Women's Issues

I specialize in providing therapy for all women navigating life’s unique challenges. From managing career and family demands to addressing self-esteem, trauma, or societal pressures, I offer a supportive space to explore and heal. My approach focuses on empowering women to overcome obstacles, set boundaries, and prioritize their well-being. Whether you’re facing life transitions, relationship struggles, or personal growth challenges, I’m here to help you build resilience and live authentically.

I specialize in supporting women through a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, and relational concerns. I also work with many women experiencing the mental, emotional, and relational impact of changing hormones through perimenopause and menopause. While the medical field is continuing to develop in research and awareness around hormonal changes in midlife, it is important to have a support community as you advocate for the care you deserve.

Women carry so much—expectations, responsibilities, and often, unspoken struggles. Whether you’re facing relationship challenges, career stress, self-worth concerns, or the emotional toll of reproductive health issues, I provide a space where you can release, reflect, and rebuild. My approach blends mindfulness, movement, and evidence-based therapy to help you set boundaries, process emotions, and step into your full power.

Women face a myriad of issues like shame, guilt, trauma, exhaustion, parenting, and relationship issues and need spaces where they can process. I enjoy journeying with women toward feeling safe empowered and helping them navigate spaces in the world, especially those that have been traditionally male.

I am a certified educator for Dr. Thomas Gordon's Effectiveness Training for Women. I have led educational seminars to teach and support women who are experiencing conflicts in their relationships or feel they are not getting their needs met in their lives. I provide women with support and education to help them to improve their relationships thus living authentic, happy and rewarding lives.

I specialize and focus specifically on treating Women. Life experiences such as pregnancy, safety in the world, body image, sexual concerns, self-esteem, assertiveness, workplace stress may be easier to open up and speak about with a female counselor.

I love working with those who identify as women on various issues including: deciding to have children or being child-free, assertiveness skills in the workplace or in relationships, processing systemic racism, family of origin concerns, and more.

Our mental health doesn't exist in a vacuum. As women, we face unique challenges at work and at home -- such as experiences of bias and discrimination, gendered role expectations in our families, or lack of professional support and mentorship -- that can profoundly impact our well-being. My practice supports women to address common concerns like work-life balance, boundary setting, or navigating male-dominated workplaces with confidence, self-compassion, & resilience.

I’m passionate about helping women shift how they relate to their stress, anxiety, worry or fear through the skills of self-compassion, self-expression, boundary setting, coping and acceptance. Ultimately, I enjoy helping women learn how to trust themselves, follow their hearts and live life more fully. I also work with women in relationships who struggle with relationship distress, sexual inhibition, sexual desire or who have been betrayed by their partners.

In the words of feminist icon Betty Friedan, “Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?” It is one of my greatest passions and honors to support other women in the process of unshackling themselves from the internalized patriarchy, sloughing off the illusions of “not good enough”, “too much”, and “good girls don’t . . . “ to liberate the authentic expression of the wise woman within.

I was raised as a feminist by a feminist; my first social justice action (at age 14) was a march and rally with my mother and many of her college classmates, organized to call attention to the need for better lighting in the student parking deck after two female students were assaulted there within a month. In my clinical work, I have helped many female clients to overcome codependency, increase self-esteem, work through past rape trauma, and escape abusive relationships.

Women often navigate complex challenges, including self-esteem struggles, life transitions, and the pressures of balancing relationships and personal growth. I provide a supportive space to heal from past trauma, break free from unhealthy relationship patterns, and cultivate self-compassion, resilience, and empowerment.

As a woman and first time mom I feel passionate about working with women across the lifespan, on issues related to identity, intimacy, sexuality, self-esteem, trauma (incl. childhood abuse, intergenerational inheritances and experiences of oppression), spirituality, community, transition to motherhood, parenting, etc. Through accompaniment, compassion, support, somatic skills, evidence-backed methods, holistic healing and referrals, we will help you access the experience YOU need to feel whole.

Our staff has extensive experience supporting women with transition. This includes but is not limited to pre-marital counseling, pregnancy support, miscarriage and child loss grief, infertility, menopause, divorce support, and college transition support.

“Behind every successful woman is herself.” – Anonymous Empowerment is the foundation of treatment for women in therapy with Dr. Chiariello. There will be a direct focus on building self-esteem and assertiveness. Dr. Chiariello also offers support and empowerment for women of all ages who are struggling to cope with hormonal changes during puberty, perimenopause and menopause.

As women, we experience so many life transitions. Whether its marriage, a divorce or relationship breakup, having children or becoming empty nesters, we seem to always be in flux. These transitions can often bring up feelings of anxiety, depression and/or grief. Women also have many expectations placed upon them and sometimes self-care becomes ignored and/or avoided which can ultimately lead to burnout.

It is my life's mission to help women recover from the depression and anxiety caused by striving for perfectionism.

It's completely understandable to feel exhausted after a lifetime of trying to achieve unrealistic expectations, but that doesn’t have to keep you from taking steps towards the fulfilling life you desire. Pour some energy into yourself again. Reclaim your clarity and confidence. I help high achieving women find relief from stress, burnout, anxiety, and deep emotional pain. It is my mission to provide scientifically informed psychotherapy sacrificing compassion and genuine concern.