Women’s Therapy in Salt Lake City, UT

Managing chaos appears to be your lot in life.

You’ve got 15 minutes before your husband gets home, and you still haven’t started dinner.

Two of the kids are arguing at the top of their lungs in the basement. Another has decided she’s the new Picasso, drawing all over your kitchen table – AND in permanent marker.

All the work spent cleaning up toys and scrubbing seems to become undone in the blink of an eye.

You want nothing more than to lock the door, crawl into bed, and cry.

But you’re the adult. Right?

You are weighed down with myriad responsibilities to keep kids fed, clean, and clothed.

You are the designated chauffeur who drives kids to ball practice, music lessons, and their friend’s house. You are the one who listens to their problems and is perfectly patient when they argue.

You are the chief cook and bottle washer who makes brownies for the second-grade class, prepares an activity where you volunteer weekly, makes healthy AND delicious meals.

Your husband wants to have more sex, and you want to lose 15 pounds – the list goes on and on. And all these things feel NECESSARY.

You are drowning in expectations.

These expectations present a constant theme (with some slight variation) for each of the women we’ve worked with over the years.

You’re inundated with expectations of how you should be a woman, wife, mother, and employee. Some expectations seem to fit with what you value and want for yourself, but others run against the grain.

With so many plates to keep spinning, you sometimes wonder if you even know what you want anymore.

Your identity is more wrapped up in the family and the things you do at home than in things that make you a unique, valuable individual, and it leaves you feeling lost.

Neglecting yourself pushes you further under the water.

Eventually, this grind comes with a cost. You feel frazzled and tense at home, snapping quickly at those you love. It’s scary to think you might lose control one day and take things too far.

You no longer know how to talk with your life partner, and unwanted arguments become the bulk of your communication.

Exhaustion permeates everything you do, making you feel inadequate. Hopelessness and anxiety (and maybe the wine bottle) have become your closest friends because you don’t have the time and don’t feel you deserve to keep genuine friendships.

You feel guilt focusing on personal wants and needs, and the thought “What I want doesn’t matter,” runs through your head on autopilot.

What you want DOES matter!

Your life doesn’t need to keep running solely on the expectations that society sets for you. You DESERVE happiness, fulfillment, peace, AND the ability to choose what direction YOU want your life to go.

In individual therapy with a professional therapist, we’ll look at what is important to you as an individual. We’ll work together to identify what you value and want in your life.

Then, we’ll see what fits with those values in what you’re currently doing. We’ll also explore new, positive experiences you can add to better align with your values and start debunking some of the negative messages you and society have about what kind of woman you should be.

Becoming more aligned with your values will result in lasting confidence, enjoyment, and satisfaction in the life you choose.

We invite you to contact ue today for a free consultation and see for yourself that we can be the right fit for you to build the life you want.