, and from there work to shift those beliefs to be more balanced, positive, and affirming.
Therapy for Women Taps into Feminine Energy
Women’s counseling with me can also include exploring feminine energy, ego work, and inner child work. Women often begin working with me wanting to seek to tap more into their feminine energy. Being a woman in today’s society can be challenging. We are pulled to be independent, self-sufficient, and goal-oriented in our single lives and in our professional lives. Often these strengths can create challenges in our dating or romantic lives as we feel pulled to micro-manage and dominate situations.
Learning to balance force with flow, softness with hardness, giving with receiving allows for more balanced relationships and uncovering the peace that comes with creating space for your partner to support and care for you.
Ego work involves becoming familiar with when your ego raises its ugly head to compensate for feelings of not being enough, not being seen, or feeling unimportant. Results from doing ego work therapy can include feeling more secure in yourself, feeling less reactive, and overall, more confident in a sturdy, not ego-driven, way.
Inner child work involves becoming familiar with the younger parts of you that need care and soothing when they pop up as fears, anxieties and insecurities, and we work to integrate these parts with re-parenting strategies.
Let’s talk about worthiness.
As women, we seem to be conditioned by society to be vessels of unconditional love and from that vessel, we are trained to pour endless amounts of understanding, care, time, and energy for others. Be selfless, be there no matter what, be supportive, and be NICE. These messages create an expectation that when we are being our “BEST”, we prioritize others by soothing them and meeting their needs often at the expense of our own physical or emotional needs. When placed in these roles in our romantic, personal, and professional relationships, the messages we receive are that our needs are not worth meeting or even that we should feel guilty for having needs.
Therapy for women at Flourishment Psychology supports you to develop awareness of societal expectations of women, question the patriarchy, and empowers you from an intersectional feminist approach. By holding these societal contexts in mind in therapy, we become aware of the unseen pressures on women to conform to roles and expectations that often impact mental health negatively.
Worthiness often grows from the narratives we tell ourselves. When we hold narratives around not being enough, our self-worth suffers and we may have experiences of shame. Shame tells us we haven’t done enough, that we aren’t perfect enough, that we aren’t good enough friends/daughters/mothers/partners, that we aren’t attractive/smart/wealthy/friendly/interesting enough.
Shame tells us that we aren’t enough.
In therapy for women at Flourishment Psychology, we work together to label these shame narratives, address perfectionism, and build shame resilience. Once we have tamed the shame gremlin, we can move to building your self-beliefs around being enough regardless of what you do or what you have.
Believing that you are enough already, regardless of what you do, what you have, or how you perform, is the key to reacquainting yourself with your inherent worthiness.
Healing Our Relationships with Others
At our core, we are relational people. We require social connections to thrive in this world. Therapy for women at Flourishment Psychology can you help feel more connected in your relationships and feel more comfortable showing up authentically in your relationships. This may include working through people pleasing and codependency tendencies, learning to set good boundaries in relationships, and redefining what healthy positive relationships look like for you.
This type of womens counseling also includes developing mindfulness and coping techniques to reduce reactivity and to create space for you to be able to choose your responses. Finally, we can fine tune your communication skills in order to help you feel more effective in asking for help, setting boundaries, voicing your needs, and communicating your feelings.
All of these techniques are geared with the goal of helping you show up more authentically in your relationships and aligned with your values and true self so that you can feel known and connect more deeply.
Empowering You to Have the Career of Your Dreams
I work with women in all types of careers to support them in being the most successful and fulfilled they can be in their professional lives. Whether you are a C-suite executive, a big firm lawyer, an influencer, or work in a creative field, we will work together to tackle imposter syndrome and performance anxiety, build your sense of confidence in your talents and abilities, and help you define the path of what you want in your career. Together, we will work on effective communication in the workplace, leadership strategies, and building your confidence to take up space, whether that is going for a promotion or negotiating a raise.
Start Therapy for Women in Los Angeles, CA
You do not have to live a life feeling unworthy and disconnected. Let’s work together to start you on your healing journey to empowerment, worthiness, and connection. Get started with me, a therapist for women, by following these easy steps:
Reach out to schedule a free 30-minute consultation with me at Flourishment Psychology.
If we feel like we are a good match, we will schedule your first appointment.
Begin thriving in your big, beautiful life!
Other Counseling Services I Offer in Los Angeles, CA
I offer a variety of counseling services for individuals, therapists, and families. Besides therapy for women, I also offer EMDR and trauma therapy, anxiety treatment, corporate wellness training, and clinical training. All of these services are offered in person in Los Angeles or virtually in California and New York.