Women’s Counseling
we get you.
Life is coming at you at full speed, but you find it hard to enjoy. Nothing feels like "enough", including you.
Women often lack support, resulting in over functioning and dependence on coping skills or relationships that aren’t fulfilling or supportive. We are trained in mind-body and relational strategies to help you resolve stuck places and connect to the deep wisdom and joy necessary to navigate all of life.
we got you
Pregnancy & Postpartum: Becoming the Mother You Want to Be
When a child is born, so is a mother. This unique developmental transition begins even before conception and can be a valuable component of growth and evolution for a woman.
Our counselors are trained in various skills that support this transition and all of its major challenges, including pregnancy anxiety and depression, Postpartum anxiety and depression, and birth trauma recovery. We are women willing to walk beside you in this rich transition of life so you can be the mother we already know you are.
How Counseling Can Help:
Navigate the emotional changes during pregnancy
Address anxiety and depression related to childbirth and motherhood
Build confidence as a new parent
Understand and process postpartum challenges like baby blues or postpartum depression (PPD)
Develop coping strategies for sensory overwhelm
Create a healthy, balanced relationship with yourself and your baby
Through counseling, you’ll have a compassionate space to explore your feelings, reduce anxiety, and adjust to the new rhythms of life with support and guidance.
here for it
Life Transitions: Embracing Change with Confidence
Women experience major life transitions like changing careers, starting a family, dealing with loss, divorce, perimenopause/menopause or jumping into unexpected roles.
Because women often over perform with lack of adequate support, these big transitions can often leave us feeling uncertain, burned out, lonely, and confused. Life’s transitions are rarely linear, and they can bring up old wounds or cause us to question our sense of identity.
How Counseling Can Help:
Building resilience in the face of major life changes
Exploring your goals, values, and self-worth during transitions
Overcoming feelings of self-doubt or imposter syndrome
Finding balance and peace during times of uncertainty
Life transitions can feel overwhelming, but you don't have to navigate them alone. Counseling can help you discover your inner strength, identify your core values, and make choices that align with your true self.
reclaim you
Burnout: Nurturing Yourself and Reclaiming Your Power
We are often taught to prioritize the needs of others, sacrifice our own desires, and conform to rigid expectations. This can leave us feeling drained, unheard, and disconnected from our true essence.
How Counseling Can Help:
Challenging limiting societal norms and beliefs that hold you back or push you forward too hard
Exploring the impact of gendered expectations on your mental health and relationships
Reclaiming your voice, power, and autonomy
Developing self-compassion and confidence authentic to you
Burnout recovery is about dismantling the internalized beliefs and societal pressures that limit your potential and your well-being. Counseling empowers you to break free, step into your power, and create a life that reflects your true identity.
break free
Mother Wound Healing: Nurturing Your Inner Child
Mother Wound healing addresses the deep-seated trauma many women and mothers face due to modern society’s pressures of perfection, competition over collaboration, and self-sacrifice. Healing the Mother Wound means acknowledging the pain, finding forgiveness (if needed), and reclaiming your self-worth.
How Counseling Can Help:
Exploring the impact of early maternal relationships with attachment and grief work
Breaking free from unhealthy patterns and expectations by exploring attachment styles and cognitions
Cultivating self-love and compassion, separate from external approval
Learning to trust your instincts and set healthy boundaries with mindfulness and somatic work
Healing the Mother Wound is a powerful journey that helps you transform old pain into self-empowerment. This healing path empowers you to reclaim your feminine essence that powers your vibrancy, power, evolution and connectivity to community.
How We Work with Women
At Illuminate, our counselors help you heal the impact of trauma and toxic conditioning using modern, effective, and feminist therapy rooted in compassion and clarity. Together, we’ll work to reduce burnout and reconnect you with the bold, vibrant woman you already are.
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Somatic Experiencing
SE focuses on the body's sensations and the way trauma is stored physically in the nervous system. The approach is based on the understanding that trauma can disrupt the body's natural ability to process and release stress or fear responses. Through gentle, controlled techniques, the therapist helps the individual safely complete the body's natural fight, flight, or freeze responses, allowing the nervous system to restore balance and release the energy trapped in the body.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT can help individuals identify and challenge negative beliefs formed due to trauma—such as feeling unworthy, unsafe, or helpless. By changing these thoughts and developing healthier coping mechanisms, trauma survivors can reduce feelings of anxiety, guilt, and depression, and learn to cope more effectively with reminders or triggers of the traumatic event.
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Trauma-Informed Counseling
Trauma-informed counseling is an approach that acknowledges the widespread impact of trauma and prioritizes safety, trust, and respect in the healing process. A trauma-informed therapist will not push the survivor to talk about their trauma until they’re ready, and will focus on creating a safe, nonjudgmental environment where healing can take place.
Why Seek Counseling
Heal the Feminine
Examine and release societal conditioning that tells women to stay small, selfless, or silent
Trust Yourself
Reconnect with your wisdom, set boundaries, and speak your truth with clarity and confidence
Heal from Trauma
Heal from the impact of power dynamics, gendered expectations, and cultural trauma
Deepen Identity
Exploring who you are outside of who you’ve been told to be and reconnect with your authentic self
Meet Your Specialists
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Meet Your Specialists ⚘
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Lauren Boland, LCSW
My heart-centered approach cultivates healing through attunement, nurture and collaboration. Working with me, your voice will be heard, your emotions validated, and your growth supported. I enjoy working with adults of all ages and genders and older teens and excel with trauma, anxiety, and neurodivergence.
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Alicia Boone, PCLC
I have a deep passion for supporting young women navigate life, pregnancy, miscarriage, and motherhood. Helping women understand and manage the unique challenges of ADHD is also a specialty, and I provide tools to improve emotional regulation, focus, and self-esteem
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Becky Johnston, LCSW
As a down-to-earth therapist, I have enough life experience to know that things don’t always go as planned. My warm and collaborative style is like a friend who asks all the good questions - but doesn’t steal your fries. I specialize in anxiety and depression for ages 16 through adulthood.
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Ellie Jorgensen, LCPC
My passion is helping individuals and families navigate life’s twists, turns, and roller coaster moments. I specialize in working with children, perinatal women, and family systems, focusing on challenges like childhood behavioral concerns, attachment, big life transitions, trauma, anxiety, and OCD.
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Tori Kenyon, LCSW
I try to bring a strong sense of professionalism, but also know that I have a naturally playful approach to connection. My varied clinical past has allowed me to develop confidence and skills working with all genders ages 16 to 35. I feel at my most skilled when I’m working with life transitions, trauma, anxiety, and depression.
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Sarah Webb, LCSW
I am passionate about burnout, anxiety, rage, postpartum, birth trauma, attachment, and healthy coping in women. With expert training in Somatic, Mindfulness, and Attachment, I get to the core quickly so therapy has big impact. Our collaboration will help you reclaim your power and vibrancy.
“positive impact…”
“My confidence as a mother is due to the support of therapy.”
— ILLUMINATE CLIENT
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Whether you're seeking clarity, healing, or growth, our team is here to support you in finding what you need.