Women's Issues therapists in Merced, California CA
Women's Issues
Rachel W. Friendly, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Being a woman in the world is no easy task. From the time we are born, we are socialized to be small: small appetites, small opinions, small bodies. We are to smile and take care of others. We are to never get angry and never complain. We are simultaneously not enough and too much, all at once - and how is that even possible? That's why I specialize in working with women's issues in therapy. If this sounds like you, let's work together to help you take your power back and build a life in which you get to be yourself, in all your expansiveness and beauty.
13 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Jean-Marie Bottequin
Life Coach, WAPP
Woman: Fight your urge for perfectionism! Many women suffer from the compulsion to deliver even better results. There is nothing wrong with that in principle, but it often leads to delays and excessive workloads. In order for women to get into leadership positions, they have to leave perfectionism at home and learn to sometimes just be content.
Perceive your inner family
By establishing contact and this communication with our body, we create the prerequisite for a serious change in the way we treat ourselves. We trace our prohibitions in order to be able to give permission where we have been restricted up to now. Let us now look at those parts of ourselves that restrict us: we find them in our inner family.
Strengthen your own personality in the long term
On the basis of a fairy tale ("The Seal Woman"), we work out the gaps and pitfalls of our own personality in a playful way, step by step.
Through various exercises and role plays, the female participants become aware of their own identity.
The goal is to return to the origin, to the natural "wild" nature of the woman.
The further goal is to learn to be independent and to determine one's own life, both in good and difficult times.
We know sentences like: "Be modest; adapt yourself; don't think too much; don't get the idea of getting out of line; be kind and say yes, even if it hurts and if you are almost choking on the word...".
To follow such a loveless value system in our society leads to extreme inner conflict.
"If we give up our true needs to exchange ourselves for the comfort of a golden cage, we will be grafted with the views of the dried-up old perfectionists". (Clarissa Pinkola Estès)
Your benefit
- to be able to distinguish the important from the urgent
- follow one's own nature
- remain authentic
- stay mentally healthy to be able to act effectively
"A woman hungry for her true soul life may appear elegant and well-fed from the outside, but inside she is a wide open throat with pleadingly outstretched arms and claws". (Clarissa Pinkola Estès)
20 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Elaine Quattro
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
Therapy can be helpful for female clients to recognize unrealistic expectations that society places on women and help each women to find her unique truth. Other concerns are often related to over involvement, not externalizing fears and concerns, people pleasing and perfectionism.
27 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Lauren Blalock
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Living in a world designed by and mostly for men, can make being a women very hard at times. The challenge to be heard, AND understood is often overwhelming. I can support you through dating, unwanted pregnancy, fertility issues, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, career limitations, gender expression and much more. Together we can create the space you need to explore what is important to you and not just what society tells you a women should be.
8 Years Experience
Women's Issues
Crystal Taylor - Soulful Hearts In Nature
Life Coach, RSMT
We are living in a time of amazing opportunities for women to empower themselves and each other. I am here as a supportive guide for highly sensitive women in all areas of life using a unique multi-modal approach to embody what it means to be a woman in these current times.
15 Years Experience