Therapy for Perimenopause in Chicago

Identity-affirming care in an intentionally-small and inclusive environment in Logan Square and Avondale

Are you struggling with perimenopause?

Most of us have heard of at least one million symptoms that can be attributed to perimenopause, but common symptoms due to fluctuating estrogen and progesterone include:

  • New or worsening anxiety and low mood

  • Irritability, brain fog, and memory lapses

  • Sleep disruption and night sweats

  • Loss of confidence or a sense of not feeling like yourself

  • Changes in libido and in how you feel in your body

Perimenopausal mood symptoms are frequently mistaken for burnout or "midlife stress.”. Women with a history of PMDD, postpartum depression, or depression are more likely to experience mood changes during this transition.

At Common Thread Counseling Chicago, we hope to validate your experience, help you feel understood, connect you with resources, and develop practical tools for navigating this phase.

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Our Specialized, Holistic Approach to Therapy for Perimenopause

Our work together will consider you in a holistic context: your neurobiology, your life circumstances, your history, and your unique goals.

We want to provide a space for you to feel heard and understood.

Calendar for tracking PMDD and PME and how this can be helpful in therapy.

Therapy offers a space to make sense of what's happening, practice radical acceptance, adjust, and find strengths during a major life transition. We can help you to address sleep problems, integrate your experience, and assimilate your identity. We can assist with referrals for medical providers to discuss hormone therapy or medication.

Therapists at Common Thread can help.

Techniques We Use at Our Therapy Practice

  • The most evidence-backed approach for habits; focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and directly targets the patterns that maintain a habit.

  • Helps you make room for uncomfortable urges/emotions without acting on them, while committing to actions aligned with your values, as well as practicing cognitive defusion.

  • Dialectical behavioral therapy, which is useful when habits are tied to emotional regulation difficulties; teaches distress tolerance, mindfulness, and alternative coping skills.

  • Reduce stress reactivity and improve your awareness of body sensations, emotions, and cycle-related patterns.

  • Strengthens communication and support in your relationships, especially during role transitions and midlife changes.

  • Support women whose symptoms are tied to past trauma or who feel disconnected from their bodies.

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