The later decades of our life offer a rich and often underestimated opportunity for psychological growth and self-discovery. As an older therapist, I bring both professional expertise and personal understanding to my work with others navigating this meaningful stage of life.

This season holds unique opportunities for exploration including the space to step back from the demands that may have shaped earlier years and ask the deeper questions of who we are and what truly matters. Many find that this time invites a natural process of discernment, reflecting on a lifetime of experiences to identify what holds the greatest value and meaning. It’s an opportunity to become more intentional about how we spend our time and energy, and cultivate the mindfulness that allows us to be fully present for and engaged in the life that we’re living now.

These later years also provide space to address unfinished business. Whether that means healing old wounds, making peace with past choices, or finally pursuing interests set aside long ago, therapy can support this important work. There can be profound freedom in resolving what has been left undone, and often, genuine psychological growth continues and even accelerates during these years.

This stage of life also often involves loss, including of loved ones, physical capacities, roles that once defined us, and a future we had imagined. Grieving these loses can become a pathway to deeper authenticity and appreciation for what remains. In therapy, I offer a compassionate space to honor these loses while also recognizing the resilience and wisdom that emerge through them.

I deeply respect the complexity of long-lived lives, the strength and courage it takes to face aging honestly, and the potential that exists for meaningful change and growth.

“Aging is not a thief. It is a sculptor. It carves us down until only essence is left.”

Mark Nepo