MEET ANA VELOUISE (SHE), LMFT, PMH-C, PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST BASED IN PASADENA, CA AND ONLINE ACROSS CALIFORNIA
When navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, or postpartum adjustment feels overwhelming, specialized support matters.
You’re not meant to carry this alone.
You may have imagined pregnancy, early parenthood, or building your family very differently than this.
When infertility, pregnancy loss, or postpartum challenges enter the picture, it can bring waves of anxiety, grief, and questions you can’t seem to turn off.
You may find yourself researching late into the night, wondering what went wrong.
Or feeling emotions you didn’t expect—jealousy, shame, anger, fear.
This is where specialized support matters.
I work with people who are moving through infertility, pregnancy loss, and postpartum seasons that can make the path to parenthood feel destabilizing and overwhelming. Together, we bring clarity to what you’re carrying and develop practical ways to help you feel more regulated, more supported, and less alone in it.
In our work together, there is space to name the thoughts and feelings that may feel too heavy or complicated to say anywhere else. We slow things down, make sense of what’s happening beneath the anxiety, and develop practical ways to help you feel more regulated day to day.
Support from someone who truly understands this territory
Many of the people who find their way to my practice have already tried to explain their experience to others — friends, family members, even other professionals — only to feel misunderstood or minimized.
Infertility, pregnancy loss, and postpartum mental health challenges exist in a space that is often invisible to the outside world. The grief can be ambiguous. The anxiety relentless. The questions endless.
As a perinatal mental health specialist (PMH-C), this is the work I have chosen to focus on. I have dedicated my training and clinical practice to understanding the psychological realities of infertility, reproductive loss, and the postpartum period.
Clients often tell me that one of the greatest reliefs in our work together is not having to start by explaining why this hurts so much. We can begin from a place of shared understanding.
Clients often describe our work together
as both grounding and clarifying.
They tell me it is a relief to speak openly about thoughts and emotions they’ve felt unable to say anywhere else (perhaps jealousy, anger, ambivalence, or fear) and to have those experiences met with understanding rather than judgment.
At the same time, our work is not only about talking through what’s painful. Together we identify patterns, make sense of what’s happening beneath the anxiety, and develop practical ways to help you feel more regulated and supported between sessions.
Many clients say that for the first time in a long while, they leave a session feeling a little more steady—and with something concrete to try in the week ahead.
My practice is dedicated to supporting people navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, postpartum mental health challenges, and birth trauma.
AREAS OF CLINICAL SPECIALIZATION
Infertility & TTC Challenges
Support for the anxiety, grief, and uncertainty that can accompany infertility, fertility treatments, and the complex path toward building a family, including queer family building.
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Pregnancy Loss & Reproductive Grief
Therapy for those navigating miscarriage, TFMR, stillbirth, or complicated reproductive loss, and the grief that often feels invisible to others. >>> Learn more.
Postpartum Mental Health
Support for postpartum anxiety, depression, identity shifts, and the emotional intensity that can follow pregnancy and birth.
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Birth Trauma
Space to process difficult or traumatic birth experiences and make sense of how they continue to affect your body, mind, and transition into parenthood. >>> Learn more.
Training in Perinatal & Reproductive Mental Health
My work focuses specifically on the psychological realities of infertility, pregnancy loss, postpartum mental health, and birth trauma. I have pursued advanced training in perinatal mental health and reproductive psychology to support clients navigating these experiences.
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Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in CA, #155005 (Verify my license.)
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Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C), Postpartum Support International
EMDR Basic Training, EMDRIA
Interpersonal Therapy Training, IPT Institute
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Perinatal Mental Health Clients, Fulfilled Motherhood
Art of Holding Perinatal Distress, Postpartum Stress Center
Pregnancy Loss and Newborn Death for Psychotherapists, Touchstone Institute
Navigating Trans and Nonbinary Perinatal Mental Health, Maternal Mental Health Now
Mental Health Professionals Training Modules, American Society for Reproductive Medicine
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Board Member, CA Chapter of Postpartum Support International
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Postpartum Support International (PSI)
RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
RTZ HOPE for Perinatal Loss
GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality
Specialized support for one of the most vulnerable seasons of life.
Infertility, pregnancy loss, and postpartum mental health challenges often bring experiences that feel difficult to explain, even to the people closest to you.
My work is dedicated to supporting people through these seasons with both clinical expertise and practical guidance. Together, we make sense of what you’re carrying and develop ways to help you move through this time with greater steadiness and support.