Menopause · in person, online, Phone, Messaging
Menopause Counselling
For the years when your body, mood and sense of self all seem to change at once. Therapy that takes the emotional side of menopause as seriously as the physical.
Free introductory call · no obligation
If this is you
More than hot flushes.
The physical symptoms get the airtime. What brings women to therapy is usually everything else: rage that arrives out of nowhere, anxiety in a life that used to feel manageable, brain fog that shakes your confidence at work, flat low mood and grief for a version of yourself that feels out of reach.
Menopause and depression can look alike and feed each other and perimenopause can start these changes years before anyone names them. Many women tell me the hardest part is not the symptoms; it is not being taken seriously or being handed a prescription when what they needed was to talk.
This is also a stage when everything else piles up at once: teenagers at home, ageing parents, careers at their most demanding. Therapy makes room for all of it, not just the hormones.
How therapy helps
Steadying the ground.
My approach is integrative. Practically, that means CBT-informed tools for the anxiety and low mood, deeper work on identity, loss and what this chapter can become and somatic awareness for a time of life when the body insists on being part of the conversation.
Therapy works alongside your GP or menopause specialist, never instead of them. Whether or not HRT is part of your picture is a medical conversation; what we do here is the part medicine does not reach.
Sessions are online, by phone, face to face or outdoors as walk and talk therapy in Kew, which many women at this stage find the most natural fit of all: moving, outside, side by side.
Sometimes both and the honest answer is that untangling them matters. Low mood driven by hormonal change, life circumstances and depression respond to different kinds of help. We look at the whole picture together and I will always encourage a conversation with your GP alongside our work.
No. Perimenopause is often the most turbulent stretch and the least acknowledged. If your mood, anxiety or sense of self has shifted and you suspect this is why, that is exactly the right time to talk.
No and that is deliberate. Menopause rarely arrives alone; it lands in the middle of a life. As an integrative psychotherapist I work with whatever it is tangled up with, from relationships and work stress to longstanding patterns that this stage has brought to the surface.
Ready when you are.
A free introductory call, no forms and no obligation. Just a quiet conversation to see whether working together feels right.