Hormone-Related Mental Health
Serving clients locally in San Rafael & virtually throughout California & Washington
Hormonal Shifts & Emotional Changes
I work with people navigating hormonal mental health changes across many contexts—PMDD, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, and gender-affirming hormone transitions—through a trauma-informed, somatic, and mindfulness-based approach.
Hormonal changes can bring emotional and mental shifts that feel unfamiliar and overwhelming. You may notice mood swings, anxiety, low mood, or a sense that your reactions and capacity aren’t the same as they used to be.
If you already carry a history of anxiety, trauma, ADHD, PMDD, OCD, or depression, this can amplify what’s already there. What once felt manageable may no longer feel that way, and your usual ways of coping may stop working.
Working With Your System, Not Against It
My approach creates space to slow down and begin understanding what’s happening in your body and mind. Rather than pushing symptoms away, we start to track them—how they rise, how they move, and what they’re connected to. A somatic, mindfulness-based approach supports your body in settling when emotions surge, helping you stay more grounded in the midst of intensity.
Mood shifts are not only hormonal—they are shaped by how your nervous system responds to stress, change, and accumulated life experience. We may explore relational dynamics, attachment wounds, identity shifts, or the impact of long-held stress. These patterns don’t exist in isolation—they’re shaped by the environments and systems you’ve had to adapt to.
Liberatory and Anti-Oppressive Healing
We live in a patriarchal system that has historically dismissed, minimized, and under-researched hormonal mental health for non-cis men. The result is a lack of accurate information, limited access to care, and a culture that stigmatizes emotional experience—especially when it is connected to the body.
Part of my approach is recognizing how that becomes internalized over time. The self-criticism, the shame, and the belief that you’re “too much,” unstable, or somehow failing are not happening in a vacuum. They are shaped by the cultural messages you’ve been exposed to and the ways your experience has been misunderstood or dismissed.
In our work together, we name the patriarchal conditioning for what it is and begin to shift your relationship to it. Rather than meeting yourself with judgment or trying to control what you feel, the process is about developing awareness, compassion, and a deeper understanding of what your system is moving through.
Perimenopause & Menopause
Perimenopause and menopause often coincide with other meaningful life transitions—changes in family roles, relationships, career direction, or caring for aging parents. These shifts can bring both grief and new possibilities.
This phase can also become an opening. As what once worked begins to shift, you may feel called to reconnect with your needs, your boundaries, and what actually matters to you. There can be grief in that process, and there can also be clarity, depth, and a different kind of strength.
My approach creates space to process these transitions while also supporting the emotional challenges that come with hormonal changes. Rather than pushing your experience aside or trying to fix it, we begin to understand it—how your body is responding, what’s being stirred, and what is asking for attention.
Over time, this becomes a process of reconnecting with yourself in a more grounded and intentional way.
Ready to Dive In ?
I offer a free 20-minute consultation to learn more about my approach and services, and see if its a good fit.