Women's Issues Therapists in Woodstock
My ideal client is a teenager or young adult who feels overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, or quietly struggling to keep up with life’s demands. They may appear high-functioning on the outside, but internally feel anxious, disconnected, unsure of themselves, or exhausted from holding everything together.
They want a space where they can speak honestly without being judged, analysed, or rushed - especially if they’ve found traditional therapy intimidating or hard to connect with. Often, they don’t need someone to “fix” them; they need help making sense of what they’re feeling and learning how to cope in a way that feels human and real.
My ideal client is a teenager or young adult who feels overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, or quietly struggling to keep up with life’s demands. They may appear high-functioning on the outside, but internally feel anxious, disconnected, unsure of themselves, or exhausted from holding everything together.
They want a space where they can speak honestly without being judged, analysed, or rushed - especially if they’ve found traditional therapy intimidating or hard to connect with. Often, they don’t need someone to “fix” them; they need help making sense of what they’re feeling and learning how to cope in a way that feels human and real.
Drama therapy is an embodied practice that is active and experiential. I have a person-centred approach: radical acceptance, unconditional positive regard with a non-directive stance. I strive to work with the healthy resilience of the individual or group, creating a sense of safety in the present so that personal challenges can be explored in a contained way. Whilst creativity is the foundation for curiosity and expression, the sessions are client led focusing on their preferred mode of expression. The work (with children and adults) is trauma informed and diversity sensitive. Restoring and encouraging agency is ever present
Drama therapy is an embodied practice that is active and experiential. I have a person-centred approach: radical acceptance, unconditional positive regard with a non-directive stance. I strive to work with the healthy resilience of the individual or group, creating a sense of safety in the present so that personal challenges can be explored in a contained way. Whilst creativity is the foundation for curiosity and expression, the sessions are client led focusing on their preferred mode of expression. The work (with children and adults) is trauma informed and diversity sensitive. Restoring and encouraging agency is ever present
I have worked locally and internationally in the field of addiction and trauma. I have supported individuals suffering from addiction and their family's for many years. I also have a special interest in the LGBTQI+ community.
I also offer clinical supervision.
I have worked locally and internationally in the field of addiction and trauma. I have supported individuals suffering from addiction and their family's for many years. I also have a special interest in the LGBTQI+ community.
I also offer clinical supervision.
As an HPCSA- registered Drama Therapist I facilitate a non-judgmental and confidential space where equal attention is given to the body, heart, mind and soul. Arts processes such as images and stories give shape and form to things that are difficult to talk about or to discover new insight in old patterns. Our work is about looking at all the parts that make up the Self, both the healthy ones and the hurting ones. By making space and engaging with these parts we get to better understand ourselves and connect with who we truly are. Arts activities are invited sensitively and when it feels appropriate – no awkward role-plays!
As an HPCSA- registered Drama Therapist I facilitate a non-judgmental and confidential space where equal attention is given to the body, heart, mind and soul. Arts processes such as images and stories give shape and form to things that are difficult to talk about or to discover new insight in old patterns. Our work is about looking at all the parts that make up the Self, both the healthy ones and the hurting ones. By making space and engaging with these parts we get to better understand ourselves and connect with who we truly are. Arts activities are invited sensitively and when it feels appropriate – no awkward role-plays!
Wild Hearts Counselling
Registered Counsellor, BSocSci Hons, HPCSA - Counsellor
2 Endorsed
Serves Area
I'm here to walk alongside you on your journey back home to yourself. I accompany people as they deal with life transitions, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, identity crises, suicide, burnout and trauma, from age 13 and up. To heal is to make whole again. It is calling back all the parts of ourselves that have been lost and exiled, tending to the old wounds, and coming alive to what we have inside of us. It is discovering all of who we are, and finding meaning in all of who we are.
I'm here to walk alongside you on your journey back home to yourself. I accompany people as they deal with life transitions, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, identity crises, suicide, burnout and trauma, from age 13 and up. To heal is to make whole again. It is calling back all the parts of ourselves that have been lost and exiled, tending to the old wounds, and coming alive to what we have inside of us. It is discovering all of who we are, and finding meaning in all of who we are.
My approach is down-to-earth and collaborative and I value the therapeutic relationship as a tool for meaningful change.
My approach is down-to-earth and collaborative and I value the therapeutic relationship as a tool for meaningful change.
I am an experienced therapist and coach, with multiple trainings to support your needs. I started as an art therapist 20 years ago and have actively added to my qualifications and experience. I specialize in grief and loss work, including infertility; as well as working with people struggling with anxiety, trauma and depression. I focus on helping you navigate difficult times, and address problem areas with a focus on wellbeing, using resilience coaching and other tools. I work in a Humanistic, Positive Psychology framework, a whole person, strengths-based approach looking at your mental, physical and emotional health needs.
I am an experienced therapist and coach, with multiple trainings to support your needs. I started as an art therapist 20 years ago and have actively added to my qualifications and experience. I specialize in grief and loss work, including infertility; as well as working with people struggling with anxiety, trauma and depression. I focus on helping you navigate difficult times, and address problem areas with a focus on wellbeing, using resilience coaching and other tools. I work in a Humanistic, Positive Psychology framework, a whole person, strengths-based approach looking at your mental, physical and emotional health needs.
I offer trauma-informed counselling for adults and adolescents in a safe, non-judgmental, and culturally sensitive therapeutic space.
Grounded in active, engaged, and empathic listening, my work is centered on deeply acknowledging the intrinsic value, resilience, and power each person brings into the room.
As a Queer intersectional counsellor, I am body- and sex-positive, Queer-affirming, gender-affirming, kink-aware, and sex-worker safe. I am committed to providing an inclusive space where all parts of you are welcome.
I offer trauma-informed counselling for adults and adolescents in a safe, non-judgmental, and culturally sensitive therapeutic space.
Grounded in active, engaged, and empathic listening, my work is centered on deeply acknowledging the intrinsic value, resilience, and power each person brings into the room.
As a Queer intersectional counsellor, I am body- and sex-positive, Queer-affirming, gender-affirming, kink-aware, and sex-worker safe. I am committed to providing an inclusive space where all parts of you are welcome.
Hello! I'm Tara, a Registered Counsellor practicing in Newlands, CT.
Many of the people I work with are capable adults or teens who look like they’re coping, but internally feel anxious, stuck, or worn down. My services may be a good fit if you are struggling to manage stress, anxiety, trauma responses, chronic pain, or life difficulty and could do with some support to live fully and feel like yourself again.
Counselling with me is warm, down to earth and collaborative. We don’t only talk about what’s difficult - we explore how your nervous system has learned to respond, why some patterns persist, and what you can do to shift them.
Hello! I'm Tara, a Registered Counsellor practicing in Newlands, CT.
Many of the people I work with are capable adults or teens who look like they’re coping, but internally feel anxious, stuck, or worn down. My services may be a good fit if you are struggling to manage stress, anxiety, trauma responses, chronic pain, or life difficulty and could do with some support to live fully and feel like yourself again.
Counselling with me is warm, down to earth and collaborative. We don’t only talk about what’s difficult - we explore how your nervous system has learned to respond, why some patterns persist, and what you can do to shift them.
I strongly believe that everyone deserves quality access to mental healthcare, & I fiercely advocate for my clients. Clients usually come to my practice because something in their inner or outer world isn't working for them, & they are looking for relief, clarity or change. I help them by delivering ethical & evidence-backed counselling techniques to ensure that my clients receive professional & effective counselling. My friendly, outgoing & welcoming nature ensures that clients feel seen, heard, & supported.
I strongly believe that everyone deserves quality access to mental healthcare, & I fiercely advocate for my clients. Clients usually come to my practice because something in their inner or outer world isn't working for them, & they are looking for relief, clarity or change. I help them by delivering ethical & evidence-backed counselling techniques to ensure that my clients receive professional & effective counselling. My friendly, outgoing & welcoming nature ensures that clients feel seen, heard, & supported.
If you’re going through a difficult time, therapy can be a place to pause and feel supported. You don’t need to have everything figured out or know where to start.
This is a neurodiversity-affirming space for children, adolescents and adults, offering a calm, respectful environment where you can unmask and be yourself. Therapy is shaped around your needs and how your mind works, with a strengths-based approach to managing ongoing challenges.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, low mood, emotional overwhelm, or changes in how you see yourself, you don’t have to navigate it alone. We can take things one step at a time.
If you’re going through a difficult time, therapy can be a place to pause and feel supported. You don’t need to have everything figured out or know where to start.
This is a neurodiversity-affirming space for children, adolescents and adults, offering a calm, respectful environment where you can unmask and be yourself. Therapy is shaped around your needs and how your mind works, with a strengths-based approach to managing ongoing challenges.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, low mood, emotional overwhelm, or changes in how you see yourself, you don’t have to navigate it alone. We can take things one step at a time.
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You deserve to have it all—to the careerwoman, mother, student, or daughter. Welcome; this space is for every anxious, stressed-out woman navigating life's challenges.
As a woman, I understand how overwhelming life can become. My goal is to provide quality, affordable, and flexible support in a space rooted in hope, acceptance, and compassion. I work best with women ready to invest in their mental well-being, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps toward lasting change. With a gentle, structured approach, personalized exercises, and practical resources, we'll create a healing journey that is both empowering and sustainable.
You deserve to have it all—to the careerwoman, mother, student, or daughter. Welcome; this space is for every anxious, stressed-out woman navigating life's challenges.
As a woman, I understand how overwhelming life can become. My goal is to provide quality, affordable, and flexible support in a space rooted in hope, acceptance, and compassion. I work best with women ready to invest in their mental well-being, embrace growth, and take meaningful steps toward lasting change. With a gentle, structured approach, personalized exercises, and practical resources, we'll create a healing journey that is both empowering and sustainable.
I am a Clinical and Neuropsychologist with passion for adult mental health. Navigating life’s challenges often requires both compassion and experience. My approach to therapy is holistic and aim to create a supportive and collaborative environment where individuals and families are equipped with tools and understanding to navigate life’s challenges
I am a Clinical and Neuropsychologist with passion for adult mental health. Navigating life’s challenges often requires both compassion and experience. My approach to therapy is holistic and aim to create a supportive and collaborative environment where individuals and families are equipped with tools and understanding to navigate life’s challenges
I provide online support for individuals and couples who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally disconnected, guiding you back to calm and connection. My clients are navigating multiple demands, life transitions and burnout and are often trying to understand recurring patterns in how they cope or relate to others.
I also support women through the uncertainty and grief of infertility, IVF, pregnancy, loss, parenting, low self-esteem and emotionally challenging life transitions like divorce. I strive to provide a safe space where you can find emotional grounding through counselling that feels collaborative, steady and contained.
I provide online support for individuals and couples who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally disconnected, guiding you back to calm and connection. My clients are navigating multiple demands, life transitions and burnout and are often trying to understand recurring patterns in how they cope or relate to others.
I also support women through the uncertainty and grief of infertility, IVF, pregnancy, loss, parenting, low self-esteem and emotionally challenging life transitions like divorce. I strive to provide a safe space where you can find emotional grounding through counselling that feels collaborative, steady and contained.
I am an Industrial Psychologist and Comensa registered Life Coach who specialises in providing transformational life coaching in a safe space to clients of all walks of life and life stages who want to discover their life purpose and/or strive to have more balance, health, wellness, joy, meaning, good relationships, and fulfillment in their lives. I am also trained and experienced in trauma counselling. I have a special interest in teenagers and young adults to help them become equipped for life, and I also assist athletes in improving performance.
I am an Industrial Psychologist and Comensa registered Life Coach who specialises in providing transformational life coaching in a safe space to clients of all walks of life and life stages who want to discover their life purpose and/or strive to have more balance, health, wellness, joy, meaning, good relationships, and fulfillment in their lives. I am also trained and experienced in trauma counselling. I have a special interest in teenagers and young adults to help them become equipped for life, and I also assist athletes in improving performance.
I work with adults living with the lasting effects of childhood trauma, chronic stress, and emotional overwhelm — including those who feel stuck in survival mode, disconnected from themselves, or repeating patterns in relationships and self-worth. Many feel they have lost their identity or never fully developed a sense of who they are.
I also work with women who feel lost — through motherhood, divorce, or simply years of putting everyone else first. My clients want more than insight. They want emotional stability, practical tools, healthier coping, and a grounded sense of direction and purpose — working with both the mind and body.
I work with adults living with the lasting effects of childhood trauma, chronic stress, and emotional overwhelm — including those who feel stuck in survival mode, disconnected from themselves, or repeating patterns in relationships and self-worth. Many feel they have lost their identity or never fully developed a sense of who they are.
I also work with women who feel lost — through motherhood, divorce, or simply years of putting everyone else first. My clients want more than insight. They want emotional stability, practical tools, healthier coping, and a grounded sense of direction and purpose — working with both the mind and body.
So you're in your late 20s, somewhere in your thirties or hitting your 40s. And you grew up believing that everything was going to be epic. And now? It may feel like life is a little too difficult to navigate. Perhaps something is holding you back. Perhaps you just don’t feel really in control, or fulfilled or even content. You have so many of the things you wanted, perhaps a committed relationship, kids, a great job… and yet, it’s all feeling kinda hard and a serious juggle. Perhaps you are looking at yourself and still feel like there are so many unknowns - who am I really? What do I actually want to do? Could I be happier?
So you're in your late 20s, somewhere in your thirties or hitting your 40s. And you grew up believing that everything was going to be epic. And now? It may feel like life is a little too difficult to navigate. Perhaps something is holding you back. Perhaps you just don’t feel really in control, or fulfilled or even content. You have so many of the things you wanted, perhaps a committed relationship, kids, a great job… and yet, it’s all feeling kinda hard and a serious juggle. Perhaps you are looking at yourself and still feel like there are so many unknowns - who am I really? What do I actually want to do? Could I be happier?
You're good at holding it all together, showing up, and keeping going. But privately, you're exhausted, quietly falling apart in ways you haven't told anyone. Maybe you've been through a life change, a loss, the transition into motherhood, or a chapter that took more out of you than expected. You feel overwhelmed, disconnected, like you don't recognise yourself anymore. You're tired of pretending you're fine. You might have thoughts that you're afraid make you a bad person. Knowing something and actually shifting it are two different things.
You're good at holding it all together, showing up, and keeping going. But privately, you're exhausted, quietly falling apart in ways you haven't told anyone. Maybe you've been through a life change, a loss, the transition into motherhood, or a chapter that took more out of you than expected. You feel overwhelmed, disconnected, like you don't recognise yourself anymore. You're tired of pretending you're fine. You might have thoughts that you're afraid make you a bad person. Knowing something and actually shifting it are two different things.
My therapy practice is a containing, curious, creative space for those who are seeking to understand and welcome all the parts of themselves. We often get stuck in patterns and set narratives, and struggle to imagine anything different – for ourselves or our relationships. I cannot provide solutions, but in a confidential and safe therapy relationship, I can walk alongside you as we try to understand your hurt, your health and your healing. I am passionate about working with women and those who are navigating life transitions, loss and shifting intergenerational patterns. My approach is humanistic, trauma-informed, & psychodynamic.
My therapy practice is a containing, curious, creative space for those who are seeking to understand and welcome all the parts of themselves. We often get stuck in patterns and set narratives, and struggle to imagine anything different – for ourselves or our relationships. I cannot provide solutions, but in a confidential and safe therapy relationship, I can walk alongside you as we try to understand your hurt, your health and your healing. I am passionate about working with women and those who are navigating life transitions, loss and shifting intergenerational patterns. My approach is humanistic, trauma-informed, & psychodynamic.
I have been working in mental health since 2008; and my focus areas are Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse / Addiction, Perimenopause and Menopause Counselling. I worked at a mental healthcare clinic for some time and have been in private practice since 2015, offering counselling and hypnotherapy to individuals (over the age of 19). I also offer online / in-person talks for various companies and high schools around Mental Wellbeing. My approach is holistic and person-centred, incorporating principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Motivational Interviewing.
I have been working in mental health since 2008; and my focus areas are Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse / Addiction, Perimenopause and Menopause Counselling. I worked at a mental healthcare clinic for some time and have been in private practice since 2015, offering counselling and hypnotherapy to individuals (over the age of 19). I also offer online / in-person talks for various companies and high schools around Mental Wellbeing. My approach is holistic and person-centred, incorporating principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Motivational Interviewing.
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Women's Issues Counsellors
How do you encourage a woman to go to therapy?
It’s helpful to express concern and love for the person while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Offering specific examples of how an individual may be suffering, and what effects it has on them, should be done with compassion and with empathy. It may be useful to devise a game plan—breaking the process down into parts, such as finding a therapist, making appointments, and looking into insurance coverage.
How can women prepare for therapy?
Women can prepare for therapy by being willing to talk about their past experiences and their private thoughts. Before a session, an individual may want to reflect on how they’ve felt since the last session and what’s happened in their lives. Between sessions, it can be useful to write down notes about their reaction to a given event or how they felt at a particular time.
How long does therapy for women’s issues often last?
As with any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual and the challenges they face. Therapy types like Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Prolonged exposure therapy (PET), and Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) can be brief, most often ranging from between 5 and 20 sessions. In some cases, such as for women with eating disorders, residential treatment may be recommended for an individual who is judged to be at high risk of self-harm. For any therapy, the duration will depend on the progress made and results realised.
How can women overcome stigma around specific challenges in order to seek therapy?
Women dealing with domestic abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, and any other number of troubles may feel a stigma around seeking help. It’s important to remember that these issues are not uncommon and there is no shame in getting help for them. Therapy is confidential, and women can talk about their experiences without fear of judgment. Seeking therapy can be a courageous and liberating act, and an important step toward healing and recovery.