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Therapy for Midlife Transitions in Newport, Oregon

Helping you navigate midlife with greater self-compassion, clarity, and confidence so you can create a more authentic and fulfilling next chapter.

Do You Feel Like the Life You've Built No Longer Fits the Person You're Becoming?

Midlife often brings more change than expected. Relationships shift. Your body may feel different. Health concerns, caregiving, career changes, or questions about what comes next can arrive simultaneously. Even positive changes can leave you feeling unsettled as familiar roles and routines shift.

At some point, you may find yourself asking questions you haven't had time to consider before. What do I want now? What matters most? Does the life I've built still reflect who I am today? After years of meeting expectations, caring for others, or putting your needs aside, you may realize you're ready for something different even if you're not sure what that looks like yet.

You may recognize yourself in some of these experiences:

  • Feeling responsible for everyone else's needs while struggling to make time or space for your own.

  • Looking in the mirror and feeling disconnected from the changes happening in your body as you age.

  • Lying awake at night worrying about aging parents, your own health, finances, or what the future holds.

  • Realizing the roles, relationships, or ways of living that once worked for you no longer feel fulfilling, but not knowing what comes next.

  • Feeling exhausted by years of people-pleasing, self-sacrifice, or putting yourself last and wanting something different for this next chapter of life.

  • Noticing more anxiety, overwhelm, or sensitivity to stress than you've experienced before.

What Therapy Can Offer

Midlife can be an opportunity to pause and ask yourself what you want this next chapter of life to look like. Therapy offers space to slow down, reflect on what's changing, and reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have been overlooked while meeting everyone else's needs.

Together, we'll explore changes in your relationships, roles, health, or sense of purpose and identify patterns, beliefs, and expectations that no longer fit this season of your life. As you reconnect with your values and what matters most, it becomes easier to make choices that feel authentic and aligned with the life you want to create.

Over time, you may gain greater clarity about what matters most, more confidence in your decisions, and a stronger connection with yourself. Instead of feeling pulled in every direction, you'll begin creating a life that reflects who you are today, not just who you've been expected to be.

My Approach

There comes a point when old ways of thinking, coping, or relating to yourself no longer fit your current life. My approach helps you navigate this season with greater self-compassion while creating a life that reflects who you are today.

  • Midlife doesn't always come with clear answers. ACT helps you respond more flexibly to difficult thoughts and emotions while reconnecting with your values so your choices become guided by what matters most to you rather than by fear or self-doubt.

  • Many people have spent years caring for others, meeting expectations, or believing they need to be harder on themselves in order to do enough. Self-compassion offers another way forward. Together, we'll work on responding to yourself with greater kindness while making space for your own needs, emotions, and experiences.

  • How we move through midlife is shaped by many experiences, including relationships, beliefs, and expectations we've carried over time. My work integrates CBT, mindfulness, and relational approaches to help you notice patterns that no longer fit, respond to life's challenges more intentionally, and create meaningful change that feels authentic to you.

What Working Together Looks Like

  • Consultation

    Your free consultation is a chance to discuss what's bringing you to therapy and what feels most important in this season of your life. Whether you're navigating changes in relationships, health, career, caregiving, or identity, you'll have space to share your experiences, ask questions, and decide if working together feels right.

  • Initial Sessions

    Our first few sessions are a chance for me to get to know you and your story. We'll explore what's changing in your life, how those changes affect you, and what you hope will feel different moving forward. Together, we'll identify the most important areas to focus on and create goals that reflect your values, priorities, and the life you want to build.

  • Ongoing Support

    Therapy continues to reflect your evolving needs. Some sessions may focus on aging, caregiving, changing relationships, or health concerns, while others center on identity, boundaries, self-compassion, or creating a more meaningful next chapter. As your needs change, our work will change with you.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Midlife often brings changes that prompt us to step back and think about who we are, what matters most, and how we want to spend the years ahead. Questioning your priorities, relationships, career, or sense of purpose doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. It can be part of recognizing that you're changing, too.

  • No. Some people begin therapy after a significant change such as divorce, caregiving, retirement, health concerns, or children leaving home. Others simply notice that the life they've been living no longer feels like the right fit. Therapy offers space to explore both.

  • It often starts by giving yourself permission to notice what you need. Therapy offers space to slow down, reconnect with your values, and explore what has made it difficult to put yourself first. Over time, you may set healthier boundaries, make decisions with greater confidence, and create a life that reflects who you are today rather than who you feel you should be.

  • You don't need to have the answers before starting therapy. Sometimes the first step is creating space to slow down, reflect, and explore what feels meaningful now. Clarity often develops as you pay attention to your values, needs, and priorities.

  • Yes. Changes in your body, health, or energy can affect many parts of your life, including your relationships, confidence, and sense of identity. Therapy offers a place to process those experiences with compassion while adjusting to this new season of life.

  • If you're feeling called toward something different but aren't sure what that looks like yet, this approach may be a good fit. A free consultation is an opportunity to talk about what you're experiencing, ask questions, and decide whether working together feels right.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

You don't need to have everything figured out before reaching out for support. Midlife can be an opportunity to deepen your relationship with yourself and start creating a life that reflects who you are today.

If you're ready to explore what this next chapter could look like, I'd be honored to walk alongside you.

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