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Therapy for Women Navigating Emotional, Hormonal, and Life Transitions

Individual counselling is for those seeking personal growth, emotional regulation, or support through change — whether that’s adjusting to new roles, navigating anxiety or burnout, or managing the emotional toll of caregiving and frontline work.

Women often come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of who they’re becoming. I provide a warm, grounded space to explore the emotional seasons that shape your identity and wellbeing.

Areas of focus include:

  • Perimenopause & hormonal transitions

  • Pregnancy & postpartum shifts

  • Identity changes and life transitions

  • Emotional overwhelm & burnout

  • Body image, self-worth, and perfectionism

  • Fertility journeys, loss, and traumatic birth

  • Parenting stress & the invisible emotional load

  • PTSD and occupation stressors




Couples Counselling

For partners seeking to rebuild connection, improve communication, understand relationship patterns, or navigate major life changes together.

My approach is integrative and adaptive, blending Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and somatic‑informed practices. This means we look at your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, nervous system, and lived experiences as interconnected pieces. Therapy is a space for developing insight, building emotional regulation skills, and creating meaningful, sustainable change in your day-to-day life.

how therapy works

where sessions take place

  • Virtual across Ontario

  • In-person availability in Stratford Ontario

fee structure:

  • individual counselling: $150 per 50 minute session

  • couples counselling: $180 per 50 minute session

areas I support

Women’s Transitions

  • perimenopause

  • postpartum & pregnancy

  • emotional overwhelm

  • identity shifts

  • hormonal changes

  • body image & self-worth

  • fertility journeys, loss, traumatic birth

Relationship & Family Support

  • couples experiencing communication breakdown

  • navigating resentment, emotional distance

  • adjusting to new life stages

Stress & Burnout

  • caregiver fatigue, front line occupational stress and ptsd

  • emotional load of parenting

  • workplace burnout, life imbalance often related to high stress roles

  • grief work, terminal illness

Supervising Psychologist:  

Dr. Edward Murray Ph.D., Psy.D., M.A., C.Psych

  Registered Psychologist

            College of Psychologists of New Brunswick: # 636

            Member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario: #5020

            Canadian Register of Health Service Psychologist: #6260

Address: PO Box 730, Merrickville, Ontario, K0G 1N0

Phone: (613) 794-8124

Email: edward.murray@sympatico.ca

Website: https://www.edwardmurray.ca