Women’s Counseling at Groundwork in Orlando can be successful in helping you redefine meaning and purpose for your work and family life, and find a renewed sense of peace and fulfillment in your everyday life.Many women suffer stress from the need for perfection in all their roles. Many of the responsibilities that women juggle are associated with increased risk for depression. Women often feel conflicted between meeting the needs of others and taking care of themselves, often losing a sense of who they are and what is important. Whether you are in mid-life and facing pressures from divorce, widowhood or health challenges or whether you are a quarter-lifer dealing with unrealistic expectations and stretched too thin from striving to meet too many demands created by multiple roles and responsibilities, counseling offers an opportunity to improve self-empowerment, resolve anger and resentment, build self-esteem, achieve work-life balance and make positive changes to live the happy and productive life you deserve. Counseling begins with the process of self-awareness and identifying your strengths. Women’s counseling can help you accept yourself and find peace with who you are.

Many women struggle with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, sexual issues or say that they just don’t feel happy or fulfilled. These issues often emerge during life transitions such as beginning a new career, starting a family, children starting school, becoming an empty nester, going through menopause, ending a marriage, facing job changes or retirement.  During these times, a woman’s life can feel out of balance.

Women’s Challenges We Treat
(If you are currently experiencing a challenge that is not included on this list, please call our office)
• Anxiety
• Assertiveness Issues
• Aging Parents
• Balance Home and Work Life
• Blended Family Issues
• Body Image
• Career Change
• Caregiver Stress
• Children Starting School
• Communication Difficulties
• Co-Dependent Relationships
• Depression
• Divorce or Separation
• Emotional Eating
• Empty Nest
• Family Conflicts
• Fear of Saying No
• Feeling Exhausted, Depleted or Overwhelmed
• Feeling Unhappy, Unfulfilled or Out of Balance
• Grief and Loss
• Health Concerns
• Job Loss or Job Stress
• Low Self-Esteem
• Major Life Transitions
• Marriage Issues
• Menopause and Perimenopause
• Mid-Life Crisis
• Negative Thought Patterns
• Parenting Struggles
• People Pleasing Issues
• Post Partum Depression
• Phobias and Panic Attacks
• Quarter-Life Crisis
• Relationship Problems
• Retirement Challenges
• Resentment and Bitterness
• Sadness or Hopelessness
• Setting Realistic Goals
• Sexual Issues
• Single Parenting
• Starting a Family
• Stress
• Sexual Abuse
• Trauma
• Unrealistic Expectations

Counseling can also help women with these challenges:

• Relieve stress and manage anxiety
• Eliminate negative self-talk
• Experience more fulfilling relationships
• Increase a sense of peace and enjoyment in day-to-day life
• Establish a healthier lifestyle
• Become a stronger, more confident and loving parent.
• Learn new ways of self-care using the mind, body, and spirit connection
• Renewed sense of control over your life
• Define meaning and purpose for your work and family life
• Reduce feelings of sadness, hopelessness or worry
• Improve performance at school or work
• Lift depression
• Achieve self-acceptance and inner peace
• Bring more joy into your life
• Heal old hurts and wounds
• Resolve anger and resentment
• Achieve a work-life balance
• Improve self-empowerment
• Process unresolved issues
• Gain more control over your life
• Build self-esteem
• Become more assertive
• Set clear boundaries and limits
• Communicate more effectively so that you get what you need.
• Learn how to make positive changes
• Achieve a sense of wholeness and well-being
• Examine unrealistic expectations and create more realistic goals for life
• Eliminate negative and faulty thought patterns and habits
• Establish new thought patterns to set you up for success
• Learn how to stop repeating negative relationship patterns
• Let go of thoughts and feelings that hold you back such as regrets, bitterness, and resentment
• Learn to express emotions and feelings in a healthy manner

Could You Benefit From Women’s Counseling?

• Do you find yourself caring for others, but seldom taking time to take care of yourself?
• Do you have a tendency to take on too much without setting limits?
• Do you often feel that you are stretched too thin, exhausted or depleted?
• Are you uncertain how to handle the unexpected changes in your life?
• Are you tired of going in circles around the same old issues?
• Do you feel pressured by friends, family or society to be someone different than who you are?
• Have you ever felt you are juggling too much at the cost of your own well-being?
• Do you do everything for everyone else and you’re still not happy?
• Do anxieties or fears keep you from living the life you dream of?
• Do you fixate and worry about the same things over and over?
• Do you find yourself becoming more irritable and angry?
• Are you at mid-life, wondering “where do I go from here?”