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Women’s Issues and Therapy for Women
As women, we face unique struggles.
Our society often sends us mixed messages that make it difficult to tune into our own voices, needs, and intuition about who we want to be and what kind of lives we want to create.
Sometimes it feels like there’s no way to please everyone.
And the answer is you can’t.
That’s why we will help you learn to prioritize yourself and discover your own values—your needs, your wants, your dreams, and not anyone else’s.
We’ll help you tune out the noise and get in touch with yourself.
Because of rigid societal standards, it’s not surprising why so many women are plagued by stress and depression.
Sad fact: women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with depression.
At My LA Therapy, we understand there isn’t just one way to be a woman.
Women have totally different values, temperaments, needs, and ways of expressing ourselves.
And there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to women’s therapy either.
That’s why your therapy sessions will be tailored specifically to your individual needs and experiences.
We understand that between work, family, children, relationships, and the inconsistent ups and downs, life can be challenging.
We will help you begin to become aware of unconscious forces that may shape your behavior and mental health in ways that aren’t serving you.
As we help you make the unconscious conscious, you will be empowered to face your life in a new way and create the life you really want.
As therapists, we guide you in seeing the blind spots that are getting in the way of you becoming your best self so you can find greater freedom, peace, and clarity.
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While we are here to help you meet your personal goals, some examples of common goals for female-focused therapy are to help women develop skills such as assertiveness, self-empowerment, self-compassion, self-worth, and inner strength.
These skills can be very important in the future for relationships, self-love, and tasks such as finding a job or asking for a raise.
Your therapy sessions can also help you find your voice, build self-esteem, increase body confidence, create positive relationships, and become the best mother and role model for your children you can be.
Another important part of therapy involves learning how to set boundaries for yourself, learning how to say no when you are uncomfortable, and defending yourself from unwanted situations.
Raising your self-confidence as a woman is absolutely crucial in our male-dominated society, and it may be hard to do so by yourself.
That’s where we come in.
Some other issues that may be discussed in therapy are conditions such as life transitions, postpartum depression, infertility, motherhood, depression, and eating disorders.
Life transitioning, in particular, can bring up many difficulties.
Whether you are a young adult, middle-aged woman, or an older woman, moving onto the next phase of life may feel daunting.
Whether you’re getting married, having kids, starting a new career path, leaving a long-term career or relationship, having your kids leave home, or experiencing the first stages of menopause, these transitions may feel sudden and jarring.
Therapy is a useful tool to help make these life changes a little bit smoother.
We have a well-rounded team of strong, professional women at My LA Therapy and we’ll be happy to help you every step of the way.
Research-based, personalized therapy.
At My LA Therapy, our warm and experienced therapists specialize in anxiety, depression, trauma, & relationships.
More About Women’s Issues
Society is still evolving from its patriarchal history which dictates how the “ideal woman” should act and look.
Today, these expectations of women are perpetuated through social media, causing anxiety and unrealistic standards.
Facetune and other photoshop apps have made it tremendously easy for one to alter their entire physical appearance with just a click of a button, and it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to tell the real from the fake.
Social media influencers perpetuate the image of the ideal female while professionals in the industry post photoshopped pics of already beautiful models, which lowers the self-esteem of the “average person.”
Beauty standards have become more and more unattainable as society continues to become more and more unrealistic.
Eventually, these self-esteem issues may lead to depression, anxiety, or the development of an eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia.
See our links to our dedicated pages to learn more about Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Trauma, Relationship Issues, and Self-Esteem.
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At My LA Therapy, our highly-vetted Women’s Issues experts are selected not only for their clinical acumen but for who they are.
Our Methods for Women’s Therapy
Therapy can successfully improve your life by helping you minimize your anxiety, identifying and changing underlying thought and behavioral patterns that contribute to your struggles, and providing you with strategies to decrease discomfort while restoring an overall sense of peace.
To experience true and lasting joy in our life, we must face and conquer our pain by healing our underlying trauma and confronting our fears.
See the About Therapy page for a deeper look into this process.
Our evidence-based, scientifically proven interventions are demonstrated by research to be effective in addressing a wide range of mental health issues faced by women.
Learn more about our empirically based therapy modalities by visiting our Methods page.
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Want to talk?
At My LA Therapy, our warm and experienced anxiety therapy experts offer research-based, personalized care.
What Our Clients Say
“With your help, I’ve finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed, in a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of decidedly less-terrifying laundry I’ve avoided for too long that just needs to be aired out and put away. Which is definitely a lot easier than monster slaying. Thank you for shedding light in the dark places I was too afraid to face alone.”
Anonymous Client
“After every session I come away feeling better prepared to start shining light into shadows I’ve hustled past for a long, long time… some rational ones, but a lot more aren’t. Shame is such a stealthy master; He’s been the monkey on my back for a long time. You totally called it. I’m so grateful for your guidance and skill and although sometimes I may shuffle and others I may leap, after our sessions I always feel like I’m moving forward.”
Anonymous Client
“I want to thank you again for your continued help and expertise, and more specifically for yesterday’s learning opportunity about how I can communicate more effectively. After your ultimately appreciated prodding you made me feel comfortable with the idea that expressing confusion or even doubt can serve as valuable conversation-assets, and I look forward to moving forward without those those self-inflicted parameters.”
Anonymous Client
“Just wanted to share that yesterday’s session with you, and a long, productive dinner table conversation with my wife last night, started to uncover a huge gap between perception and reality in my understanding of the status I held in our marriage. Our session opened my eyes to the fact that the inequity I’ve long felt comes from a place of assumed unworthiness. I’m so thankful for this journey we are taking together, with your help, towards deeper, more productive understanding.”
Anonymous Client
“I have worked with many therapists in the past, but this is the first time I feel that I am making changes that are deep and lasting. Her counseling has truly helped me become free, even from things I wasn’t aware were affecting me. Brooke integrates many different approaches to provide balanced and effective therapy.”
Anonymous Client
“You are truly an amazing person. I am so grateful for your sincerity and kindness– big-hearted and deep soulfulness. You are incredibly intuitive, insightful and wise. You are a gifted listener and a powerful speaker, passionate and genuine.”
Anonymous Client
“Brooke is kind and warm, but not afraid to challenge you. She is caring, authentic and compassionate as well as intelligent and clinically skilled. Brooke possesses great wisdom and intuition, which she balances with knowledge and skill.”
Anonymous Client
“Brooke has really helped me to overcome the problems in my life that I was starting to believe couldn’t change. I now understand where my depression and anxiety came from and they are no longer a part of my life. I now feel a sense of peace and purpose.”
Anonymous Client
“I’ve recommended Brooke to so many of my friends and colleagues, I’m starting to feel like her personal cheerleader. But it can’t be helped. When I look back on the past year, without a doubt the most difficult year of my life, I can’t believe how far I’ve come.”
Anonymous Client
“Brooke has been an incredibly positive influence in my life. I first came to Brooke in the midst of a divorce from my high school sweetheart and best friend. With Brooke’s gentle guidance and supervision, I began the most intense period of personal growth in my life.”
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