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Therapy For Women in Philadelphia

Sunstone Psychiatry offers therapy for women in Philadelphia, integrating supportive psychotherapy with individualized psychiatric care.

Medication isn’t the only piece of the puzzle. At Sunstone Psychiatry, therapy is woven into the psychiatric care we provide, helping you process what’s going on beneath the symptoms, not just manage them.

We offer supportive psychotherapy integrated with psychiatric care for women throughout Pennsylvania, and we coordinate closely with outside therapists when additional or specialized psychotherapy is the right fit.

At Sunstone Psychiatry, we provide individualized psychiatric care for women in Pennsylvania. Our goal is to help you navigate life transitions and hormonal changes with clarity.

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Therapy Within Psychiatric Care

Many of our patients benefit from an integrated approach that incorporates supportive psychotherapy into every psychiatric visit, alongside medication management. Therapy is woven naturally into our appointments, providing space to explore symptoms, emotions, stressors, relationships, and the factors influencing your mental health while also assessing treatment response and making thoughtful adjustments to your care. 

When extra time would be beneficial, we also offer extended, 50-minute appointments that allow for more in-depth therapeutic work while maintaining the continuity of your psychiatric care. This approach allows your psychiatrist to consider the full clinical picture and address both medication and therapeutic needs within the same relationship, rather than requiring you to divide routine psychiatric and therapeutic care among multiple practitioners.

Therapy and medication management aren’t competing approaches — for many women, they’re most effective together. Medication can help stabilize symptoms like anxiety, low mood, or emotional reactivity enough to make the work of therapy more accessible, while therapy helps address the patterns, relationships, and life circumstances that medication alone doesn’t touch.

What We Help With

  • Anxiety and racing, ruminative thoughts
  • Depression and low motivation
  • Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and hormonal mood changes
  • Perinatal and postpartum adjustment
  • Perimenopause-related mood changes
  • Identity shifts, life transitions, and burnout
  • Relationship and parenting stress

Coordinated Care With Outside Therapists

Sunstone collaborates with The Postpartum Stress Center, a nationally recognized practice specializing in perinatal psychotherapy. With your consent, we are happy to coordinate with your current therapist to support collaborative, multidimensional care.

What to Expect During Your Evaluation

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Complete an Inquiry Form

Share your background and current concerns so we can determine whether our practice is a good fit.

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Psychiatric Evaluation

We'll discuss your history, symptoms, and goals, including whether therapy, medication, or both make sense for you.

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Ongoing, Combined Care

Depending on your plan, this may include extended visits that combine medication management with supportive psychotherapy, coordination with an outside therapist, or both.

FAQs About Therapy For Women in Philadelphia

Our therapy support is delivered as part of integrated psychiatric visits rather than as separate, medication-free therapy sessions. If standalone weekly therapy is what you’re looking for, we’re happy to help coordinate a referral to a therapist, including our partners at The Postpartum Stress Center.

Yes. Supportive psychotherapy is incorporated into every appointment, including our 25-minute follow-up visits. These conversations provide space to process current concerns, strengthen coping strategies, and explore how symptoms, relationships, and life circumstances may be affecting your well-being.

For patients who would benefit from more in-depth psychotherapy, we offer 50-minute appointments scheduled weekly or every one to three weeks. These visits combine supportive psychotherapy with psychodynamic psychotherapy rooted in object relations theory—an approach that explores how early relationships and experiences may shape current emotional patterns, relationships, and ways of understanding yourself.

Yes. With your consent, we’re glad to coordinate care with a therapist you’re already seeing to ensure your treatment is aligned.

Yes — you must be physically located in Pennsylvania at the time of each appointment.

Sunstone is a self-pay, out-of-network practice. A superbill is available upon request for potential out-of-network reimbursement.

Our integrated therapy support addresses anxiety, depression, PMDD, perinatal and postpartum adjustment, perimenopause-related mood changes, and broader life transitions.

Yes. You can get started by completing our online inquiry form.

Start Feeling More Like Yourself Again

Whether you need medication, therapy, or both, care at Sunstone is built to address the full context of your life — not just a diagnosis.

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Let’s get you started. We’re here to help.

Whether you’re navigating anxiety, hormonal shifts, or the challenges of the peripartum and perimenopausal years — or simply feeling overwhelmed — Sunstone Psychiatry for Women is here for you.

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If you’re unsure whether our practice may be a good fit, we’re happy to answer questions before you complete an inquiry form.

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Important information before submitting an inquiry

Please read the following carefully before completing this form.

This is not a crisis resource. Sunstone Psychiatry for Women is an outpatient tele-psychiatry practice and does not provide emergency or crisis services. If you are experiencing a psychiatric emergency, having thoughts of harming yourself or others, or require immediate assistance, please call 911, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or go to your nearest emergency department.

No physician-patient relationship is established upon form completion. Completing or submitting this inquiry form does not establish a physician-patient relationship with Sunstone Psychiatry for Women or its psychiatrists. Submission of this form does not guarantee acceptance into the practice, scheduling of an appointment, or receipt of psychiatric services. All inquiries are reviewed individually to determine whether the practice may be an appropriate fit. A physician-patient relationship is established only after completion of an initial evaluation and mutual agreement between the patient and psychiatrist to proceed with care.

This form is not intended for clinical communication. Please do not use this form to communicate urgent medical concerns, psychiatric emergencies, medication requests, clinical questions, or any time-sensitive information. Messages submitted through this form may not be reviewed promptly.

Geographic requirement. To receive services through our practice, you must be physically located within Pennsylvania at the time of each appointment. If you are not currently located in Pennsylvania, we are unfortunately unable to provide care at this time.

Response time. We review inquiries during regular business hours and aim to respond within two business days. Submission of this form does not guarantee a response if our practice is not accepting new patients or does not appear to be an appropriate fit at this time.

Financial responsibility. Sunstone Psychiatry for Women is a self-pay, out-of-network practice. Payment is due at the time of service. By submitting this form, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our self-pay model.

Regarding intake inquiry:If, after reviewing your inquiry, we feel a brief introductory call would be helpful to determine fit, we may contact you to schedule one. The introductory call is intended solely to determine whether the practice may be a good fit. It is not a clinical evaluation, and no diagnosis, treatment recommendations, or prescriptions will be provided.