Amanda Westphal Counselling

"That was the best luteal ever."

When I first start working with a client, the luteals are real bad. Real dark.

My first job is to minimise the destruction and settle those luteals down.

That sentence is the goal. I want to hear it within the first two sessions.

Free Monthly PMDD Support Guide, link in bio.

Fighting the urge to call every ex just to say: I wasn't crazy. It was PMDD.

So many women in my comments say the same thing. Told they were bipolar, dramatic, too much. It was PMDD the whole time.

Free Monthly PMDD Support Guide, link in bio.

It's 2026.

You're probably PMDD self-diagnosed, thanks to a Google search or an AI chat. You've self-advocated for years. You've had doctors tell you that you were wrong the whole time.

One woman in my comments put it simply: "I had the whole shopping list of SSRIs and got tested for bipolar disorder, to find out it was PMDD."
Isn't it time you actually found the support that's been waiting for you?

Stop looking. It's here. Free Monthly PMDD Support Guide, link in bio.

These are the same reassuring statements that most women with PMDD need on their bad days. It's not just you.

"I am learning to accept my conditions and understand myself in a world not built for my uniqueness."

"The house doesn't need to be perfect.

Expectations can change this season."

"I'm not a bad mum. I'm a person who's struggling."

Grab the free Monthly PMDD Support Guide in my bio for more of this, plus a cycle-phase map and symptom tracker.

I'm human. This idea that we need to get our s**t together isn't real.

Almost a decade into this work, and no one has their s**t together. Not the woman who looks calm online. Not me.

One member in the Reset Method put it this way: "I'm not a bad wife and mum, I am a person who is struggling."

Same.

The free Monthly PMDD Support Guide is in my bio, if you want something to hold onto on days like that.Almost a decade into this work, and no one has their s**t together. Not the woman who looks calm online.

Not me.

One member in the Reset Method put it this way: "I'm not a bad wife and mum, I am a person who is struggling."

Same.

I wasn’t bipolar.
I wasn’t depressed.
I had PMDD.

And it took years of wrong diagnoses to find out.
If it only happens in the second half of your cycle — it’s worth looking at.
Join the waitlist → link in bio.

Weird echo. Anywho…

Some of us shouldn’t be allowed to operate heavy machinery during luteal. 🚗💀

The brain fog is REAL.

Please tell me I’m not the only former public liability.

I won. 🏆
Innovative Counsellor of the Year from my incredible industry body for my program The PMDD Reset Method.
There were no speeches, just champagne 🥂 but here’s what I want to shout from the rooftops:
Cycle syncing isn’t a wellness trend. It’s essential infrastructure for women’s health care. And it’s been missing from counselling for too long.
Women’s problem-solving is cyclical. We notice the problem in luteal. We sit with it in menstruation. We plan in ovulation. We act in follicular. Our counselling should work with that, not against it.
Especially for women with PMDD.
PMDD has a higher su***de rate than depression. These women aren’t dramatic. They’re not difficult. They need practitioners who understand the cycle well enough to know when to hold the boundary for them, when to say “not now” to the big decisions, and when to actually have the hard conversation.
That’s the work. That’s what got recognised today.
Thank you. I’m feeling so proud 🥹