Midlife Transition Sessions

What is a midlife transition?

A midlife transition is the slower work of adapting after a major part of your life ends: a marriage, a parent, a career, a body that worked a certain way. The event happens fast. Becoming the woman who lives after it takes longer. A 50-minute session usually ends right when you get somewhere.

 

This is for you if

• Something big has shifted: perimenopause, a divorce, a parent’s death, a job ending, your last child starting school.

• You’re anxious, stressed or running on empty. You’re not in crisis, but a weekly check-in isn’t enough.

• You’ve done some therapy and you know your patterns.

• You keep thinking you should be further along by now.

If perimenopause is part of the picture, your OB-GYN can treat the hormonal side. If the anxiety or irritability is still there, there may be more underneath, and that’s what we work on here. Your OB-GYN treats the hormones. I work on what they stirred up.

 

What happens in two hours

• 0 to 20 min · Arrive and settle. Breath, grounding, letting your body catch up.

• 20 to 65 min · What’s happening now. What’s working, and what isn’t.

• 65 to 75 min · A break. Water, a short walk, the bathroom.

• 75 to 110 min · Going deeper. EMDR, sandplay or body-based work, when it fits.

• 110 to 120 min · Landing. What you’re taking with you, and what happens next.

 

How the work moves

• Name it. What’s ending, and what’s still standing.

• Grieve it. The losses under the anxiety: a role, a body, an imagined future.

• Untangle it. The older patterns this change has stirred up. EMDR fits here when it’s the right tool.

• Build it. Your next decisions, made with what you now know.

Adapted from William Bridges’ transition model.

 

Two ways to book

• A single session · $495. Two hours. Most women start weekly for 4 to 6 sessions, then move to every other week or monthly.

• The Midlife Transition Series · $1,850. Four two-hour sessions over 8 weeks, with a week between each so the work can settle into real life.

Which one? If something just happened and you’re barely getting through the day, start with single sessions. The Series fits once the worst is over and the question becomes who you are now.

Book a free 15-minute call

 

Questions

Do I have to do EMDR? No. Sessions can be mostly talk-based. EMDR is there if it becomes useful.

Can I keep my current therapist? Yes, and many women do. With your permission, I’m glad to write to your therapist before we start and again at the end.

Will insurance cover a two-hour session? Usually it’s reimbursed as one session, not two. I’m private pay and provide a superbill. Call your plan and ask about your out-of-network mental health benefit.

How is this different from an EMDR Intensive? An Intensive is a half day of structured EMDR on a specific memory. A Midlife Transition Session follows what’s happening in your life. If you have a specific memory to work on, choose the Intensive. If you’re in the middle of a change and can’t hear yourself think, choose this.