Therapy for Perimenopause and Menopause

Menopause and the many years leading up to it (perimenopause) are natural transitions in a woman’s life (and people of all genders), but they are by no means easy!

As your body’s hormones prepare to shift away from the potential to reproduce, they fluctuate wildly, causing a hormonal roller coaster of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms.

It can be difficult to understand all that is happening in your body (much like puberty!), and unfortunately it can be equally, if not more difficult, to find a provider who is informed and up to date about perimenopause/menopause and evidence-based ways you can find relief.

That’s why finding healthcare providers, including therapists, who truly understand and specialize in perimenopause/menopause is so important!

To learn more, read my Ultimate Guide to Perimenopause.

Are you…

  • Miserable with being a sweaty, crabby, hot flash of a human?

  • Exhausted yet unable to sleep well?

  • Completely OVER doctors dismissing your concerns or working with you to find effective ways to manage your symptoms?

  • Struggling with brain fog, unable to remember what you were saying or what you were looking for?

  • Struggling to accept changes to the appearance of your skin, hair, and body (and let’s not even speak of the unwanted zits and facial hair)?

  • Worried about changes in labs like cholesterol?

  • Questioning your own sense of reality because of odd changes in your sense of smell, changing body odor, ringing in your ears, or joint pain?

  • Struggling to not take out intense rage and irritability on those closest to you, unable to tolerate their annoying behaviors like usual, and can’t even stand being around yourself?

  • Having mood swings like a teenager or feeling like the volume on your PMS has been cranked to the max?

  • Frustrated by pain during sex or a change in libido?

  • Overwhelmed by all the pressure to defy aging and unable to sort through all of the conflicting information on how to best manage symptoms?

  • Completely pissed about our country’s utter lack of caring at all about women’s health, or those with diverse genders? If men went through menopause, there would be tomes written on how to effectively manage it and all doctors would not only listen, but be well equipped to treat it.

Therapy can’t alter hormones or eliminate a natural part of the human life cycle.

So what can it do?

Therapy for Perimenopause and
Menopause Can Help You:

  • Build self-trust skills by listening and validating your experience - your feelings are valid and you aren’t alone!

  • Learn effective strategies to navigate healthcare, including how to find informed providers, skills to help you effectively self-advocate with doctors, and ways to set boundaries around what you do not want to discuss or pursue

  • Understand what you are experiencing so that you can find effective ways to accept and manage your symptoms so they are not taking over your life

  • Learn strategies to mitigate the impact to your sex life and maybe even improve it!

  • Connect with self-compassion so that you can age with grace, a healthy relationship with food and body, and break the cycle of women and femmes criticizing themselves throughout their lifespans, giving younger women and people with diverse genders a healthier example than what you had.

  • Build sustainable and supportive self-care habits for a lifetime of emotional and physical wellness

  • Improve your sleep

  • Manage mood swings and regulate your emotions so that you feel more balanced and in control

  • Find ways to speak up about what is bothering you without rage taking over in a destructive way that harms relationships

  • Roll with all the changes (even connect with the positive changes), rather than feeling steamrolled by them.

  • Grieve your changing body and loss of your reproductive years, while exploring new opportunities and the opening yourself to the best parts of aging, like living a more values-aligned life, getting comfortable in your old skin, releasing old patterns that no longer serve you, and overall giving less fucks!

Are You Ready?

Start Perimenopause and Menopause Therapy in Los Angeles, CA

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It is so important to build yourself a healthcare team of professionals who truly understand perimenopause and menopause. You deserve to be listened to, taken seriously, and supported as you navigate this years-long, important life change. While it can feel like a hormonal roller coaster that is difficult to cope with, therapy can help ease your path, help you manage symptoms effectively, and become the best version of yourself yet. If you’d like to start feeling better as you go through perimenopause or menopause, follow these steps:

  1. Reach out for a consultation at Well Woman Psychology

  2. Meet with your Perimenopause and Menopause Therapist.

  3. Breathe a sigh of relief as you start to feel heard and learn to cope effectively with perimenopause and menopause

Other Services We Offer in Los Angeles, CA

At Well Woman Psychology in Manhattan Beach, CA, you will be listened to and taken seriously about your experience of perimenopause and menopause. I want to support you and whatever challenges you face as a woman. That is why I offer a variety of therapy services for especially focused on women, including therapy for body image issues, sex therapy, individual relationship therapy, grief, trauma therapy, and PTSD treatment. As a therapist for women, I provide services to support women’s health, such as therapy for miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and new moms, and I provide EMDR. I am licensed to support clients in the states of California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Washington through online therapy.