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Women’s mental health can be influenced by many different factors, including relationships, caring responsibilities, hormonal changes, work pressures, major life transitions, and the expectations placed upon women. In this section you’ll find a collection of articles exploring women’s mental health, emotional wellbeing, common challenges affecting women, hormonal influences, and practical advice for improving wellbeing. If you’re a woman looking for professional support, use the links below to learn more about our counselling for women services or book a free consultation.
Menopause changes more than the body. For many women, it also shifts something in how they relate to the people closest to them, not through any choice or failure of feeling, but through the same hormonal mechanisms that are changing … Read more
The word rage is the right word. Not frustration, not irritability, not being short-tempered, the full-body, out-of-proportion anger that seems to arrive from nowhere and disappear just as quickly, leaving confusion and sometimes shame in its wake. If you have … Read more
Some people leave hospital carrying more than a new baby. They carry flashbacks to a moment they couldn’t control, a memory of feeling unheard, or a fear that won’t settle even months later. This is birth trauma. Research suggests it’s … Read more
If your anxiety has changed, or arrived for the first time, and you are somewhere in your forties or early fifties, perimenopause may be the reason. Not the only possible reason, but a far more common one than most women … Read more
If you have lived with PMDD for years and something has started to feel different — symptoms shifting in timing or intensity, new experiences arriving alongside familiar ones, a sense that the pattern you thought you understood has changed — … Read more
Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Perinatal OCD) is a form of OCD that occurs during pregnancy or in the first year after birth. It is characterised by intrusive, unwanted thoughts, images, or urges related to the baby, alongside compulsions or mental … Read more
Across the UK and Europe, mothers are reporting something that feels both deeply personal and unmistakably collective: a level of mental burden that has become unsustainable. A large Europe-wide study conducted by Make Mothers Matter and presented at London School … Read more
Finding Calm, Clarity and Connection Through Change October marks Menopause Awareness Month — a time to shine a light on an experience that affects millions across the UK, yet still carries too much silence and misunderstanding. At Hope Therapy & … Read more
Strategies for Busy Women It’s a strange kind of exhaustion — the one where you’ve done everything you can think of, yet the list keeps growing. You find yourself speeding through each day, constantly shifting between roles — worker, parent, … Read more
Not Being Heard During Pregnancy: Pregnancy is often painted in soft, glowing colours—the joyful bump updates, the first flutters, the nursery planning. But for many women, behind the smiles lies something a lot less Instagram-worthy: feeling unheard, misunderstood, or emotionally … Read more