Therapy for Women in Midlife & Menopause
A refuge for exploration, understanding, healing & empowerment
Midlife women face unique challenges
Hello, I’m Lynda. As well as being a woman in midlife, I’ve worked with many midlife women in my therapy practice. It’s a period when questioning and shifts may begin – e.g. in our identities, relationships, or self-image.
In my practice I’ve identified some common challenges for midlife women.
Hormonal impacts on mood & stability – Levels of oestrogen and progesterone start to fall from our 40s. You may be struggling with sleep, hot flushes, low libido, anxiety, mood swings, forgetfulness, changing self-image and more.
Lasting impacts of rigid parenting – Current struggles may be compounded by an upbringing where compliance was expected, but emotions weren’t always tolerated. If you had to ‘be a good girl’ to feel accepted, it can set up a pattern of people-pleasing, low self-esteem, and suppressing emotions.
Expectations – It’s common for Gen X women to reach midlife having spent years – often decades – meeting spoken and unspoken expectations. Needing to be a ‘good’ woman, wife, partner, mother, may have meant self-neglect. But resentment is hard to express when we’ve been conditioned to quietly cope.
Grief & Loss – This life stage can involve multiple and overlapping forms of grief including loss of fertility, loss of and ageing parents, children becoming independent, or regrets – “the paths not taken”.
Changing relationships – Relationships can face renewed pressure, scrutiny, or transformation. Your emotional wellbeing may be straining your relationships. Or maybe you’re questioning whether a current long-term partnership is still right for you.
Work challenges – Work may feel even more challenging and uncertain. Perhaps you feel more tired, burned out, and lack concentration. And you fear being judged or sidelined by colleagues. Or maybe you’re feeling ‘less than’ as you step back from full-time work.
Individual therapy for women in midlife
As a midlife, perimenopausal woman – I get it. I offer a refuge free of expectation and judgement. A space where you can reflect, reconnect with yourself, and deepen your self-awareness.
In my practice I offer a combination of talk therapy and EMDR therapy to suit your needs.
Talk therapy – offers a calm, confidential space where you can say things out loud, untangle your emotions, and explore as well as – make sense of – your past and present.
EMDR therapy – midlife doesn’t just bring new challenges – it can also re-activate old emotional wounds.
Talk therapy can bring understanding of patterns at a thinking level but this doesn’t always change your feelings. You might notice that the same feelings keep showing up, no matter how much insight you have. This is where EMDR can be really powerful.
With EMDR I help you reconnect with your emotions by offering healing tools that emphasise the connection between your mind and body. Helping you to confront and overcome patterns that come up as things like anxiety, low mood or feeling less than.
My aim is to help women in midlife feel good enough about themselves to embrace this phase of life with hope, vigour, and empowerment.
Individual therapy costs: £75 per 50mins
Online group therapy for women in midlife
I’m currently (as at April 2026) considering expanding my offer of therapy for women in midlife, to an online therapy group beginning later this year.
Group therapy offers unique benefits, which differ from individual therapy, including:
A place to grow through connection and sharing your experiences with other midlife women
Though your individual experiences are unique, you may also resonate with the experiences of others
A place to be helped via the collective wisdom of others, but also to help others by sharing your own insights
How would it work?
Groups sessions would take place online, bi-weekly and be 90mins long. Groups would be capped at a maximum 6 people.
Costs would be: £60 per fortnight. This includes your place in the group and a 30min one-to-one with me every 3 months.
TBC but sessions would take place either: Tuesday mornings at 10am OR Wednesday afternoons at 4pm.
Please register your interest in group therapy using the form below.
