Women carry so much. You don’t have to carry it alone.
At Giesken Counseling Services, we provide therapy specifically designed to support women through every season and every identity shift. Women often hold multiple roles at once: mother, partner, professional, caregiver, emotional manager, household manager, peacekeeper, high performer.
And while women are strong, women also deserve support, care, and space to breathe.
Being a woman comes with beautiful strengths — and unique pressures.
Why Women’s Issues Need Their Own Space in Therapy
Women experience mental health differently than men — biologically, socially, emotionally, and hormonally.
Women are more likely to experience:
anxiety and chronic worry
depression and emotional numbness
people-pleasing that leads to burnout
self-criticism and perfectionism
guilt for saying no
pressure to “do it all”
Women also experience unique life stages that can deeply affect identity, mood, and health:
infertility/pregnancy loss
pregnancy and postpartum emotional changes
birth trauma
mother identity shifts
PMDD / hormone-related mood struggles
perimenopause and menopause transitions
Therapy gives women a place to put down the mental load.
You don’t have to hold everything silently.
"A place to put the load down."
Signs It May Be Time to Talk With a Therapist
You feel overwhelmed by small things that didn’t used to bother you.
You’ve become short-tempered, irritable, or emotionally exhausted.
You’re trying your best, but still feel “not enough.”
You’re giving to everyone else and have nothing left for yourself.
You don’t even know how to relax anymore without guilt.
If any of these resonate — that is a sign your nervous system is tired, not that you’re failing.
In Therapy, Women Learn How To:
set boundaries without guilt
reduce anxiety and overthinking
improve self-worth and confidence
release pressure to be “perfect”
communicate needs more clearly
reconnect with identity outside of roles
Therapy is not weakness — it’s support.
Our Women’s Mental Health Services Include:
individual talk therapy
trauma-informed counseling
CBT and mindfulness-based approaches
A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy)/EMDR for trauma or birth trauma recovery
motherhood support therapy: prenatal anxiety, postpartum depression/anxiety, postpartum psychosis
hormone cycle-related mood support (PMS/PMDD)
In-person + virtual options available.