Therapy for Perinatal Mental Health

Motherhood is transforming and beautiful, but also disarming and earth-shifting. It challenges your capacity for patience in ways you could never anticipate. If you did not receive the unconditional love from your own parent(s) that you wish to provide to your own child, you may feel fearful about your ability to show up as the kind of mother you want to be. Experiences like postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, pregnancy loss, and fertility challenges are incredibly common, yet many moms who go through these experiences feel incredibly isolated. The layered experiences of new or expectant motherhood are best met with a layered therapeutic approach. You will find space for all parts of you to be held in our sessions: body, mind, heart, and spirit.

 

Therapy can offer a space for exploration, unlearning and re-learning ways of showing up for yourself and your child. It can offer your nervous system a much needed space to generously tend to yourself, as a form of re-parenting the parts of you that might still hold wounds from your own upbringing. Together, we can find ways to meet your needs, not just so you can be the parent you want to be, but because you matter too. 

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Seeking support during the perinatal period, as you navigate these first tricky stages of being a cycle-breaking mom, is a wise and brave move. With support, you can move through this stage of life feeling more resourced and

 

Ways I can help​​​​

• Offering warmth understanding as you explore the story of your upbringing and your journey to motherhood.

• Tools for finding your way through the stages of the motherhood journey that can feel murky and dark.

• Recovery from traumatic or upsetting medical experiences.

• Assistance in understanding your nervous system's responses to trauma and gentle somatic support in releasing what no longer serves you.

• Joining with you in offering compassion to the parts of you that are struggling with stories of shame, or of feeling not-good-enough.

• Practical support with parenting challenges.

• Guidance with effectively navigating relationships with family members and relatives in a way that fits best with your values, culture, and personal needs.

• Support in creating new internal stories that allow your strength and resiliency to come to the forefront.

• ​Help with meeting your motherhood journey with a spirit of being on your own side by shifting out of self-blame and into self-compassion.

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