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“Who am I now that everything around me has changed?”
Some life transitions like menopause are ignited with the flip of a light switch. A betrayal, a separation, a diagnosis. Others creep in slowly, the way perimenopause can shift your body, your moods, and your sense of yourself before you’ve even named what’s happening. As a menopause therapist in Pasadena, I work with women in exactly this kind of in-between, where the ground has moved, your life is shaken and you’re left wondering who you are now.
This is where relationship and life transition therapy comes in.
You don’t have to already know what you’re rebuilding toward or trying to discover about yourself. You just have to be ready to stop hanging by a thread through it alone.
Is Relationship and Life Transition Therapy Right for You?
You may benefit from this work if you are:
- Rebuilding trust after betrayal or infidelity
- Navigating separation, divorce, or a major relationship change
- Moving through perimenopause or menopause and feeling like a stranger in your own body
- Facing a career shift, relocation, or empty nest that’s shaken your sense of identity
- Grieving a version of your life—or yourself—that you didn’t expect to lose
- Becoming unsettled at the loss of a parent and feeling like you lost your sense of security in the world
- Feeling anxious, irritable, or emotionally unpredictable in ways that feel unfamiliar
- Wondering whether what you’re feeling is depression, burnout, or something hormonal—and unsure where to even start
Areas of Focus
Betrayal and Relationship Transitions
Rebuilding trust, in others, and in yourself
Betrayal doesn’t just break a relationship; it breaks your ability to trust your own instincts on people and situations. Whether you’re working through infidelity, a painful separation, or the slow unraveling of a relationship you thought was solid, therapy offers a place to process the anger, grief, and self-doubt without rushing you toward forgiveness, having to make a decision or finding closure before you’re ready.
Perimenopause and Midlife Identity Shifts
When your body and moods feel unfamiliar
Perimenopause is rarely talked about as the identity event it actually is. The anxiety, irritability, brain fog, and emotional volatility that can show up during this transition are often dismissed by others, and sometimes by yourself as “just stress and overwhelm” or “just what comes with getting older.” You deserve more than that. Therapy helps you sort out what’s hormonal, what’s emotional, and what’s simply asking to be seen, so you can move through this stage feeling like yourself again, not like someone in another person’s body.
Major Life Transitions
Career shifts, relocation, empty nesting, grief and the identity questions they raise
Not every life transition is a crisis, but every life transition asks something of you: who are you when the role, the routine, or the relationship that used to define you changes shape? These changes often can feel like you functioning while walking through fog. Therapy gives you a steady place to begin to clear the fog and sit with the questions instead of rushing to answer them.
My Approach
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, my work integrates solution-focused, cognitive-based, and psychodynamic approaches with a blend of narrative therapy within a calm, trauma-informed space. Some sessions are practical and concrete tools for managing anxiety or emotional volatility. Others are more reflective, when a deeper pattern is asking for attention.
I work at a pace that feels grounding, not overwhelming. This isn’t about fixing you. It’s about helping you understand what you’re moving through, rebuild trust in yourself, and come out the other side feeling more like you.
Begin Relationship and Life Transition Therapy in Pasadena
If you are in the middle of a transition you didn’t choose, or one that you did choose, but didn’t expect to feel so disoriented, I want you to know that you don’t have to navigate this alone. Whether you’re rebuilding after betrayal or looking for a menopause therapist in Pasadena who understands what this stage of life actually feels like, I offer in-person therapy in Pasadena and secure online therapy throughout California.
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