Postpartum Planning for Twin Parents: How to Mentally & Practically Prepare
Welcoming twins is a profoundly joyful and transformative experience — but it’s also a uniquely demanding one. Developing a postpartum plan in advance is one of the most practical steps you can take to support your whole household’s wellbeing during this intense time.
Pregnancy After Loss: Navigating Hope and Fear
After a miscarriage, TFMR, stillbirth, or other fertility loss, many parents expect that a new pregnancy will finally bring relief. Instead, it often reawakens grief. The emotional terrain of pregnancy after loss is complex, and your reactions—whatever they are—make perfect sense in the context of your prior experiences.
Choosing Between a Therapy Intensive and Weekly Therapy: Which Is Right for You?
Whether you’re navigating fertility challenges, early parenthood, or the emotional complexity of balancing career and family, your time and energy are precious. When life is full, choosing the right therapy format can make all the difference.
Family Building Options for Lesbian Couples (+ 5 Ways to Emotionally Prepare)
Whether you’re in the early stages of exploring options, in conversations with your partner to resolve key differences, or ready to take the next step, understanding the routes available and preparing emotionally for the journey can help you feel grounded and connected throughout the process.
Beyond Biology: 6 Baby Bonding Tips for Non-Gestational Parents
While the birthing parent experiences a physical connection through pregnancy and birth, the non-gestational parent may wonder how to step into their role and nurture attachment. The good news: bonding is not limited to biology! With intention, presence, and patience, non-gestational parents can build strong, lifelong connections with their children that start from infancy.
Is a Therapy Intensive the Right Fit for You? Key Factors to Consider
Wondering if a therapy intensive is the right fit for you? If weekly sessions feel hard to sustain with your work schedule—or if you’re craving faster progress—therapy intensives may be the answer. Learn who benefits most, what to consider before booking, and how intensives like EMDR therapy or couples intensives in LA can help you move forward.
The Emotional Toll of Infertility on Couples (+ 4 Coping Strategies)
As a reproductive therapist, I’ve seen how this season of life can test communication, intimacy, and connection for couples, but also how it can create profound closeness when prioritized as an important source of support.
Group Therapy vs. Individual Therapy: Which Is Right for You?
When you’re navigating the tender seasons of trying to conceive, pregnancy loss, or being postpartum, you may find yourself wondering where to turn for support. You may already know that therapy can help—but choosing between individual vs group therapy can feel like another decision on an already full plate.
8 Metaphors for Parenting Twins During the First Year
Sometimes, when words fall short, metaphors can help us capture the experience. Researcher and RN Cheryl Tatano Beck conducted a qualitative study exploring how parents describe the reality of parenting twins during that first year, and the metaphors they used beautifully reflect the emotional landscape of raising multiples.
Top 5 Benefits of Therapy Intensives for Faster Healing
Intensives are extended therapy sessions—often lasting several hours in one day or across a weekend—that allow you to go deeper, faster. Instead of unpacking a little each week, you can focus deeply and move through the layers of what’s weighing on you in a more concentrated and healing way.
How to Know If It’s Baby Blues or Postpartum Depression
You’ve just brought your baby home, and everyone keeps telling you how magical this time is supposed to be. But instead of soaking in the newborn snuggles and taking endless photos, you find yourself crying for no clear reason, snapping at your partner, or feeling numb and disconnected from it all. You’re wondering: Is this just baby blues, or is it something more?
Four Reasons Why Support Groups Can Feel Triggering—And What to Do About It
Support groups can be deeply healing—but they can also stir up complex emotions, especially for people who are navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy, or postpartum recovery. Instead of rejecting groups as a source of support, understanding why this happens can help you approach groups with more compassion for yourself and clarity about what to do when triggered.
Navigating the Wait: 7 Coping Skills for Your Fertility Journey
The journey to become pregnant can be emotionally and physically demanding, with waiting periods often being one of the most challenging aspects. Whether you're waiting for your period to arrive (or not), test results, the outcome of an IVF cycle, or the next step in your treatment plan, the uncertainty can feel overwhelming.
Understanding Birth Trauma: How to Know if You Had a Traumatic Birth
Birth is often portrayed as a joyful and transformative experience, but for many parents, it can be deeply distressing or even traumatic. This blog post explores birth trauma definition, causes, signs and symptoms, and treatment options.
Preparing for EMDR: Dos and Don'ts
EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a powerful trauma processing therapy that utilizes bilateral stimulation to unlock maladaptively stored memories. If you're new to EMDR therapy and don't know how to prepare yourself for the process, here are some basic guidelines to follow.
5 Ways That Support Groups Complement Individual Therapy
If you’ve ever been in therapy, you know how valuable it can be to have a safe space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and challenges. Many people find that support groups add an extra layer of healing, connection, and insight that one-on-one therapy alone may not provide.
LGBTQIA+ and Mental Health: What the Statistics Tell Us
Despite increasing societal acceptance, LGBTQ+ individuals continue to face persistent stigma and discrimination. These ongoing stressors contribute to significant social and health disparities within this community.
The Invisible Toll of Infertility
Infertility can be a deeply distressing experience, affecting millions of individuals and couples worldwide. For many, the inability to conceive shatters long-held dreams and expectations of parenthood.
Bonding with Baby: What to Do When You Don't Feel Connected
You might expect an instant, magical connection when you bring your newborn home. However, the reality of bonding with a baby can be quite different. It's perfectly normal for that rush of love and attachment to develop.
Grieving an Unhappy Childhood as an LGBTQ+ Parent
Parenthood is often framed as a journey of joy, discovery, and love. But for LGBTQ+ parents who grew up with unhappy childhoods, raising children can also bring up deep emotional wounds.