Promoting, protecting and repairing our wellness is like a bird building a nest.

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It's made up of many different components; each one is unique.

To stay strong, it needs continuous reinforcement and repair.
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Under hazardous conditions, it may be abandoned or fall to its complete destruction.
​If you're a woman  who has  given up on  your wellness or feel it’s been completely lost, please  continue reading to learn how therapy can help you rebuild. ​
What is women's wellness?
Wellness comes when we work toward balance physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. 

​ Like a nest, a woman's wellness is cobbled together by many different pieces and each finished product is unique to her. 

Your particular sense of wellness may be related to your family, career, health, appearance,  social connections, intelligence, creativity, accomplishments or abilities. 

Throughout life, women do all sorts of things to improve wellness. These things are usually based on what's important to you.  You may  pursue higher education or a professional trade, partner, get divorced, pursue motherhood,  achieve in the work place, choose to work inside the home, have elective or preventive surgery,   exercise, diet, volunteer, etc. 
What are some things that impact a woman's wellness? 
  • anticipated changes that come as we age like partnering, motherhood, menopause, empty-nesting and retirement;
  • unanticipated changes that come with   chronic  disease, disability, tragic losses, infidelity, etc;
  • changes that involve choice like  elective or preventive surgeries.
Unfortunately, not all things go as-planned. Phase-of-life transitions and change (even those we choose) can bring tremendous physical and emotional suffering; surgeries can have complications; and life inevitably has pain for us and for people we care about. 
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Conversely, a failure to change can also impact your well-being.  You may have a long-standing negative self-perception holding you back. 
Do I need therapy to rebuild my wellness?   
​Every woman's sense of wellness is unique to her.
  • Only you know if you are continuing to work toward balancing your physical, mental and social well-being in a way that feels helpful and authentic to you.
  • You may look on the outside like you're "hitting all the marks" and on the inside, you may feel purposeless, overwhelmed, drained, or defeated.
  • You may feel you  never had the skills  to 'build the nest' you truly desire, or you may have self-defeating beliefs and emotions that interfere.
  • Or you may have sustained so much 'damage to your nest' that you don't know where to begin the rebuild. ​


If you are a woman whose life's circumstances threatens your wellness,
​if you're feeling defeated or drained,
and you desire change,
my therapy services can help you rebuild.
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Please contact me to discuss your experience and to learn how I may help.  
If you wish to learn more about how I use mindfulness-based behavioral therapy to help improve the wellness of adult women throughout Chicago’s Northwest Suburbs, please continue reading.

How I help women rebuild and reclaim their wellness

 My therapeutic approach to for working with women's wellness issues  is drawn from two highly effective mindfulness-based behavioral therapies: acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy .  I am honored to have helped  women of all ages rebuild and reclaim their wellness through mindful acceptance and change processes.  

 Whether you have had unexpected developments or plans gone wrong, struggle with long-standing  body-acceptance issues, have lost your way as you navigate aging, or have something else impacting your wellness, I have a special interest in working to help women create lives and take actions based on  how they most want to be.

Together, we will work to empower you to balance yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and socially through mindfulness skills to help your direct your attention to whatever you need most,   acceptance and change skills so you can stop struggling with things that pull you away from your wellness and instead put your efforts toward changing your personal behaviors involving self-care and compassion.   Depending on your circumstances, we will also learn emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to use while you navigate difficult transitions and stressful change.  

My therapy services for women's wellness issues are available for women throughout Illinois via HIPPA-compliant telemental health as well as in  the safety of my office in Barrington, Illinois. My office is centrally located in Chicago’s Northwest Suburbs and is inside a renovated, private, historic home. There is a small, on-site parking area and a lobby that is decorated to provide you with a comfortable area to prepare for our sessions.  You can see pictures of my office on the What To Expect page. 

If you are a woman ready to work on building or restoring your wellness, I encourage you to reach out and see how I may help.