Therapy for Women in Goodyear, AZ

Is this you?

• You are the one who remembers the appointments, the birthdays, the permission slips, and the fact that you are out of milk, and nobody else seems to notice it is a job.
• You say yes before the question is finished, and then you are quietly resentful for days.
• You were recently told, or you suspect, that you have ADHD, and it explains more of your life than you want it to.
• You are in your forties or fifties, and something has shifted in your patience, your sleep, your sense of who you are, or all three.
• You keep showing up and nobody would guess anything is wrong, which is exactly the problem.

What we can work on

Remembering everything for everyone. The planning, tracking, and anticipating that keeps a household running is work, and in most homes it lands on one person. It does not show up on any list, so it does not get credit, and it never ends. Women describe it as a browser with forty tabs open. Therapy does not close the tabs for you, but it helps you see which ones are yours, which ones you picked up by default, and how to hand some back without a fight.

People-pleasing. If saying no leaves you feeling guilty for days, you probably learned early that other people’s comfort was your responsibility. That habit served you once. Now it costs you.

ADHD found late. ADHD in girls often looks like daydreaming or forgetfulness, so it gets mistaken for a personality trait. A lot of women only put the pieces together as adults, sometimes when their own child is diagnosed, and the answer brings both relief and grief.

Midlife shifts. Midlife can bring perimenopause, aging parents, kids leaving or not leaving, and the question of what you want now that the years of being needed every minute are changing shape. This is not an emergency. It is a threshold, and it helps to have somewhere to think about it out loud.

Running on empty. Some depression hides behind competence. You get up, you do everything, and inside there is nothing.

My approach

I use three approaches, and I match them to what you are dealing with rather than running everyone through the same program.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps you question the thoughts that drive you, like “I should be able to handle this,” and it is direct and practical. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches skills for strong feelings and hard conversations, and it is where the boundary work lives. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps with painful memories that still feel fresh, and it comes in when there is something older underneath the exhaustion, which there often is. On the free call, I can suggest where I would start and explain my reasons.

I am also a woman who has sat on the other side of the room, and I do not need the backstory explained to me before we can start.

Sessions that fit a full week

A free hour can be hard to find, so my openings lean toward afternoons and evenings, at the office on three days and by video on four. Plenty of people do a session from a parked car during a practice or a lesson, with headphones in. It counts. You can find the office on Litchfield Road near the I-10, and parking costs nothing. Palm Valley and Litchfield Park are minutes away, and Avondale and Estrella are not much farther.

Fees and insurance

Sessions are 50–55 minutes and cost $100 without insurance. I am in-network with Aetna/Banner, Cigna, Curative, and United Healthcare, and I take Cigna and United Healthcare employee assistance program (EAP) sessions, which are the free sessions some employers cover. The full details are on the insurance and fees page, and if your plan is not listed, ask me on the free call and I will tell you what your options are.

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