Therapist-turned-coach for women in perimenopause and menopause who want their SELF back.
Here's the thing about your symptoms:
You're not anxious because something is wrong with you. You don't have early dementia because you can't remember things. You're not crazy because your emotions are swinging all over the place.
You're feeling that way because you're carrying too much, sleeping badly, running on hormones that are doing something completely new, and nobody around you seems to notice.
You are exactly who I want to help.
If you're in perimenopause or menopause and you're exhausted, overwhelmed, snapping at people you love, lying awake at 3am, and wondering when you get to feel like yourself again —
welcome here, you're in the right place.
All of the work is one-on-one, on your schedule, available anywhere in the world. No insurance, no waitlist, no nonsense.
Imagine what becomes possible:
You stop feeling like you're failing at your own life.
You understand what's happening in your body — and you know how to talk to your doctor about it in a way that actually gets you heard, even when the medical system would rather hand you an antidepressant and send you home.
You recognize your own feelings before they hijack your day. You have grace for your moods instead of guilt. You stop apologizing for taking up space.
You get clear on what you actually want — and what you're only doing because someone decided your time and energy were available for the taking. You learn to tell the difference. And then you learn to say no.
You set boundaries. Not because a podcast told you to practice self-care, but because you know what matters to you and you're done letting other people's demands crowd it out.
The exhaustion lifts. The loneliness lifts. You feel like yourself — informed, capable, and a lot less willing to put up with nonsense.
That's what we're working toward. It starts with a free 20-minute discovery call.
If you are a high-functioning, high-achieving woman in your 40s- or -50s
who has spent decades being extraordinarily competent and now, for the first time in your life,
feel like you are failing at everything simultaneously, you're in the right place.
You may be
✓ impacted by perimenopause and menopause with its brain fog, hot flashes, joint aches, sex drive changes, and sleep issues
✓ receiving no help or care for that natural life development
✓ trying to take care of your kids and your parents
✓ successful at work in a job that keeps asking more of you
✓ generous with your time for your community
and you may be wondering
"what happened to me?"
Let's find you again.
This is what relief looks like
You will understand what is actually happening in your body — the hormonal shifts, the sleep disruption, the mood changes, the brain fog — and you will stop wondering if something is wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you.
You will know how to talk to your doctor, what to ask for, and how to find a provider who will actually help you if your current one won't.
You will have concrete tools for managing the anxiety and the mood swings — not just white-knuckling through them.
You will have real skills for asking for what you need — from your partner, your kids, your coworkers, whoever keeps putting things on your plate without asking first.
You will get clear on what is actually your priority versus what is someone else's agenda or values. And you will have sustainable, realistic ways to protect that — habit building, time management, and boundaries that hold.
And then — the part I love most — you will find your way back to the thing your heart has been waiting for. The artistic outlet you dropped somewhere in the last decade. The comfy corner with the pile of books to be read. The walk in the woods that used to restore you. We create the space, and you fill it with what actually matters to you.
How we get there:
A free discovery call to start — a real conversation to figure out what kind of support makes sense for you.
Thoughts that may have stopped you from getting help:
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"I've tried things before and they didn't work."
This is very specific — you found me, and I'm here for you. I'm a woman in menopause, dealing with all those symptoms. I'm also a mental health therapist with 20 years of experience who loves to learn more ways to help people. I've put that all together into support for managing your overwhelm, your symptoms, your anxiety, your life.
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"I should be able to handle this myself."
You've handled everything else. Of course that's where your brain goes. But you don't have to keep doing that. When the gas tank is empty, you have got to pull over and put fuel in the tank. You've done too much already, and deserve better than holding your breath and hoping fumes are going to get you through the rest.
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"I don't have time."
A Say What? session is one hour. The Unanxious package is six hours over six weeks. Additional one-on-one coaching can happen exactly as you need. But each of those hours will save you hours in the rest of your life... of worrying, fretting, forgetting, ruminating, snapping, and then apologizing and doing more ruminating.
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"Can I afford this?"
Say What? is $200. Individual sessions are $125. No insurance paperwork, no waitlist, no commute. It's a great investment in having help and a plan for your life challenges.
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"Is this therapy?"
No. Coaching is forward-focused and skills-based — we're building tools, not processing the past. But I bring a lot of experience and insight to that forward focus and skill building. I was able to create my Unanxious program because after 20 years of working with people, I realized that by session six, my clients really saw a difference in how they were dealing with their anxiety.
When I told my doctor that my shoulders were killing me, and that I was dealing with hotflashes, she shrugged. "You're getting older." I needed help, and that was not it. I thought, I'm finding help, and then I'm going to share that with other women. No one else has to go through this.
I have been working as a mental health therapist for 20 years. I got my Masters in Counseling and Psychology at Lesley University in Cambridge MA in 2006, took some time off to have my sweet baby girl, then dove into counseling work with jobs at substance abuse and community mental health agencies.
Two wonderful colleagues and I started a group practice in 2016, and then I went completely solo, completely telehealth in 2020. I love the flexibility that telehealth offers folks on a quick lunch break, or out in an underserved low-population area — or now, with coaching, seeing anyone in the world.
I use the practicality of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy plus a wide range of other practices, from mindfulness to Attachment Theory, Internal Family Systems, and energy practices like Emotional Freedom Technique.
And I bring a feminist, antiracist view to the work. If you're a woman or person of color, the world — and our American capitalist patriarchal society — is genuinely anxiety-provoking and depressing. That's not a symptom. That's an accurate read of the situation.
So when I got blown off by my (female!) doctor, I was not having it. I read up on and researched menopause, even though there wasn't a lot out there, and learned: YEP, you're going through it. And YEP, you need some help.
Put together decades of mental health experience, plus an antipatriarchy lens, and some raging hot flashes, and you have me — ready to make sure no woman feels lousy, left behind, overwhelmed, and unhelped.
Let's roll up our sleeves AND kick up our heels. You'll get grounded in what is going on, empowered to get better medical care, build skills to cope with mood swings, create boundaries for your peace, and add meaningful joy back into your life.