You keep the whole family running. Where does your name go on that list?
The pediatrician appointments, the birthday parties, the school emails, the meal planning, and the emotional weather of everyone in the house. You're tracking all of it, usually in your head, often while also working a job and trying to be a decent partner. Women's therapy at Little Dove Counseling exists for the parts of you that never make it onto anyone's to-do list.
What brings women into this room
Very few of the moms we see show up saying "I have anxiety" or "I'm depressed." They show up saying things closer to this:
"I love my kids and I'm still touched out by 6pm every single day"
"I don't recognize how snappy I've become"
"I lost myself somewhere in the last few years and I want to find her again"
"I'm the default parent for everything and I'm exhausted by being the only one who notices what needs to happen"
"Something from my own childhood keeps surfacing now that I'm raising kids"
"I look fine from the outside. I am not fine on the inside"
If any of that sounds familiar, that's the work. Not because something is wrong with you, but because carrying a family's mental load without support is genuinely hard on a person.
Your therapy, not another family meeting
If your child is already in therapy with someone on our team, your sessions are your own. This isn't a parenting debrief and it isn't couples counseling under a different name. It's an hour built around you: your history, your stress, your patterns, and what you actually need.
Because Little Dove Counseling was built around child and family development, your therapist isn't guessing at what your week looks like when you say "the mornings are a disaster" or "I can't get five minutes alone." That context shapes the work from session one.
If your family is also working through parent therapy with our team, your individual sessions stay separate and confidential.
What sessions look like?
Early sessions focus on the real picture: what's weighing on you most right now, what you've already tried, and what relief would actually look like.
The ongoing work often includes untangling identity from the endless list of tasks, setting boundaries with a partner, a parent, or your own inner critic, and working through where old patterns (from your own upbringing, a past relationship, or years of putting yourself last) are still running the show.
Pace is yours to set. Some women want weekly sessions to get through a hard season. Others come every other week for steady, ongoing support.
You don't need permission to want this
You don't need a crisis to justify therapy, and you don't need to wait until you're "bad enough" to deserve an hour that's just yours. Wanting to feel like yourself again is enough of a reason.
Frequently asked questions
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No. We see women at every stage, from new motherhood through parenting teenagers, as well as women without children who are working through family-of-origin patterns or relationship stress.
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Your sessions are confidential and separate. If other family members are also working with Little Dove Counseling, that overlap is only ever handled with your knowledge and input.
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Not at all. Parenting is often the entry point, but sessions go wherever is most useful for you, including identity, relationships, work, and your own history.
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Reach out through our contact page and we'll set up an initial conversation to see if it's a good fit.