Therapy for Pregnancy and Postpartum

Pregnancy can be wonderful AND overwhelming.

Helping you put that “not good enough” feeling in its place and connect with all parts of yourself.

You are expecting and may be here because…

  • You want to work on your emotional wellness before your baby is here

  • You are thinking about changing your medications because of pregnancy or breastfeeding

  • You are expecting and feeling anxious and/or depressed

  • You are facing an unexpected or high-risk pregnancy and not sure what to do

  • You fear you won’t be able to balance taking care of this baby with work and the rest of your busy life

  • You are of a minority identity and scared about the birth statistics for your group

You are postpartum and may be here because…

  • You just don’t feel like yourself

  • You think you are experiencing postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, or postpartum something

  • You had a birth experience that didn’t go how you wanted or a traumatic childbirth

  • Breastfeeding is challenging

  • It’s hard to feel connected to your baby

  • You want to work on your emotional wellness

However you arrived, I am so glad you are here.

Keep reading to see if my pregnancy and postpartum therapy services may help you.

You may find it difficult to be the parent you “should” be.

You may feel disconnected from the non-parenting parts of yourself to keep up with the needs of your pregnancy and your baby. So you put yourself on the back-burner but STILL feel like you can’t win, your mind won’t turn off.

Your mind may tell you it’s selfish to take self-care time.

Or that you should be happy and the fact that you’re not makes you “not good enough,” deserving of guilt and shame, and unhappier.

Or maybe your mind tells you thoughts that scare you and this convinces you that you aren’t a good parent.

Or your mind may tell you that your maternal instincts and that immediate connection to your baby haven’t kicked in, making you feel guilty and like you’re already failing as a parent.

 

If any of this resonates with you…

You DESERVE to experience all parts of yourself, including the non-parenting parts, as a whole.

You DESERVE to connect with being a good enough parent.

I help you face and replace that “not good enough” feeling.

We uncover this “not good enough” feeling, any perfectionistic thoughts, any scary thoughts, and anything else uncomfortable. We figure out what’s behind it and I offer you science-based tools to stop it in its tracks.

We work through being a good enough parent and taking time for yourself.

My goal is to set you up to thrive in your parent role while integrating and thriving in all the other parts of yourself.

 

In therapy with me, you can often hear me saying something like this…

You know the safety video on airplanes where they instruct how a parent is to use the oxygen masks for themselves and their child?

Who do they say is to wear the mask first? Parent or child?

…. They instruct the parent to put it on themself first!

Why would this be if our children are more vulnerable than us adults?

Because YOU surviving and thriving makes your child much more likely to survive and thrive too.

Areas where I can help

  • Decision making about and coping with unplanned pregnancy

  • Decision making about and coping with high-risk pregnancy

  • Emotional wellness and mood problems during pregnancy

  • Processing the birth statistics that apply to your identities

  • Dealing with the discomfort of a changing body while pregnant and postpartum

  • Sex disappointment

  • Traumatic birth

  • Baby blues

  • Having a hard time feel connected to your baby

  • Postpartum depression

  • Postpartum anxiety

  • Postpartum OCD

  • Postpartum PTSD

  • Dysphoric milk ejection reflex and sadness when breastfeeding

  • and more! Please reach out if you don’t see what you’re looking for.