adult women
individual approach
Women hold many roles, and while many can feel wonderful, busy lives, expectations, unhealed hurts and shifts in expectations can leave them feeling adrift, anxious, unsure of themselves or even left behind. Often balancing parenting, relationships, career, aging parents, extended family, and community, the self gets left behind. As adults, we continue to change - who we were 10 years ago, is not often who we’d feel totally describes us today. But we continue to operate on old information; old needs we had, old priorities, old desires. Without exploring who we are today, even familiar lives that once felt fulfilling can come up short.
I work with women to help them discover who they are today, and how to love and consider themselves the way they may with other important people or commitments in their lives. Together we identify what feels prioritized and fulfilling today, how to show up in all areas of life with authenticity, how to identify and strengthen boundaries. We also explore burnout, family history that may be influencing the self, and how to process and manage difficult events and shifts in roles and identity.
roles and identities
If you’re feeling distressed - burnt out, anxious, depressed, sleepless, unhappy, emotionally reactive, unsatisfied, or unfulfilled - and lost as to how to begin or what it is you even need to feel whole again, we start with exploring who you are today and how you show up in your many roles and expectations. I provide a space and guidance to help you identify your authentic values, identity and priorities, while helping you process distress or pain that you may also be carrying. Some distressing roles can be shifted or eliminated, but often many women identify difficult roles as necessary. When this occurs, I help you learn, practice and build tools to manage distress in order to not continue to suffer under the weight of the experience. If you’ve ever felt like you are last on your own to-do list and likely the to-do that never gets done, I can help you prioritize and love yourself again.
Holding boundaries is a popular concept right now, and while they are incredibly important, they’re often misunderstood. Boundaries are not a stop sign or impenetrable fence you are supposed to erect to keep people from going further, but rather a gesture of authenticity that says, “I can meet you here.” Boundaries exist in all areas of life, from marriages to family, with kids, work, even technology. Importantly, boundaries begin with ourselves. When you say “yes” when you really meant “no”, it’s true the boundary with the requester wasn’t set but first the boundary with yourself wasn’t met. Everyone has boundaries; when we say, “boundaries would be too hard to set with that person”, we’re really saying “my boundaries with that person are very porous” and usually you’re the only one feeling the consequences.
I provide a space to help you identify areas of distress that different boundaries could heal and soothe, we explore how to set them, how to manage and push through the fear or anxiety about setting them, how to say them, and how to keep them.
Boundaries
Burnout can be experienced in many areas of life - work, family, community. If you feel like you don’t have a moment to catch your breath, that you’re pulled in a million directions, that your to-do pile grows faster than you can begin to work at it, if you feel overwhelmed and on the brink of inertia or explosion, it’s possible you’re experiencing burnout. I provide a space to process everything your feeling, psychoeducation on the way burnout effects your mental and physical health, tools to use to help soothe your nervous system, anxiety and depression, and eventually exploration of potential shifts to help prevent further burnout.
burnout
Life transitions, whether expected or surprising, often leave us feeling adrift, grieving, and uncertain on steps forward. Career shifts, divorce, empty nesting, shifting parenting experiences from child to tween/teen experiences, new blended families, caregiver for aging parents, and more, are all destabilizing experiences even when we prepared for them. I help guide clients through these experiences, often touching on grief, anxiety, exploring identity shifts, frustrations, depression, or uncertainty in next steps.
life transitions
olivia wright, lmft 142796, ma
magnolia therapy & wellness
In person and online throughout CaliforniaOffice Location:
970 Reserve Drive, Suite 170 Roseville, CA 95678
Olivia@MagnoliaTherapyServices.org
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