Women experience profound life transitions that are rarely named, supported, or honored—especially in modern Western culture. Instead of being recognized as natural initiations, these moments are often rushed, minimized, or treated as problems to solve.
Rites of Passage Therapy is a depth-oriented, neurodivergent-affirming therapeutic offering designed to support women through major life transitions with care, meaning, and embodiment. This work recognizes that times of change are not signs of failure—they are thresholds of becoming.
This offering is especially supportive for women who feel deeply, think differently, experience change intensely, or sense that old identities no longer fit.
What Is Rites of Passage Therapy?
Rites of Passage Therapy is a holistic psychotherapy approach that helps women consciously move through life transitions involving identity, relationships, the body, and purpose.
Rather than asking you to “push through” change, this work:
Slows the process down
Honors grief and ambivalence
Supports nervous system regulation
Creates space for meaning-making and integration
This approach is particularly well-suited for neurodivergent women, highly sensitive women, and those who experience transitions somatically or emotionally.
Why Life Transitions Can Be Especially Hard for Neurodivergent Women
Neurodivergent women— including those with ADHD, autism, sensory sensitivity, giftedness, or highly empathic traits—often experience transitions more intensely than cultural norms allow space for.
Life changes may be more destabilizing because:
The nervous system is more sensitive to disruption
Identity shifts take longer to integrate
Hormonal or sensory changes feel overwhelming
Masking and over-functioning increase under stress
Grief may be complex, delayed, or difficult to name
Rites of Passage Therapy is designed to meet you where you are, honoring your pacing, processing style, and internal rhythms.
The Four Major Rites of Passage in a Woman’s Life
This therapeutic offering is organized around four major life transitions many women experience. You may be entering one, revisiting another, or integrating multiple passages at once.
1. Maiden to Partner: Identity, Attachment, and Conscious Relationship
The transition from being single to entering committed partnership—through marriage or long-term relationship—often brings invisible losses alongside excitement.
This phase may include:
Fear of losing independence or routines
Attachment anxiety or people-pleasing patterns
Sensory or emotional overwhelm in relationships
Grief for former identities
Therapy during this rite supports:
Boundary clarity and differentiation
Secure attachment without self-abandonment
Conscious relationship choices
Honoring autonomy within intimacy
This passage is about choosing connection without losing yourself.
2. Partner to Mother: Pregnancy, Creativity, and Becoming a Nurturer
Motherhood includes parenting children, but also extends to birthing businesses, creative work, caregiving roles, pets, and community leadership.
For many women—especially neurodivergent women—this transition can feel destabilizing:
The body and nervous system change rapidly
Sleep and routines are disrupted
Identity fragments under competing demands
There is pressure to “do it right”
Therapeutic support during this stage focuses on:
Processing overwhelm without shame
Reclaiming selfhood alongside caregiving
Supporting nervous system regulation
Preventing burnout and self-erasure
This rite honors the labor of nurturing—including the need to nurture yourself.
3. Active Mothering to Empty Nest: Perimenopause, Grief, and Identity Reorganization
As children leave home—or as fertility, youth, or physical capacity shift—many women enter a deeply misunderstood life transition. This phase often overlaps with perimenopause, bringing hormonal, emotional, and sensory changes.
This stage may involve:
Heightened emotional or sensory sensitivity
Grief for lost roles, time, or youth
Identity confusion after years of caretaking
A resurfacing of long-ignored needs
Therapy during this rite supports:
Grief processing and emotional validation
Nervous system support during hormonal change
Reframing this phase as reorientation, not decline
Creating new meaning beyond productivity
This passage invites listening to the body’s wisdom rather than overriding it.
4. Empty Nest to Wise Woman: Elderhood, Creativity, and Lived Wisdom
The final rite of passage is not an ending—it is an emergence. As mothering roles soften, a deeper sense of self comes forward.
Often called the wise woman or elder, this stage includes:
Releasing identities that no longer fit
Integrating lived experience into wisdom
Creating art, mentorship, or leadership
Living with less masking and more authenticity
For many neurodivergent women, this phase feels like a homecoming—where sensitivity becomes discernment and intuition becomes guide.
Therapy here focuses on integration, meaning, and legacy rather than fixing.
What Rites of Passage Therapy Includes
This work integrates:
Depth-oriented psychotherapy
Nervous system and body-based awareness
Neurodivergent-affirming support
Grief and identity work
Reflective and meaning-centered practices
Sessions are collaborative and paced to honor your processing style, sensory needs, and internal timing.
Who This Offering Is For
Rites of Passage Therapy may be a good fit if you:
Feel “in between” identities or life stages
Experience transitions emotionally or physically
Identify as neurodivergent or highly sensitive
Are navigating perimenopause or major change
Want therapy that honors both psychology and soul
You do not need to be in crisis to begin this work. Many women arrive simply because something old no longer fits—and something new is waiting to emerge.
Rites of Passage Are Not Detours—They Are the Path
You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are in transition.
Rites of Passage Therapy offers a supportive container to slow down, be witnessed, and consciously step into who you are becoming—without pressure to rush, perform, or explain yourself.
Individual therapy sessions are available. Group offerings and seasonal intensives may be offered in the future. Spots are limited. Please contact me or apply here to start your journey!