As a woman with a lifetime of lived experience, you may carry questions that could not have been asked earlier because you had not yet lived the life that made them possible. Psychotherapy with me offers a place to explore those questions and discover where they may lead.
You may have spent years building a career, caring for others, fulfilling meaningful roles, meeting responsibilities, and doing what needed to be done. Yet somewhere along the way, something essential may have been set aside: your creativity, your dreams, your confidence, your sense of adventure, or simply the freedom to become more fully yourself.
In my own long life, I have lived through innocence and daring adventure, years of setting aside my deepest dreams while fulfilling meaningful responsibilities, and eventually discovering the courage to embrace the life that had been waiting for me all along.
In my own long life, I have lived through innocence and daring adventure, years of setting aside my deepest dreams while fulfilling meaningful responsibilities, and eventually discovering the courage to embrace the life that had been waiting for me all along.
To my surprise, I didn't have to start from scratch.
Without realizing it, I had been building the foundation for this life all along.
Today, as I live the second half of my life, I continue to welcome new challenges, new learning, new creative work, and new dreams with joy and strength. Life has not become smaller with age. It has become larger.
The women who seek me out are often longing to discover what is still possible for them.
Many have spent years succeeding, caring for others, solving problems, and meeting expectations. Now they want to discover the woman who has been waiting beneath those accomplishments and responsibilities.
My private psychotherapy practice was built with intention and guided by respect, compassion, integrity, and depth. Above all, it rests on my confidence that every woman carries within her a resilient capacity to grow and discover new possibilities, even after years of loss, disappointment, or putting herself last, and to create a life that feels deeply her own.
For more than four decades, I have helped women reclaim confidence, deepen relationships, reconnect with creativity, discover purpose, and imagine new possibilities for the years ahead. Together we work through grief, trauma, eating disorders, relationship struggles, loneliness, self-doubt, and many life transitions.
Psychotherapy with me is thoughtful, unhurried, and deeply collaborative. We begin by understanding your experience, your concerns, your hopes, and your goals, rather than trying to fit your life into a predetermined method or timetable.
Together we explore what has shaped your life, what has been holding you back, what no longer serves you, and what is ready to emerge in this next chapter of your life.
Psychotherapy with me is about discovering that it is not too late to become more fully yourself.
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If this approach speaks to where you are in your life, I invite you to request a complimentary 20-minute telephone consultation. We can talk about what brings you to psychotherapy, answer your questions, and consider whether working together feels right for both of us.
Psychotherapy with me is about discovering that it is not too late to become more fully yourself.
If this speaks to something you have been longing to understand or explore, I invite you to request a complimentary 20-minute telephone consultation. We can talk about what brings you to psychotherapy, answer your questions, and consider whether working together feels right for both of us.
If this speaks to something you have been longing to understand or explore, I invite you to request a complimentary 20-minute telephone consultation. We can talk about what brings you to psychotherapy, answer your questions, and consider whether working together feels right for both of us.
There comes a point when coping is no longer enough. The ways you learned to live no longer fit what you feel, want, or are beginning to imagine.
Patterns that once helped you adapt can become constricting. They become obstacles to new goals, deeper expression, and a life that feels more expansive and more fully your own.
Collaborative • Trauma-informed • Depth-oriented
We look beneath symptoms to the patterns and assumptions that hold them in place so change can take root from within, shaped by your emerging inner authority.
Joanna Poppink, MFT, is a depth-oriented psychotherapist with more than four decades of experience helping women in midlife and beyond create lives that feel fully their own.