Women's Therapist in Naples, FL
For women who are competent at everything except being on their own list. Therapy for the gap between how well your life looks from outside and how it actually feels to live in.
The short answer
Individual therapy sessions are $125, in person at the Naples office or by secure video anywhere in Florida. Kellie Hatch, MA, RMHCI has over a decade of experience working specifically with women — on relationship patterns, self-worth, anxiety, burnout and the transitions that rearrange a life.
The first step is a free 15-minute Discovery Call. Book online or call (239) 526-8526.
The women this practice was built around
Most clients here are, by any external measure, doing well. They run departments, practices, households and other people's crises. They are the person everyone calls. What brings them in is not collapse — it is the growing suspicion that they have built a life they are managing rather than living, and that nobody would guess.
Over more than a decade of working almost entirely with women, a consistent shape emerges: enormous capability paired with a private conviction that the capability is the only thing making them worth keeping around. That belief is efficient. It is also exhausting, and it quietly selects the relationships, the jobs and the standards that keep it in place.
Impostor syndrome in people who are demonstrably not impostors
Impostor feelings rarely respond to evidence. Women arrive with promotions, credentials and a track record, and none of it has touched the sense of being one mistake away from exposure. Reassurance does not work because the belief was not built out of information in the first place.
What does work is going after the origin — the point at which achievement became the price of acceptance rather than a byproduct of interest. That is depth work, and it is the reason psychodynamic therapy and Rapid Transformational Therapy feature heavily here. RTT in particular is built to locate and reframe a founding belief rather than manage its symptoms week after week.
Relationship patterns that keep producing the same man
A great many women come in after a third or fourth relationship that ended the same way, with the reasonable question of what they keep doing. The honest answer is usually not a flaw in judgement but a familiarity bias: emotional unavailability reads as a puzzle to solve rather than a warning, because solving it was once the job.
The work is to make the pattern legible before it repeats — which cues feel like chemistry and are actually recognition, and what happens in your body in the first three weeks of something that is actually safe. Why you keep attracting the wrong partner and breaking the cycle cover this ground, and high-achieving women and emotional toddlers names the version specific to accomplished women.
Where a current relationship is the thing you want to work on rather than leave, couples therapy is available at $150 per session and can run alongside individual work.
Self-worth, boundaries and the cost of being the reliable one
Boundaries are usually framed as a skill, as though the problem were phrasing. For most women the problem is the prediction: that a boundary will be received as betrayal, and that the relationship cannot survive it. Which is why the work is less about scripts and more about tolerating the discomfort of the first few times someone is disappointed in you and nothing catastrophic follows.
Self-worth built on usefulness has a structural weakness — it requires continuous output. Rebuilding it on something more stable is slower than learning a technique and considerably more durable. Signs you are in an unhealthy relationship is a useful checkpoint if you are unsure whether what you are tolerating is normal.
Burnout, life transitions and divorce recovery
Burnout in this population almost never looks like an inability to work. It looks like working perfectly well while feeling nothing much about any of it, plus a fuse that has quietly disappeared at home. Recovery involves the practical arithmetic of load, and also the harder question of what you were outrunning by staying that busy.
Transitions do their own work of dismantling: a marriage ending, children leaving, a career changing shape, a move to Naples that turned out to be lonelier than expected, a parent's decline. Each one removes a role that was holding an identity in place. That is disorienting and it is also, reliably, the most productive time to be in therapy. Where divorce is the transition in question, divorce-specific work goes into it directly, and how to thrive after divorce is a good starting read.
Formats and fees
Individual sessions are $125 in the Naples office or by secure video statewide. Walk & Talk Beach Therapy on the Naples shoreline is $140 and suits clients who think better moving and side by side. RTT packages start at $750 for one to three sessions where the goal is a single deep change rather than ongoing support. Fees, superbills and HSA/FSA payment are set out on the cost page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What issues do women most commonly bring to therapy?
In this practice the recurring themes are relationship patterns that keep repeating, self-worth tied to achievement or usefulness, anxiety and overthinking, difficulty holding boundaries with family and at work, burnout in people who are still functioning well, and identity questions during a major transition such as divorce, an empty nest or a career change. Many clients arrive naming one of these and discover within a few sessions that several of them share a single root belief.
Is therapy different for women?
The clinical tools are the same, but the context is not, and pretending otherwise wastes sessions. Socialisation around anger, likeability and caretaking shapes what a woman has learned to suppress and what she has learned to apologise for; so does a lifetime of having pain minimised in medical settings. Working almost exclusively with women for over a decade means less time spent establishing that background and more spent on what you actually came in for.
Do you specialize in working with mothers?
Mothers make up a significant part of the practice, though the work is not framed as parenting support. The presenting concerns are usually a mother’s own — identity after children, resentment that feels unspeakable, the guilt of wanting something for yourself, co-parenting with a difficult ex, or noticing your own childhood patterns replaying in your household. Parenting strategy comes up when it matters; the focus stays on you rather than on techniques for managing your children.
Put yourself on the list
A free 15-minute Discovery Call is a low-stakes way to say the thing out loud and find out whether this is the right fit.
Book Your Free Discovery CallClinical note: This page is general education, not a diagnosis, treatment plan, or a substitute for individual clinical care. Kellie Hatch is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern (RMHCI #31091) in Florida, practicing under the supervision of Dr. April Brown, LMHC, QS, NCC. Therapy outcomes vary from person to person and no result is guaranteed. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or dial 911.