Therapy for Life Transitions | Divorce, Empty Nesting & Finding Yourself Again

The ‘who am I now?’ question is real  – and it deserves a real answer.

Somewhere along the way, you stopped being a person and became a functional role.

Mom. Wife. Daughter. Friend. Caretaker. Employee. You performed these roles so well, for so long, that one day the kids left or the marriage ended or the career shifted – and you looked up and realized you had no idea who you were when you weren’t being needed.

That’s not a personal failure. That’s what happens when women are never really encouraged to ask “what do I want?” in the first place.

Life transitions can crack you open. They can also, if you have the right support, be the thing that finally brings you home to yourself.

The Transitions I Work With Most

• Divorce and relationship endings. Divorce is its own kind of grief – not just the loss of a partner, but the loss of the future you planned, the identity you built inside that relationship, sometimes the community that came with it. Whether the divorce was your decision, theirs, or a long time coming, the grief is real and it deserves real support.
• Empty nesting and free-birding. The kids leaving home is supposed to be a happy milestone. Sometimes it is. Often it’s also deeply disorienting – especially for women who organized significant parts of their identity around being mothers. Who are you when that chapter closes? What do you actually want your life to look like now?
• Career and identity shifts. Retirement, burnout, a pivot toward work that actually matters, leaving a field you gave decades to – these transitions carry their own particular loss and possibility.
• Loss and grief. The death of a parent, a friendship ending, the loss of a physical capability, an identity, a version of the future. Grief comes in many forms, and not all of them look like sadness.
• The mid-life reckoning. Sometimes there’s no single event – it’s more like waking up one day and knowing that if something doesn’t change, you’re going to spend the next several decades feeling like a stranger in your own life.

The Liminal Space

I specialize in what I call liminal work – the in-between. The space after one chapter has closed and before the next has fully begun. It’s uncomfortable there. Humans are wired to want resolution, to know what comes next, to get to the other side.

But the in-between is actually where the most important work happens. It’s where you stop performing the old roles and start figuring out what you actually believe, want, and need. It’s where you get to choose – maybe for the first time – how you want to live.

What Our Work Together Looks Like

I work with the whole picture – what’s happening in your mind, what’s happening in your body, how your heart feels about that, and what your soul is reaching toward even if you can’t name it yet. I use somatic approaches, parts-based work, and inner child healing alongside more traditional evidence-based tools.

I’m direct. I’m warm. I’ll tell you what I notice, ask you questions that might be uncomfortable, and meet whatever you bring without flinching. I’ve done my own work. I know what it is to rebuild.

Sessions & Next Steps

Sessions are virtual, 55 minutes, $180 self-pay. I’m licensed in Indiana, California, and Texas. I work exclusively with women over 40 because that’s where my deepest clinical and personal expertise lives.

If something in this resonated – even just a flicker – book a free consultation. We’ll talk about what’s going on for you and whether this feels like the right fit.