Because midlife transitions deserve specialized support
Trauma-informed therapy for women navigating everything at once
When multiple life changes hit simultaneously—menopause, empty nest, aging parents, career uncertainty, relationship strain—you need more than general therapy. You need someone who understands how these transitions intersect and amplify each other.
That's exactly what Soul Chat Therapy provides.
Meet Deb
My Story: From Perfect Storm to Specialized Practice
I understand the overwhelming complexity of midlife transitions both personally and professionally.
In 2019, I experienced my own perfect storm: an international move, the global pandemic, my husband's life-threatening accident, aging parents needing care, and the onset of menopause with debilitating symptoms—all hitting at once. I was managing crisis after crisis while my own body and mind were changing in ways I didn't understand.
That experience taught me something crucial: the standard approaches to midlife challenges completely miss the complex psychological integration required when everything shifts simultaneously. You can't address each transition separately when they're all affecting each other.
Before that crisis, I spent three decades in global business strategy and executive leadership, working across continents and cultures. That background taught me how to navigate high pressure complexity and manage simultaneous demands—but it didn't prepare me for the emotional and psychological impact of multiple personal transitions colliding in the complexity of every facet of my personal life in my 50s.
The traditional therapy I tried didn't work. It treated each issue in isolation. What I needed—and what I eventually found through specialized training—was an approach designed for exactly this kind of interconnected change.
Today, that's what I offer other women facing their own perfect storms.
My Approach
Depth Work for Complex Transitions
I specialize in trauma-informed, integrative therapies specifically designed for the complexity of simultaneous life transitions. This isn't surface-level coping or just talk therapy —it's deep therapeutic work that addresses the underlying patterns and creates lasting change.
This isn't just academic training—it's expertise earned through rigorous study, supervised practice, and my own lived experience of navigating complex transitions.
Trauma-Informed Integration
Midlife transitions often reactivate old wounds while creating new ones. I work with your nervous system's need for safety while processing what's emerging, ensuring you feel grounded throughout the work.
Depth-Oriented Understanding
Using clinical hypnosis, IFS-informed parts work, regression techniques, and somatic therapies we access what's really happening beneath your conscious awareness—the patterns and beliefs driving your responses to change.
Accelerated Results
Through targeted therapeutic modalities, we create lasting integration efficiently. You don't have years to spend in traditional talk therapy when your life demands attention NOW.
Four-Domain Framework
We explore how your challenges connect across Identity & Self, Relationships & Connection, Emotional & Mental Health, and Life Structure & Purpose—because that's how midlife actually happens.
Clinical Expertise & Training
Education
Master of Science in Clinical Psychology (MSc) University of Wolverhampton, UK Master of Business Administration (MBA) George Washington University, USA Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) University of Texas at Austin, USA
Core Clinical Specializations
Parts Therapist & Advanced Parts Therapy | Certified by Dr. Roy Hunter, Tebbetts Parts Therapy Foundation Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed-Therapist | Certified by IFS Institute / Dr. Dick Schwartz Clinical Hypnotherapist | Certified by International & National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) Advanced Master Hypnotherapist & Solutions-Based Therapy | Certified by International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT) Trauma & Regression Therapist | Certified by Past Life Regression Academy, UK; American Hypnosis Association (AHA), USA
Advanced Training (Selected)
Somatic Trauma Healing: Advanced Methods in Body-Based Therapies Using Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for Trauma Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Intensive Workshop Trauma, Health and Well-being (Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Richard Schwartz, Dr. Frank Andersen), Oxford University Masters Series The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture (Dr. Gabor Maté) The Body Keeps the Score—Trauma Healing Through the Senses (Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD), Trauma Conference Reiki Master Teacher Certified | International Association of Reiki Professionals Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) Certified Practitioner
Who This Work Is For
You're likely here because:
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Multiple major life transitions are happening simultaneously
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Perimenopause or menopause is amplifying other challenges
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Standard therapy hasn't addressed the complexity you're experiencing
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You need accelerated results, not years of processing
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You want depth work that creates lasting change
If you're managing the intersection of hormonal changes, relationship shifts, identity questions, and life structure reorganization—this is the specialized support designed for exactly that complexit
Working Together
What to expect:
My approach combines personal understanding with specialized clinical expertise.
This is focused, depth-oriented work. We don't just manage symptoms—we address the underlying patterns and create sustainable integration across all areas of your life.
Sessions are available online for women anywhere in the US, UK, and EU. Whether you're in New York, London, Barcelona, or anywhere with an internet connection, we can work together.
