Perinatal Mental Health

The transition into parenthood can bring profound emotional, physical, relational, and identity changes. While this season is often expected to feel joyful or fulfilling, many people experience grief, fear, overwhelm, isolation, anxiety, trauma responses, or a loss of connection to themselves. These experiences can feel especially confusing when they do not match what someone thought pregnancy, birth, or parenthood “should” feel like.

I support adults navigating a wide range of perinatal and reproductive experiences, including infertility, pregnancy after loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, traumatic birth experiences, postpartum anxiety and depression, NICU experiences, parenting stress, identity shifts, and the emotional adjustment to pregnancy and parenthood. These experiences can impact self-esteem, relationships, attachment, sleep, sense of safety, body image, and overall emotional wellbeing. For some, unresolved trauma or past experiences may also become more present during the perinatal period.

Using EMDR, IFS-informed therapy, and other evidence-based approaches, I help clients process painful experiences, reduce feelings of shame or overwhelm, strengthen coping skills, and reconnect with themselves in a more compassionate and grounded way. Therapy can also provide space to explore complicated emotions that may feel difficult to share openly, including grief, anger, fear, ambivalence, resentment, or guilt.

Whether you are coping with reproductive loss, adjusting to a new stage of parenthood, healing from birth trauma, or trying to make sense of emotional changes during pregnancy or postpartum, therapy can offer support, understanding, and space to move through these experiences without having to minimize what you are carrying.