Psychotherapy for Women’s Health
At its core, psychotherapy for women’s health is about supporting you through the unique challenges that can arise at different stages of life. Whether you’re navigating the emotional rollercoaster of menstrual health issues, going through fertility treatment or the menopause, therapy can provide a safe space to explore your feelings, gain understanding, and find healing.
How Can Therapy Help You?
For women facing fertility struggles or the complexities of IVF, or those in the perinatal period—pre- or post-pregnancy—psychotherapy can help you manage your emotional and mental health with care and compassion. Whether you're seeking help for issues around body image, relationships or trauma, psychotherapy offers a gentle way to reconnect with yourself, process your experiences, and heal.
The Body Remembers what the Mind Cannot
One of trauma’s cruellest features is its generalisation. From one specific injury, the mind creates global rules. “People are unsafe.” “My needs are too much.” “Mistakes mean punishment.” “My feelings cause harm.” What began as a local wound becomes a lens through which all of life is seen. To heal trauma is not to “erase” the past. It is to finally bring it into focus, so that we are no longer living in its shadow. Trauma-informed psychotherapy begins here: not with fixing, but with witnessing. Not with rushing toward solutions, but with gentle, steady curiosity. This kind of therapy makes room for the parts of us that had to go quiet, the parts that braced, the parts that fled. It listens to symptoms as if they were messages from the past and trusts that the body never overreacts without reason.
The Journey to Healing
One of trauma’s defining features is that it is stored in the body as fragments; in sensation, in reaction. This is why we often can’t “think” our way out of it. Trauma colours how we interpret reality. It shapes how close we let people get. It tells us how safe the world is or isn’t. We begin to relate to new experiences as if they were old ones, without realising we’re doing it. We might feel unsafe when there’s no danger, unloved in the face of care, or perpetually on edge even in calm settings. In these moments, we’re not responding to what’s happening now, but to what happened then, long before our adult self had words or perspective to make sense of it. Healing doesn’t begin by forcing ourselves to “move on.” It begins with remembering safely, in the presence of someone who can help us hold what we could not hold alone. Trauma-informed psychotherapy offers a space for this.
The Power of Sensory Memory
Healing requires more than language. It requires contact with the body and the senses. Before we revisit the past, we need stability in the present. The therapeutic relationship provides this ground—offering consistency, attunement, and a sense that someone is truly, calmly with us. A trauma-informed approach is paced, relational, and above all, safe. It allows the client to build trust with themselves, and with the therapist, before exploring the deeper roots of their fear, anger, or grief. recognises how the body remembers. It weaves in breathing, grounding, and gentle sensory tracking. It listens for what cannot be said and trusts that even the subtlest signals are stories waiting to be told.