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Women's Health Therapy
Feel more connected to your body and yourself
Process the emotional weight of what you have been carrying
Move through this chapter with understanding and self-compassion
Understanding Women's Health Somatically
Women’s health conditions are so often treated in isolation, the physical managed by one specialist, the emotional left unaddressed entirely. But the body and the mind are not separate. Chronic pain, hormonal shifts, fertility challenges, and reproductive health experiences all live in the nervous system, in the identity, and in the heart, not just in the body.
Therapy offers a space to tend to the whole of your experience, the grief, the anger, the exhaustion, the pain, the parts of yourself that have had to go quiet just to get through it.
"The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of rage, the ice of grief."
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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What is Women's Health Therapy?
Women’s health therapy recognizes that conditions like endometriosis, PCOS / PMOS, pelvic floor dysfunction, fertility challenges, and the hormonal transitions of perimenopause and menopause carry a profound emotional and psychological dimension that medicine alone cannot reach.
Many women arrive in therapy having spent years focused on managing their physical symptoms, the appointments, the treatments, the diagnoses, with little space to process what all of it has meant for their sense of self, their relationships, and their inner life, or to reflect on emotional roots of the imbalance. This is that space.
If you are experiencing:
- Chronic pelvic pain, painful intercourse, or vaginismus and its impact on your identity and relationships
- The emotional toll of an endometriosis or PCOS / PMOS diagnosis
- Grief and exhaustion from a fertility journey that has not gone the way you hoped
- Pregnancy loss and the isolation of mourning something others may not always recognize as loss
- Anxiety, depression, or identity shifts connected to perimenopause or menopause
- Disconnection from your body after years of pain, medical appointments, or feeling dismissed
- The impact of a medical diagnosis, surgery, or procedure that left emotional residue
- Body shame or a complicated relationship with your physical self
- Sexual health and intimacy challenges connected to pain, hormonal shifts, or life transitions
- The experience of feeling unseen or misunderstood by the healthcare system
Soulful Therapy can help you feel understood, supported, and more at home in yourself.
Meet Our Team
Meet the anxiety therapists at Soulful Therapy. Virtual appointments available across Ontario.
Breanne Benson
Registered psychotherapist (Qualifying)
PhD Doctoral Student, Transpersonal Psychology
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Isabel Moriche
MSW
Registered Social Worker
- Complex Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Cognitive Change
- Grief
- Migration Stress
- Housing Insecurity
- Aging
- Crisis
- English / Spanish Speaking
Sara Hashimi
Registered Social Worker
- Adults, Teens and Youth
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Anxiety
- Childhood Trauma
- Birth Trauma
- Parenting
- Depression
- Grief
- And More!
Laura Farberman
MSW, RSW
Clinic Founder, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma Therapy
- Yoga Therapy
- And More!
Anna Kemp
M.A. Counselling Psychology, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
- Adults, Teens and Youth
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings & Weekends
- Couples Therapy
- Communication issues
- Parenting Challenges
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- And More!
Chantelle McEwen
Registered Psychotherapist
- Adults
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Daytime, Evenings
- Trauma
- Inner Child
- Anxiety
- Childhood Abuse and Neglect
- Chronic Illness
- Women's Health
- Parenting
- Complex and Developmental Trauma
Lisa Cipparone
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Somatic Therapist, Brainspotting Therapist
- Adults 18+
- Virtual Sessions Available
- Days, Evenings and Weekends
- Soul Work
- Spiritual Journey
- Chronic Illness
- Inner Child Work
- And More!
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At Soulful Therapy, we facilitate healing using the following approaches:
Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry is a sacred journey in healing, integration, and personal growth. It invites you to explore your emotions, beliefs, and past experiences with curiosity and empathy, free from judgment. We help you identify the root of your challenges, guiding you toward self-discovery, self-acceptance, and a deeper understanding of your true self.
Brainspotting Therapy
Brainspotting Therapy™ is a gentle, body-based approach that uses specific eye positions, or “brainspots,” to help you access emotions and experiences that may be difficult to put into words. It can support deeper processing of trauma, stress, and other patterns held in the body and nervous system.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy can help when you know you want to move forward, but certain memories, triggers, or emotional reactions still have a strong hold on you. By helping your brain process difficult experiences in a new way, EMDR can make those experiences feel less overwhelming, so you may feel calmer, more grounded, and more able to respond to life from the present rather than from the past.
Emotions Focussed Couples Therapy
The EFT Couples Therapy Intensive is designed for couples who love each other but feel stuck in the same arguments, distance, or disconnection. Through focused, extended sessions, you can begin to understand what’s really happening underneath those patterns, feel more seen and understood by each other, and find a clearer path back to connection.
Expressive Art Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy offers another way to explore what you’re feeling when words don’t quite capture it. Through creative expression, it can help you process difficult emotions, reconnect with yourself, build confidence, and rediscover a sense of playfulness, curiosity, and possibility.
Inner Child Integration
Inner Child Integration is a powerful way to reconnect with and reparent the parts of you that are often triggered. This method gently guides you to feel your childhood emotions and experiences with all of your adult capacities. By doing this, you can integrate the earliest times when your needs went unmet, which continue to impact your current-day reactions, behaviours, and patterns. We offer a kind and safe place for you to accept yourself with compassion, and a peaceful way to attend to your inner child when you are triggered.
NARM Therapy
NARM Therapy can help you understand the patterns that formed when you were trying to feel safe, connected, or accepted—and gently begin to loosen their hold. Rather than reliving the past, NARM helps you reconnect with yourself in the present so you can feel more grounded, more authentic, and more free to choose how you move forward.
Nervous System RESET Therapy
Nervous System RESET Therapy helps you become more aware of how stress shows up in your body and learn gentle ways to help your system settle. Over time, you can feel more grounded, more resilient, and better able to move through life’s ups and downs with a greater sense of calm, safety, and ease.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy helps you notice and understand the ways stress and past experiences can show up in your body—through tension, numbness, restlessness, or feeling overwhelmed. By gently working with those body-based reactions, you can build a greater sense of safety, self-trust, and calm without having to relive everything that happened.
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy honours the deep connection between your mind and body and acknowledges that traumatic experiences can be held in the body, not just in thoughts or emotions. As you become more aware of these sensations in the body, you can attend to the needs that they are expressing and heal the physical and emotional impacts of your experiences. Through breathwork, body scanning, movement, focusing, and mindfulness, we integrate your bodily experiences with your emotional and mental processing, allowing you to release tension and gain profound insights, restoring balance and overall well-being.
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How Can Women's Health Therapy Help?
Nervous System Regulation
Learn to recognize when your system is activated by pain, fear, or grief, and develop tools to find steadiness in your body and in your life.
Fertility & Pregnancy Loss
Hold space for the emotional weight of reproductive treatments, pregnancy loss, and infant death in a way that honours the depth of that experience.
Birth Trauma & Grief
Hold space for birth experiences that felt frightening or out of your control, and for losses that may not always be recognized by others.
Hormonal Transitions
Explore the identity shifts, mood changes, and emotional complexity that come with perimenopause and menopause, with curiosity rather than judgment.
Body Reconnection
Gently rebuild a relationship with your body that is not defined by pain, diagnosis, or what it can or cannot do.
Medical Trauma Support
Process the experience of feeling dismissed, misdiagnosed, or unsupported within the healthcare system, because that experience matters too.
We move at a pace that honours your energy and your history. This is not about pushing through or thinking positively. It is about being genuinely met in what you are carrying.
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What We Explore Together
- Chronic pelvic pain and the psychological impact of living in a body in pain
- Pelvic floor dysfunction, including the anxiety, shame, and relationship strain it can create
- Endometriosis and PCOS / PMOS, processing diagnosis, grief, and identity
- Fertility grief and the emotional weight of reproductive treatments
- Pregnancy loss and the isolation of mourning what others may not fully see
- Perimenopausal and menopausal anxiety, depression, and identity shifts
- Attachment and the parent-child relationship
- Body image and the relationship many women have with their bodies over time
- Sexual health and intimacy after pain, trauma, diagnosis, or life transitions
- Medical trauma and the experience of feeling dismissed or unseen in healthcare
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How Healing Can Look With Women's Health Therapy
Your healing moves at its own pace, as different parts of you become ready. Over time, you may notice:
- A deeper sense of safety and connection within your own body
- More capacity to be with difficult emotions rather than managing around them
- Healing from medical experiences that have stayed with you
- A renewed relationship with your identity beyond your diagnosis or symptoms
- Greater ease in your relationships and in your intimate life
- Self-compassion for what your body has been through and what it continues to carry
- A sense of being truly understood, perhaps for the first time
Discover what it feels like to be held in the fullness of your experience
Are you ready to start exploring your best self?
How To Get Started
Whether you’re in the thick of it right now or just beginning to find the words for what you’ve been carrying, we’d be honoured to walk with you. Book a free 20-minute consultation and we’ll take the time to find the right therapist for where you are.
Offering online therapy sessions to individuals across Ontario.