Amee Elder, MA, LMHC, NCC
Counseling Services
The great thing about counseling is that it is not just about stressful events, crisis situations or difficult relationships; it's an investment to your overall wellness in your life. It can be a way to "tune up" your relationship, family or personal life so that things can run smoothly.
Individual Counseling
Individual sessions are in person and are approximately 50 minutes in length. They are private and confidential one-on-one meetings between the client and the therapist in order to address issues or current situations which may be negatively affecting one or more areas of life. These sessions are tailored to meet each client's needs and goals
Topics we can work through:
Anxiety
History of Sexual Abuse
Life transitions (new job, move, break up/divorce)
Relationships
Post traumatic stress disorder
Grief and loss
Trauma
Job difficulties
Communication issues
Stress management
Life coaching
Shame
Feelings of unworthiness
Women's Counseling
Are you a woman who is feeling overwhelmed or tired of how your relationship is going? Do you feel like you don’t have a voice or are not being heard in your life? Are you struggling with trying to do it all? We can work through your story that is keeping you feeling stuck, fearful and unheard. Believe me, I know that story and how powerful it can be.
Believe it or not, our story, the one we have been carrying with us almost our entire life, causes our anxieties, depression and fear. It can stop us from making certain choices in our life. It may even keep us in a relationship in which we are unhappy in. I am dedicated to creating a safe, supportive environment where women can explore their experiences, overcome trauma, and reclaim their inner strength. Through individualized treatment, I strive to foster resilience, self-awareness, and lasting change, helping women to lead fulfilling, empowered lives. Together we can work on finding your voice and your strength in order to re-write the story so that you can live your best life.
Topics we can work through:
Relationships
Career
Aging parents / Death of parents
Life transitions
Divorce
Assertiveness
Feelings of shame and unworthiness
Stress management
Family of origin issues
Perimenopause / Menopause
Perimenopause and life transition
I help women reveal their power, purpose, and passion by reclaiming perimenopause as their prime.
That's the work. Now let me tell you why it matters.
Picture it: A woman in her 40s. She's snapping at her kids over nothing, she is irritated at her spouse, over nothing. She can’t fall asleep. She's lying awake at 2 a.m. for no reason she can name. She feels a rage or a grief, an emotion that she doesn't recognize, it just shows up, uninvited, in the middle of an ordinary day.
She brings this to her doctor. And too often, she hears one of two things: "That's just hormones," or she walks out with a prescription for an antidepressant and no one has actually asked what's happening underneath.
Here's the problem: in the past, perimenopause has been treated like a medical footnote. A list of symptoms to manage. It has gotten better. More doctors are willing to discuss it and even prescribe hormone replacement therapy. But perimenopause isn't a footnote. It's a big psychological transition a woman will go through in her adult life and almost no one is helping her go through it.
Here's what I want every woman who is going through this to hear: this isn't decline. It's initiation.
Perimenopause strips away the performance — the roles, the people-pleasing, the version of herself she built to be acceptable, needed, easy to be around. What's left underneath is who she actually is.
The rage isn't a malfunction. The grief isn't weakness. They're information. They're parts of her that have been waiting a long time to be heard.
This is where I come in, with my experience and clinical training. I want to be specific, because this isn't just encouragement — it's a process.
With attachment theory, I look at how she learned — often decades ago — to manage others needs and emotions, so what's happening now actually makes sense in context. This isn't coming out of nowhere.
With Internal Family Systems, or parts work, we look at the rage, the numbness, the anxiety — I don't treat those as flaws to eliminate. They're parts of her doing a job. My work is helping her build a relationship with them, instead of fighting herself.
For a lot of women, this hormonal shift starts surfacing old, unprocessed material — old losses, old wounds, old versions of identity and as a Certified EMDR therapist, I can help process that material so it stops quietly running the show.
So, the goal isn't to help a woman manage her symptoms and get back to normal. Normal was often part of the problem.
The goal is for her to come out the other side of this transition actually knowing herself. Trusting herself. Living with more purpose and more clarity than she had before this season ever started.