Oakland Psychotherapy & Online Counseling
Women’s Issues
Mental health for women
Body image & weight loss| Dating | Work/life balance | Psychology & our body| Inequality | Insomnia
Body image & weight loss counseling
Losing weight, eating healthier, getting more sleep, exercising more. These all sound good. But they are major lifestyle changes.
Change is hard
If you’ve been unsuccessful in achieving your health goals, it’s likely because you haven’t addressed the psychological aspect of change. Therapy with me creates new ways of thinking. We will uncover unhelpful thoughts that keep you stuck. Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, I have helped clients lose over 15 pounds!
Getting out of our comfort zone
Psychotherapy with me with help you deal with the mental obstacles keeping you from creating a healthier lifestyle. Even good changes are hard. Because anything different from our norm involves a different perspective.
Create lasting results through therapy
Diets, exercise fads, fancy new workout equipment, and expensive gyms are often discarded by many of us after a period of time. This usually occurs because making these changes wasn’t aligned with our values. Knowing what’s most important to you is crucial to sticking to a new health regimen.
Thriving in a man’s world
As women we often are viewed and treated in ways that restrict our freedom and opportunities. Find your voice through therapy.
Learn how to speak up and take action so you can create the life you want.
Becoming more assertive and confident is the path to building your strength.
Therapy provides a space to discuss injustice and learn what we can do about it.
Work/Life Balance as a woman
Finding balance in your career and home can be a major struggle. If you need support creating stronger boundaries and learning how to say no and ask for what you want, then you’ve come to the right place.
Chloe Demisch, LCSW can help you identify what is missing in your life and help you make steps to attain it.
We wear many hats
Transitioning into motherhood is full of complicated changes and adjustments, many rewarding, many painful. As a mom, Chloe helps other women retain their identities while also embracing your new role.
Dating help and relationship counseling
Dating and relationships can be tough. Psychotherapy teaches you new skills and better ways to communicate to your partner.
Counseling can improve your endurance as you are trying to find your other half so you don’t become discouraged and lose your confidence.
We will discuss the values you hold for yourself and your ideal partner in relationships so you are better able to find your match.
How Mental Health may be connected to physical health
Many women seek psychotherapy when they are feeling pain or strain in their bodies. Below you will learn about typical physical health problems that are commonly connected to mental health struggles. Both men and women experience physical symptoms of depression and anxiety, however in my experience I have found that women in particular are afflicted with the following symptoms.
Stress management therapy for Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Many clients come to me with stomach pain, digestive issues, and an overall sense of “not feeling well”. After seeing doctor after doctor, many clients are either told “there’s nothing wrong” with them, or they have “IBS”. But what if it’s not?
Mental health problems frequently manifest as physical health symptoms.
Many times, after starting therapy these issues tend to significantly decrease or stop altogether.
Untreated anxiety & depression can cause stomach pain
I have treated multiple clients in therapy who were experiencing chronic pain, digestion problems, insomnia, and migraines and didn’t know why. Through psychotherapy, we uncovered deep underlying stress, fear, and sadness that they had never talked about. Get started with me today!
Migraines - How psychotherapy can help
Chronic headaches and migraines are also a common symptom many clients start therapy with. We often see them flare up when stress is high. Starting a new relationship, work anxiety, dating problems, dealing with conflict, and feeling out of control are common sources of headaches if the root mental health cause is left untreated.
Coping with stress to prevent migraines
Psychotherapy with me will teach you how to deal with anxious thoughts and all kinds of stress. Techniques such as grounding, deep breathing, self-validation, and taking an observational perspective are just a few things I will teach you in counseling sessions. You will find new ways to deal with migraines and headaches, starting with addressing your mental health.
Psychotherapy heals the body
Ignoring, suppressing, avoiding, or distracting ourselves from painful thoughts or emotions unfortunately doesn’t make them “go away”. If we don’t deal with psychological pain, it will inevitably rear it’s ugly head in other ways. Usually through the body.
Don’t push it away
Through Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), I will teach you how to “make room” for those thoughts and feelings you normally might push away. You’ll learn how to see them from a different perspective, so you can deal with them more effectively.
Together we can deal with mental health problems to begin your physical pain relief
Insomnia & anxiety therapy
Ruminating, obsessing, fixating, and a mind that is going in circles are all common symptoms of insomnia caused by anxiety.
Learn how to stop the vicious cycle of insomnia caused by stress.
We will help you find new ways of relating to your thoughts at night so you are able to come to a place of peace. Focusing on what you have control over and accepting what you don’t.
So you can finally get some sleep.
In addition to mental health techniques, I will also coach you on how to physically relax using deep breathing, body scans, progressive muscle relaxation, and grounding exercises.
A busy mind at night usually means you haven’t had a chance to process the difficult things.
Let me help you uncover the tough stuff. Have a place to vent. Unwind. Be free. Be heard.
Book today and receive a free 10-minute consultation