Women's Issues therapists in Garberville, California CA
Women's Issues
Christina L. Gietzen-Haraden
Psychologist, Psy.D
20+ years of experience working with women of all ages developing a stronger sense of identity and self-esteem, especially in the of areas of relationships, career and general life-satisfaction. Dr. Christina Gietzen specializes in adult daughters of divorced parents and offers unique insight as to how healthy identity and intimacy can be long-term challenges for these women. Dr. Gietzen is also experienced in helping women navigate their religious identity in a safe and supportive environment.
23 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Charis Khoury
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Aware of societal conditioning and its impact on women in a multitude of ways, I'm here to support you and help clear what impedes your fullness and strength.
14 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Davene, Fecteau
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPCC
If you find yourself overwhelmed in your current stage of life, you are not alone. Whether it’s with navigating work, raising children or caregiving for aging relatives, managing relationships, dealing with health issues, and or your own thoughts and emotions throughout the day, your body is signaling that the ways that you have been coping may not be serving you well anymore and it’s time to try something new. I assist women in stepping into the wholeness of who they are. With the woman as the expert on their own internal experience, I collaborate with them and encourage them to go deep into healing work so that they can be present, accept what is, and take an active-self leadership role in their life.
17 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Michelle Parrella
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
You’re tired of doing all the things. It's difficult to find fulfillment in day-to-day life in the midst of stress and burnout. I can help. You want to stop feeling empty and disconnected. You want to better understand yourself and your feelings and learn skills to break through this stalemate. The down days come fast and hard, and you know you’re wearing thin. You’re yearning to feel comfortable in your own skin, live with purpose and build more meaningful connections.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by everything you have to give to everyone all the time? Once upon a time you felt on top of it all… you were happy and took pride in being able to manage so much, but that escapes you now. Everything feels so big, you feel isolated and you’ve been feeling this way for far too long. It’s hard to find happiness in day-to-day life amid feelings of anxiety or burnout.
With therapy, you will learn how to destroy the negative narratives living rent free in your head, gain a better understanding of yourself and build new skills that put you back in control of your life and emotions. You’ll have an empowering space committed solely to you where you can share free of judgment or criticism. You’ll gain clarity, build confidence and learn how to set healthy boundaries to foster connection and transform your life.
9 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Jean-Marie Bottequin
Life Coach, WAPP
Woman: Fight your urge for perfectionism! Many women suffer from the compulsion to deliver even better results. There is nothing wrong with that in principle, but it often leads to delays and excessive workloads. In order for women to get into leadership positions, they have to leave perfectionism at home and learn to sometimes just be content.
Perceive your inner family
By establishing contact and this communication with our body, we create the prerequisite for a serious change in the way we treat ourselves. We trace our prohibitions in order to be able to give permission where we have been restricted up to now. Let us now look at those parts of ourselves that restrict us: we find them in our inner family.
Strengthen your own personality in the long term
On the basis of a fairy tale ("The Seal Woman"), we work out the gaps and pitfalls of our own personality in a playful way, step by step.
Through various exercises and role plays, the female participants become aware of their own identity.
The goal is to return to the origin, to the natural "wild" nature of the woman.
The further goal is to learn to be independent and to determine one's own life, both in good and difficult times.
We know sentences like: "Be modest; adapt yourself; don't think too much; don't get the idea of getting out of line; be kind and say yes, even if it hurts and if you are almost choking on the word...".
To follow such a loveless value system in our society leads to extreme inner conflict.
"If we give up our true needs to exchange ourselves for the comfort of a golden cage, we will be grafted with the views of the dried-up old perfectionists". (Clarissa Pinkola Estès)
Your benefit
- to be able to distinguish the important from the urgent
- follow one's own nature
- remain authentic
- stay mentally healthy to be able to act effectively
"A woman hungry for her true soul life may appear elegant and well-fed from the outside, but inside she is a wide open throat with pleadingly outstretched arms and claws". (Clarissa Pinkola Estès)
20 Years Experience