Therapy for Women · Boca Raton, FL
Training & supervision
EMDR-trained
EMDRIA-approved basic training curriculum
AEDP-trained
AEDP Institute
IFS-informed
Internal Family Systems
MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Master's level clinician
Practicing under qualified supervision
Supervised by Karin Witte, LMHC #MH13488
Currently practicing at Genesis Counseling, Boca Raton.
Therapy for women is psychotherapy designed around the life stages, relational patterns, and inner-world dynamics most common to women - anxiety, depression, identity, trauma, and emotional overwhelm. At Genesis Counseling in Boca Raton, FL, where I currently practice under qualified Florida supervision, sessions are trauma-informed and integrate EMDR, somatic, AEDP, and IFS approaches. Most major insurance is accepted through Genesis; private pay is also available.
Women need a safe place to heal, grow, and simply exist. In a world that constantly asks us to do more, be more, and keep moving, many women rarely get the chance to slow down, breathe, and truly be present with themselves.
Growing up, many women are taught to become people pleasers - to put their own voice, needs, and emotions aside for the comfort of others. Over time, this can make it incredibly difficult to know who we truly are as adults. The standards placed on women have become almost humanly impossible. Society constantly tells us we are not enough - not successful enough, attractive enough, productive enough, soft enough, confident enough.
We are surrounded by pressure from self-image, relationships, expectations, and the endless noise telling us who we should be. Eventually, it becomes hard to hear our own voice beneath it all.
But your inner self still has something to say.
The parts of you that feel unseen, overwhelmed, hurt, protective, hopeful, or longing to be heard deserve space, safety, and compassion.
I create a quiet, supportive, and emotionally safe space where women can reconnect with themselves. A place where your body can soften, your nervous system can exhale, and the deeper parts of you finally have room to speak.
Here, healing is not about becoming someone else.
It is about coming home to who you already are.
Who I work with
The work most often lives in one of the areas below. Each describes a pattern I have prepared for clinically and one I sit with often. None of these need to be neatly diagnosed before we begin.
Focus area
High-functioning anxiety, overthinking, panic, perfectionism, and the chronic sense of being on alert. The work attends to both the thought patterns and the nervous system underneath them, so the response itself can begin to soften.
Focus area
The numb kind, the heavy kind, the kind that does not look like depression to the outside world. Often paired with disconnection from your own emotions, body, or sense of self.
Focus area
For women trying to understand themselves more deeply, rebuild self-trust, and reconnect with who they are underneath everything they are managing.
Focus area
For women carrying painful experiences, relational wounds, or nervous-system patterns that continue to shape daily life. The work attends to both the story and the body.
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For women living with complex post-traumatic stress, the kind that comes from prolonged or relational wounding rather than a single event. The patterns it creates, hypervigilance, the inability to feel safe inside your own body, the sense that something is always about to go wrong, are intelligent adaptations to what you survived. The work is not about removing them quickly. It is about helping your nervous system experience that the danger is no longer present, so the protective patterns can soften on their own.
Focus area
For neurodivergent women, including those whose neurodivergence was missed or misread growing up. For many of my clients, the deepest wound is not the neurodivergence itself. It is the years of being asked to function as if you were not neurodivergent. The school systems that punished what was actually difference, the masking required to be accepted, the exhaustion of carrying that load without anyone naming it. We work with both the original adaptations and the cost they have asked of you.
Why deeper work matters
Many of the women I meet have already done therapy. They have insight. They can name what happened and how it shaped them. But the body still tightens. The reaction still fires. The same dynamic still shows up.
That gap, between knowing and feeling, is often where the deeper work lives. It is not a failure of you or of the therapy you have already done. It is a sign that the change has not yet reached the layer where the response itself sits.
EMDR, somatic work, and emotionally focused approaches can help reach that layer. Not through promises of overnight change, but by supporting change in the brain, body, and nervous system at a pace that holds.
Relationships, boundaries, and the work behind them
Everything starts with you. You have more power than you realize.
When you build a better relationship with yourself, you can finally hear what you actually need. You can set boundaries in your communication. You can tell when something - or someone - in your life is not working for you anymore.
If you are stuck in a relationship that does not feel right, or unsure of yourself inside it, the way through is not by trying to change the other person. It is by getting closer to yourself. When you start to understand what your body and your patterns are trying to tell you, the relationship begins to change too. So does your sense of what you want in the rest of your life.
Often the problem is not the life you have. It is the life you have been creating from inside a nervous system that learned to survive, to please, to protect - not to choose. Therapy is where you slowly start to choose again.
What working together looks like
01 · Consultation
A free 15-minute phone call. You share a little about what is going on. I share how I work. We see whether it feels like a fit before either of us commits to anything.
02 · First sessions
Slower than many people expect. We get oriented. I learn about your history, what brought you in, and what feels important to you. There is no rush to do the deep work before we have built a foundation for it.
03 · The work
Weekly 50-minute sessions, paced around your sense of safety. We work with thoughts, emotions, the body, and relational patterns. The methods are tools, not the point. The relationship is the point.
04 · Endings
Therapy is not meant to be forever. We work toward you trusting yourself enough to keep going on your own, with the option to come back if a new chapter of life asks something different of you.
An invitation
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see whether working together feels like the right fit.
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