Keely Rodriguez, M.Ed., NCC Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor
BRIA Certified Menopause Mental Health Provider
Perimenopause & Menopause Anxiety Therapy for Women in Austin, Texas
EMDR + Brainspotting In person in Austin's Northwest Hills
You were fine. Then you weren't.
You've been the one who holds it together, at work, at home, in your family, in your marriage. The person everyone leans on.
But something shifted in the last year or two. Your sleep is off. You wake at 3am and your brain immediately starts cataloguing everything that could go wrong. Your patience is shorter. You've snapped at people you love and felt genuinely confused by your own reaction. Your focus isn't what it was, you've reread the same email four times to make sure it was fine.
You've tried pushing through. Staying organized. Managing harder. The old tools are not working the way they used to.
It might sound like this inside your head:
Is something actually wrong with me?
Why can't I calm down the way I used to?
Will this ever stop?
For a lot of women, the answer to that last one is: not on its own. Perimenopause and Menopause anxiety doesn't always fade when your period stops or you get on HRT. Sometimes it softens. Sometimes it hangs around for a long time.
The reason this is happening? It may be Perimenopause or Menopause.
When estrogen starts dropping, your brain chemistry changes, and anxiety that used to be manageable suddenly isn't. For some women it resolves as hormones settle. For others, the anxiety outlives the hot flashes, because the nervous system has learned a pattern it doesn't know how to unlearn on its own.
It's not you. It's biology.
That's where the right kind of therapy makes a difference.
Nobody's talking about this part.
There's a lot of conversation about perimenopause and menopause right now, hot flashes, HRT, supplements, sleep. Almost none of it is about mental health. Which is strange, because the anxiety, the brain fog, the 3am dread, the self-criticism, those are the parts that quietly run women's lives.
““Most of my clients are capable women in midlife whose anxiety stopped responding to the tools they used to rely on. We use EMDR, Brainspotting, and direct, practical conversation to get beneath the overthinking, the self-criticism, and the 3am loop, and build something sturdier in its place.”
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What I work on with women like you:
In person in Austin's Northwest Hills, or virtually across Texas:
Perimenopause and menopause anxiety
Trauma Processing with EMDR and Brainspotting
Betrayal trauma
Grief and midlife loss
High-functioning overwhelm