Where Your Pain Isn’t Pathologized — It’s Contextualized
Therapy Addressing the Challenges Women Face
“Women’s Issues” encompasses so much more than perinatal and postpartum mental health. Therapy for women addresses the systems that actively and disproportionately harm women.
Women face unique challenges due to their gender, coinciding with other aspects of their identities, like race, sexuality, and disability.
Women are more likely to experience gendered violence and sexual assault.
Women are more likely to be gaslit in relationships and in institutions.
Women are more likely to be taught to be selfless and to give often to others, which can lead in higher rates of burnout, people-pleasing, and dissatisfaction in life and relationships.
Women often have more invisible and mental labor expected of them, such as planning for and caring for the household, disproportionate childcare, and emotional labor.
Women’s health issues are more often dismissed, invalidated, or misdiagnosed and mistreated.
Women face more discrimination, pay inequity, and inattention in the workplace compared to cis-male counterparts.
A Space for You to Be Fully Human
So many of the challenges women bring into the therapy room aren’t just “personal problems.” They’re deeply shaped by systems that have told us to be small, silent, or self-sacrificing.
At Rosebud Psychotherapy, I specialize in supporting women who are navigating not only personal stressors, but also the weight of systemic issues that disproportionately impact women and those socialized as women. If you’ve ever thought “What’s wrong with me?”—I invite you to consider this: Maybe nothing. Maybe you’re responding exactly as a human would in an unjust system.
In this space, you don’t need to apologize for being sensitive, tired, angry, messy, brilliant, or unsure. You get to be fully human—and fully supported.
How We Address This in Therapy:
We name the systems (patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, etc.) that contribute to burnout, self-doubt, and trauma. You are not overreacting—you're responding.
We untangle people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional labor from your worth.
We build boundaries and relational tools rooted in your values, not guilt.
We process trauma (both individual and collective) with gentleness and care.
We develop nervous system regulation tools to respond to chronic stress.
We explore your identity—outside the roles you've been handed.
We create space for rest, joy, pleasure, and self-compassion. Not as luxuries, but as forms of resistance and healing.
What to Expect to Gain from Therapy for Women
Relief from chronic self-blame and internalized “shoulds”
More clarity and confidence in your relationships and boundaries
A deeper understanding of how your past experiences connect to present patterns
Language to describe your needs—and tools to advocate for them
Permission to rest, take up space, and stop proving your worth
A sense of wholeness that includes your softness, strength, and complexity