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WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH

For every season of a woman's life.

The shifts in your body, your sleep, your moods, and the losses and longings that come with them — therapy that listens to what this season is asking of you.

And helps you meet it with more steadiness and care.

YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE YOURSELF HERE

Women's health is deeply physical, emotional,

and relational.

Hormonal shifts, reproductive challenges, and changing societal roles can profoundly impact your mental health. You might recognize yourself in experiences like these:

  • Your body, sleep, and moods feel unpredictable, and you are struggling to navigate the emotional toll of perimenopause, PMDD, or other hormonal transitions.

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  • You are carrying the silent grief of a pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or TFMR, and feel isolated in a world that expects you to move on quickly.​

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  • Fertility struggles have left you feeling disconnected from your body, your partner, or friends who seem to conceive without effort.

  • You feel completely depleted by the pressure to "do it all," leaving you wondering who you are beneath your roles as a mother, partner, caregiver, or professional.

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  • Your self-worth feels fragile, tied constantly to your productivity, physical appearance, or what your body "should" be able to do.

 

  • A major life transition has left you feeling disoriented, struggling to redefine your identity, boundaries, and self-esteem during motherhood, career shifts, midlife, or aging.

EXPLORE THE AREAS WE SUPPORT

Our Areas of Women's Mental Health Psychotherapy  Services

Explore any of the areas below to learn more about our clinical approach and the pyschotherapy support we offer at Wellness Counselling Centre for Women's Mental Health.

Perimenopause & Menopause

Support for navigating the profound hormonal shifts, mood changes, sleep disturbances, and identity transitions of midlife.

PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)

Therapy to help manage severe, cyclical mood shifts, irritability, and anxiety during the luteal phase.

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Infertility Support

A compassionate space to process the grief, anxiety, and relational strain that often accompany fertility challenges and treatment.

Pregnancy Loss

Dedicated grief support for individuals and couples navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, or termination for medical reasons (TFMR).

Postpartum Depression & Anxiety

Maternal mental health care to support you through the complex, often overwhelming transition into parenthood.

Identity

Support for redefining who you are outside of your roles—whether navigating career shifts, motherhood, aging, or shedding societal expectations.

Self- Esteem

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Practical help to dismantle perfectionism, quiet your inner critic, and build a steadier, kinder relationship with yourself.

WHAT SUPPORT CAN LOOK LIKE

Support for this season of your life.

Therapy offers a dedicated, validating space to address the physical, emotional, and relational aspects of your health. Rather than treating your symptoms in isolation, we look at the whole picture of your life. Together, we work to help you understand how hormonal shifts affect your nervous system, process the grief of reproductive challenges, and dismantle the societal pressures that lead to burnout—all at a pace that feels supportive to you.

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Throughout this process, your voice and lived experience remain at the center of our care. Your boundaries, priorities, and readiness always guide our work.

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Understand Your Mind-Body Connection

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Grieve Reproductive and Life Losses

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Navigate Major Identity Transitions

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Establish Sustainable Boundaries and

Self-Care 

Meet Your Support Team Who Work With
Women's Mental Health

Cindy Rose, Registered Psychotherapist and founder of Wellness Counselling Centre, St. Cat

Cindy Rose, M.A.

Registered Psychotherapist

cindy@wellnesscc.ca

  • Perimenopause

  • Menopause

  • PMDD

  • Identity

  • Self-Esteem

Melissa Penner - Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) helping adults and youth with gri

Melissa Penner MACP

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
melissa@wellnesscc.ca

  • Perimenopause

  • Menopause

  • Infertility

  • Pregnancy Loss 

  • Self-Esteem

Cassandra Umbriaco - Registered Psychotherapist providing ACT therapy in St. Catharines ch

Cassandra Umbriaco, MACP

Registered Psychotherapist
cassandra@wellnesscc.ca

  • Perimenopause

  • Menopause

  • Infertility

  • Identity

  • Self-Esteem

Stefanie Dejong - Registered Psychotherapist in St. Catharines specializing in IFS therapy

Stefanie DeJong, M.A

Registered Psychotherapist
stefanie@wellnesscc.ca

  • Infertility

  • Postpartum

  • Self-Esteem

Katie Tallon - Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) for relationships and trauma recove

Katie Tallon, MACP 

Registered Psychotherapist

(Qualifying)

katie@wellnesscc.ca

  • Infertility

  • Postpartum

  • Self-Esteem

Ashley Wills - Registered Psychotherapist for adults, youth and children in St. Catharines

Ashley Wills, MA
Registered Psychotherapist

ashley@wellnesscc.ca

  • Identity 

  • PMDD

  • Self-Esteem

Ciara Pember - Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying) offering affordable therapy while o

Ciara Pember,

MACP (Candidate)
Registered Psychotherapist

(Qualifying)

ciara@wellnesscc.ca

  • Identity 

  • Self-Esteem

  • Women's Health

Tyne Markle - Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) offering Gottman couples therapy and

Tyne Markle, MACP

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
tyne@wellnesscc.ca

  • Identity 

  • Self-Esteem

  • Women's Health​

Andrea Cottee - Registered Psychotherapist offering virtual EMDR and couples therapy and F

Andrea Cottee, MACP

Registered Psychotherapist 
andrea@wellnesscc.ca

  • Identity

  • Self-Esteem

  • Women's Health

Your move from hurt to hope
can begin today.

A real human on the other end, holding compassionate, non-judgmental space for whatever you bring. In person in St. Catharines or virtually across Ontario.

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