Pregnancy & Postpartum
You're growing a life, and transforming your own. Let's honor both.
Becoming a parent is a profound transition. Therapy gives you space to process it: the excitement and the overwhelm both.
Online, anywhere in California or New York
This might sound familiar
- Anxiety about baby's health, labor, or the changes ahead
- Grief for the version of yourself before parenthood
- Guilt about self-care, or pressure to do it "perfectly"
- Strained partner or family relationships
- Isolation and comparison to an idealized version of motherhood
Approaches we might use
CBTManages intrusive worries about your baby or your own ability to cope.mayoclinic.org →
ACTBuilds self-compassion for a season that rarely goes as planned.contextualscience.org →
EMDRProcesses a difficult birth or traumatic medical experience.emdria.org →
IFSMakes room for the conflicting parts of you that arrive alongside a baby.psychologytoday.com →
“Birth is not only about making babies. It's about making mothers: strong, capable mothers.”Barbara Katz Rothman
How we'll work together
- Uncovering patterns: where guilt, pressure, or inadequacy come from
- Regulating body and mind through this season's hormonal and nervous system shifts
- Re-defining success around the values that guide how you want to parent
- Restoring connection with your partner, your baby, your body, and your support system