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Therapy New York City: Psychotherapist Colette Dowling's Website on Women's Mental Health

Colette Dowling, LCSW, provides therapy in New York City. The theme topic of her website is Women's Wellbeing and Mental Health.

Colette writes: "Our mental health issues are unique, due in part to hormone-related swings in mood, and in part due to childhood experiences as well as to social forces that affect women's lives. Here you'll find the latest information on social and biological influences on women's mood shifts, cravings, and body image. You'll also find articles on psychological distortions that affect women's ability to work productively and feel secure in relationships.

I've been researching and writing on women's mental health and wellbeing since the early eighties. In 1981 I examined women's emotional conflicts with independence in The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence. The book became a bestseller and was translated into 23 languages. In the 90s, I wrote You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety and Addiction. This book was the first to explain the medical and physical aspects of mood disorders as well as the emotional and psychological. Later in the 90s my book Red Hot Mamas: Coming Into Our Own at Fifty was published. It deals not only with the physical and emotional effects of menopause but with the exciting possibilities that lie ahead for women who've arrived at this stage of life.

After 9/11 I began studies to become a psychotherapist. Now my research and writing on women's mental health is informed by what I learn through work with patients. Along with information on the social forces that impact women's mental health, you'll find here a number of articles on the estrogen-serotonin connection underlying women's mood swings. The hormone roller coaster can seriously affect women's quality of life. Fortunately, a great deal can be done to smooth the ride."

Biographical Information

Colette Dowling, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker with a graduate degree from The Smith College School for Social Work. She has also completed training in psychoanalysis. Colette is the author of many books on women's wellbeing and mental health, including The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, which was translated into 23 languages.

Ms. Dowling has a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan. Her office in Chelsea is convenient to Brooklyn, Queens, Hoboken and Jersey City. You can reach her at dowlingcolette@earthlink.net, or by calling 718-594-0201.

To hear Colette speaking about what it's like starting therapy with someone new, please click the audio button.

Profiles of Colette's therapy practice are available at:

http://therapist.psychologytoday.com/34706.

http://www.colettedowlingtherapy.com/

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