Online Women's Issues therapists in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, England ENG, United Kingdom UK
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Dr. Claire Vines, Psy.D., Psychologist / Licensed /Psychotherapy / Psychoanalytic/
Marriage and Family Therapist, Marriage, Couples, LMFT. Psy.D. Trauma-Focused CBT
Women must recognize that there is no man without a woman. Once upon a time, women were taught that self worth came from men's validation, whether a father, a brother or a husband. Today, women are independent by choice or homemakers by choice. Not that long ago women were not allowed to vote. Now we can run for president. Self confidence, self love, self respect and validation is an ongoing emotional process...Never stop loving...
21 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
This topic can be addressed on many layers e.g. psychological, physiologial, emotional, mental, sexual, existential, racial, economic, social-culturally, familial... With an intersectional lens clients can look at the co-existence of more than one factor and impact. Our care model brings context back, affirms cycles and changes, and looks at issues of health from a multi-layered lens. Please also check some of the specific sections listed on this page for intersectional care.
15 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Liz Frings
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Diploma Person-Centred Psychotherapy. EMDR Accredited
Women's issues in therapy can encompass a wide range of experiences, including:
Reproductive and hormonal concerns (pregnancy, postpartum, miscarriage, infertility, menopause)
Body image and eating concerns
Sexual health and intimacy
Gender-based trauma (sexual assault, domestic violence, harassment)
Work-life balance and the "mental load"
Perfectionism and people-pleasing patterns
Navigating patriarchal expectations and societal pressures
Identity and self-worth beyond traditional roles
Relationship dynamics and boundary-setting
Motherhood challenges (or choosing not to be a mother)
Career discrimination and the glass ceiling
Aging as a woman in a youth-focused culture
These issues often intersect and compound, creating complex emotional landscapes that benefit from therapeutic support.
How Therapy Helps
Validating Your Experience
One of the most powerful aspects of therapy is having your experiences validated. So many women have been told they're "too sensitive," "overreacting," or that their struggles aren't legitimate. A good therapist—especially one who specializes in women's issues—understands the unique challenges you face and affirms that your feelings are real and reasonable.
Breaking Free from People-Pleasing
Many women are socialized from childhood to prioritize others' needs over their own, to be agreeable, and to avoid conflict. Therapy helps you recognize these patterns, understand where they come from, and learn to set healthy boundaries without guilt. You can explore what you actually want, rather than what you think you should want.
Processing Gender-Based Trauma
Whether it's sexual assault, domestic violence, workplace harassment, or more subtle forms of discrimination and microaggressions, gender-based trauma leaves deep wounds. Therapies like EMDR and trauma-focused CBT can help process these experiences, reduce symptoms like hypervigilance and flashbacks, and help you reclaim your sense of safety and power.
Navigating Hormonal and Life Transitions
From puberty to pregnancy to perimenopause and beyond, hormonal changes can significantly impact mood, anxiety, and sense of self. Therapy provides support during these transitions, helping you understand what's happening in your body, manage symptoms, and adjust to the changes without losing yourself in the process.
Healing Body Image and Eating Concerns
Women face relentless pressure about appearance, weight, and aging. Therapy can help you develop a healthier relationship with your body, challenge unrealistic beauty standards, address disordered eating patterns, and find self-worth that isn't tied to how you look.
Addressing the Mental Load
Even in 2025, women often carry the invisible burden of managing household tasks, emotional labor, and family scheduling. Therapy helps you recognize this imbalance, communicate your needs, and redistribute responsibilities without feeling guilty for not "doing it all."
Exploring Identity Beyond Traditional Roles
Whether you're a mother questioning your identity beyond motherhood, a woman choosing not to have children, someone navigating career ambitions alongside family expectations, or exploring what it means to age as a woman—therapy offers space to define yourself on your own terms.
Strengthening Your Voice
Many women struggle to advocate for themselves, especially in medical settings, at work, or in relationships. Therapy helps you find and strengthen your voice, practice assertiveness, and learn to communicate your needs confidently.
Processing Reproductive Experiences
Pregnancy loss, infertility, difficult births, abortion decisions, and menopause can all bring complex grief, trauma, and identity shifts. Therapy provides compassionate support for processing these deeply personal experiences without judgment.
Building Authentic Self-Worth
When society constantly sends messages about what women should be, do, or look like, it's easy to lose touch with your authentic self. Therapy helps you peel back those external expectations and reconnect with your inherent worth—not based on productivity, appearance, or caregiving, but simply because you exist.
15 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Saffron Marriner
Counsellor/Therapist, MBACP (Accred)
women's issues encompass a wide range of challenges that affect our physical, emotional and psychological well-being. These issues may arise from societal expectations, gender roles, discrimination, trauma and personal experiences. Gender based violence includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse. This can occur in various settings, such as domestic relationships, workplaces and public spaces. The impact of GBV on women's mental health can lead to anxiety, depression and PTSD. Body image and self-esteem due to societal standards of beauty often place immense pressure on women to conform to unrealistic body ideals. This can result in body image issues, eating disorders and low self-esteem. Reproductive health issues such as menstrual health, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause are significant aspects of our overall wellbeing. Conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) endometriosis and infertility can have a substantial emotional and psychological impact. Women often face challenges in balancing our professional and personal lives. We may experience stress related to career advancements, workplace discrimination and the expectations of caregiving roles at home. The struggle to achieve work-life balance can lead to burnout and mental health concerns. Cultural norms and societal expectations can influence women's life choices, including marriage, motherhood and career paths. These pressures can create conflicts between personal desires and societal demands, leading to stress and identity crises. Combining humanistic and trauma-informed approaches provides a comprehensive framework for addressing women's issues in counselling. This integration involves conducting a thorough assessment, working collaboratively with my clients to set realistic and meaningful goals. Empowering you to take an active role in your healing journey and prioritise your needs and preferences, tailoring interventions to my client's unique experiences and strengths , use techniques to address specific issues and promote personal growth. Regular evaluation
22 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Georgina Lloyd
Counsellor/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
I provide thoughtful, evidence-based support for women navigating a range of life challenges, including trauma, anxiety, identity changes, caregiving stress, and health-related concerns. My approach is collaborative and compassionate, offering a safe space to explore experiences, build resilience, and support emotional wellbeing at every stage of life.
6 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Aleksandra Pamphlett - Cert. Coach & Psychologist
Life Coach, MAC, MSc, BSc Hons,
As a specialist in women's mental health, I am dedicated to providing a safe and supportive space for women navigating the complexities of life. Whether you're dealing with issues related to relationships, self-esteem, career, or personal growth, our collaborative journey is tailored to address the unique challenges that women often face.
12 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Anjali P.
Registered Psychotherapist, MA in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling, Registered Member MBACP- 408062
Women often navigate complex and sometimes competing expectations around relationships, caregiving, work, identity, family, appearance, and self-worth. Therapy can provide a space to explore these experiences openly, understand the emotional impact they may have had, and develop a stronger connection to your own needs, values, and sense of self.
4 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Gemma Autumn
Counsellor/Therapist, Integrative Adult and Adolescent Counsellor Cert, PgDip, MBACP Accredited
I work with those going through issues related to being a woman.
10 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Psykhe Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, MACP
Each therapist has their own specialties, and we focus on connecting you with the clinician whose experience best fits your needs. Therapy may involve developing coping strategies, processing past experiences and childhood patterns, and cultivating greater self-compassion and emotional well-being.
8 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Claire de la Varre
Therapist, PhD, HGDipP
Women's issues can impact mental health in various ways. These cover a wide range of issues: including but not limited to gender, sexuality, social media, misogyny, or race, as well as those relating to specific aspects of health, and life-course issues like menopause, caring for aging parents, coping with difficult children, domestic abuse, and relationship problems. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental space for you to air your concerns and offer useful practical tools, strategies, and coping skills.
18 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Dr. Birte Nachtwey
Registered Psychotherapist, MD, CORST
I deal with all sorts of womens issues in my practice. Some examples are: difficulty to orgasm, lack of desire and/ or arousal, pain during intercourse, vaginism, menopause, difficulties with gender identity, sexual orientation or preferences, self consciousness about one’s body and many more.
Contact me if you need support or just feel curious about exploring your possibilities to become more the woman of your life and achieve a more happy and satisfying sexuality and relationship with yourself and others.
19 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Jill Deacon
Counsellor/Therapist, BSc and FdSc Person Centred Counselling. MBACP
Gender does play a role with our mental health and women are more likely to experience psychological distress than men, with socio-cultural, and biological issues affecting us. Women are more likely to experience abuse, (sexual, physical, emotional, psychological etc) rape, attemtped rape and other traumatising events and stop us engaging fully in life. We also have to mange self image, body image, child bearing and raising, menstruation, menopause, career loss and glass ceiling and many many other expectations we have to manage.
Speaking with a trained counsellor gives you the opportunity to trust in a warm, open, non judgemental , safe space to explore any issues you may wish to bring.
8 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Fiona Grace
Counsellor/Therapist, AdvDipCounselling &Pyschotherapy MBACP
Bognor Regis, Bristol, London, West Sussex Women's issues being a woman myself I have learnt experience in this area. Sometimes it will feel easier to talk to another female about what you are experiencing whether its fertility, hormones , menopause. periods, genealogical conditions, relationships etc
20 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Rewilding Earth & Psyche - Tyler Mostul, MSN
Life Coach, Earth-Based Depth Coach, Master's in Nursing - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
Women in our culture have been told me be small, to take care of others, and not cause problems. This work is about stepping into the fullness of who you are and all that you have to offer the world.
6 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Adima Hawkes
Counsellor/Therapist, Psychotherapist, Spiritual Teacher, Gene Keys Guide, Trainer Tibetan Acupressure & Iridology
I am trained and experienced in working with women of all ages for body issues of pains, fertility, sexuality, meno pause and ageing. I am strongly interested to support nourishing relationships, networking and friendships with women. Only together can we unveil and reveal the magic that lies deeper in our being. Welcome Sisters.
30 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Alison Edwards Therapy & Supervision
Psychologist, CBT Therapist, FMBPsS, MA (Hons), MSc, CertCouns, MSc
I'm experienced in supporting women who have severe PMS and PMDD, and women who are peri-menopausal and going through the menopause. I've undertaken training in using CBT to manage menopausal symptoms.
18 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Healing Hands Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, Sasha McBean, MBACP Accredited, MSc, BSc
Fibroids and fertility are just some of the common problems are women face. With increased demand and policing of women's bodies we provide a confidential space to explore the problems you are facing and what matters to you the most. Thinking of freezing your eggs? The egg retrieval process can be difficult the first time around, we provide a thoughtful and considerate service for women like you.
13 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Kat Pachana-Pereira
Registered Psychotherapist, Integrative Therapist (CBT), Couples Therapist, EMDR Therapist
hormonal changes, menopause, societal pressure, body image, motherhood, internalized guilt and people-pleasing, and identity struggles
9 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Szilvia Kovacs
Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Hypnotherapist
Being a goddess in our society can sometimes be pretty challenging. Carrying traditional roles mixed with high-performance career expectations is close to mission impossible. Whether you live on your own or are a mother of children, whether you have a partner or are dreaming about having one, not to mention when you feel you are over the whole "perfect daughter-mother-wife-lover" stuff are wondering what else is left for you. Having been a woman my entire life so far, I know personally, it's okay to feel overwhelmed and need support to get through the storm. Your hormones, moods, weight may fluctuate, but believe me, you, and only you can overcome it.
21 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG (Online Only)
Mariana Amat
Psychologist
I support women through the many transitions of identity, body, and relationship that shape their lives — from early adulthood to motherhood and beyond. My work centers on self-understanding, emotional balance, and empowerment, helping women reconnect with their voice, needs, and sense of belonging.
11 Years Experience
Online in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, ENG
Women's Issues therapists in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom Statistics
Women's Issues therapists in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom average 14 years of experience and charge around ¤130 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Women's Issues (100%), Anxiety or Fears (78%), and Stress (78%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤130
Gender ID
| 84% |
Female |
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| 8% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 54% |
In Person and Online |
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| 46% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Women's Issues |
| 78% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 78% | Stress |
| 76% | Self Esteem |
| 70% | Depression |
| 64% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 62% | Social Anxiety |