Practice Updates: Spring 2025

It’s been just a few weeks since the first day of spring and, late last week, April’s Pink Moon filled the night sky. Spring has always felt like such a hopeful time of year, as daffodils and tulips emerge and birds remake their nests. Fresh hits of green take shape and many of us begin making plans for the warmer days and weeks ahead.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about thresholds—the thresholds of motherhood, midlife, illness or new careers—and how we may find ourselves at these thresholds feeling hopeful, but also disoriented, unmoored or filled with grief. Our culture doesn’t often allow women the space to experience the full breadth of our emotional experience and many of us find ourselves at a threshold without guidance or support, feeling stuck and alone.

As I’ve carried these questions of threshold, spiritual longing and ritual, I’ve become even more curious about how we learn to mother ourselves during times of transition, especially when we may have had a difficult relationship with our own mother, conflicted feelings about motherhood or an idealized definition of mother. I’m committed to exploring the ways that arriving at a threshold intersects with the particulars of your story as you discover a path of compassion, vulnerability and deep mothering of yourself. I am growing in my conviction that this is the spiritual path of every woman.

Over the past year, I have reoriented my practice around spiritually integrated psychotherapy, which is not about any specific religious or spiritual beliefs, but is a deep honoring of the ways each of us experiences and expresses our spirituality. It’s about mystery, meaning and transformation. Along the way, my specializations have refined to focus on women’s health and spirituality, and I invite you to learn more about these. I still approach therapy with the same commitment: deeply relational therapy, grounded in skillful integration of psychodynamic, cognitive and somatic therapies with parts work and the wisdom of spiritual care.

I’m looking forward to a rich unfolding of life in the days and weeks ahead.

Warmly,

Judith