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Women's Issues
Whether you’re raising a family, supporting a spouse, or thriving in a vocation, women today juggle immense responsibilities while striving to stay true to themselves. New Life Counseling center provides counseling for women on specific issues that pertain to a woman's life challenges.
Counseling through a natural family system lens offers a way to understand how family dynamics shape the unique challenges of being a working wife, mother, or professional. This isn’t about chasing fleeting cultural trends—it’s about finding clarity, strength, and balance to honor your roles at home and work. It can be difficult to offer your best self in relationships if you are struggling internally with emotional issues or various mental health issues.
Here are just a few examples of women’s issues (certainly not an exhaustive list) that you can work on in counseling:
Women at all Stages of Life
​Counseling for women can be helpful at many stages of life. Perhaps you’re a young woman just starting out, going to college and discerning your life goals, and need some support to work on your identity. Perhaps you’re a grandmother dealing with tensions or demands between the grandchildren and your own children. Or perhaps you’re a single mom or you’re recovering from a difficult break-up. Women’s mental health can be affected at all these stages of life in particular ways, especially with the added reality of living in a cyclical and hormonal way and how much our body influences our mood. We have therapists that can help you navigate issues particular to women.
Differentiation of Self: Balancing Work, Family, and Faith
​Women often feel torn between career demands, family duties, and personal convictions. There are so many demands that even a woman’s daily tasks can feel overwhelming, leaving her depressed or anxious. Somehow that cultural expectation persists that women should be able to “do it all”.
Our therapists can help you clarify and solidify your identity. Working on being more of a solid self in all areas of life has the potential to transform one’s relationships and just simply how one lives out each day. And a lack of sense of self can lead to burnout or losing sight of your priorities. What would it mean to be more of a self in your marriage? What could it mean to show up with a more solid self at work? And what about in your role as a mother, or a sister, or a friend? Our therapists can help coach you through such reflection questions, and we offer working women tools to strengthen marriages, raise principled children, and excel professionally without compromising their beliefs.
Generational Patterns: Preserving Principles, Healing Struggles
​Each woman has a place in her multi-generational story. From mothers who modeled self-sacrifice to grandmothers who upheld family traditions, women inherit both strengths and challenges in their family tree, and sometimes become burdened because of it, suffering with intense expectations or taking on too much responsibility.
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Working from a family systems perspective, we can help you cultivate attentiveness to multigenerational patterns and see how these patterns may be affecting your approach to parenting, marriage, or workplace stress, or even just how you think about yourself and manage your own ups and downs.
Such an effort by a woman in one generation has the potential to have positive ripple effects in many generations to come.
Emotional Triangles: Managing Roles Without Losing Yourself
Due to our relational nature, women often get caught in what is called, in Bowen theory, emotional triangles. This is when an emotional problem between two people gets outsourced to a third party, such as mediating between colleagues, soothing family tensions, or feeling pulled between the children’s needs and your spouse’s expectations. Emotional triangles are an automatic stress response – not a thing to feel bad about, but a thing to understand and master.
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Without new ways to navigate this, these dynamics can drain your energy in the long run, making you feel like you’re holding everything together, and contributing to mental health symptoms. Learn how to navigate these roles with grace and healthy boundaries, and receive coaching on how to show up well in intense emotional situations.
Stress and the Working Woman: Finding Calm in the Chaos
​Another element of women and careers, beyond balance and building identity, is simply managing the stress and demands on the job site. Juggling a career amid everything else in a woman’s life can be a lot. And even in our day and age there can be workplace dynamics that are more of a challenge if one is a woman. What ways do you struggle with stress in the work place? Oftentimes in front of so many demands, one can get stuck in the mode of reacting to the demands, instead of responding well according to one’s goals and values. When high levels of stress affects our ability to regulate emotional intensities and respond well in workplace situations, counseling for women can help.
Did you know that stress and chronic anxiety, while also arising in the workplace, are more fundamentally tied to your family relationships? Unresolved tensions in one’s family of origin or nuclear family (e.g., a parent’s expectations or spousal dynamics) can amplify workplace pressures, and vice versa. After all, it’s the same “you” who is a part of both systems!
And perhaps you are one of those women who pursues a career and also a rich family life. It has long been shown that the health of one’s relationships has a long-standing impact on one’s physical and mental health. We invite you to explore tools in counseling to manage anxiety, stay grounded in your faith, and lead with confidence at work.
Why this Matters
At New Life Counseling Center, we believe that solid psychological theory (at New Life you’ll find Bowen Family Systems Theory, an understanding of trauma work through EMDR, and Object Relations attachment work) can provide a timeless, principles-driven framework for women to navigate their multifaceted lives—identity, family, career, and faith—without losing themselves. It’s about honoring the life you have created, gaining emotional strength, becoming more solid in who you are, and increasing your psychological durability and flexibility as we help you discover new options to face stuck problems . Share this article to inspire women to embrace their God-given strengths and create balanced, meaningful lives, and send us an email if you’d like to start on your healing journey today.