Specialized therapy for individuals and couples navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, traumatic birth experiences, and the emotional transition into parenthood.
Perinatal Therapy in Los Angeles & Pasadena, CA, Online Across California
When the Path to Parenthood Is More Complicated Than Expected
The transition into parenthood can be one of the most significant psychological shifts in a person’s life.
While this season is often described as joyful and fulfilling, many people also experience anxiety, grief, uncertainty, and emotional upheaval along the way.
You may be trying to conceive or navigating fertility treatments that feel physically and emotionally exhausting.
You might be carrying the grief of pregnancy loss or struggling to make sense of a traumatic birth experience.
Perhaps you are adjusting to life with a newborn while feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of yourself as a parent.
If you’re partnered, this season can place significant strain on a relationship. The pressure of medical decisions, sleep deprivation, and emotional stress can make communication and connection more difficult.
Perinatal therapy offers space to process these experiences with a specialist who understands the unique emotional challenges that can arise during trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.
What is Perinatal Therapy?
Perinatal therapy focuses on the emotional and psychological experiences that occur during the reproductive and early parenting years.
This includes the time spent trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, and the early years of a child’s life.
While these experiences are often portrayed as joyous, they can also involve profound stress, grief, identity shifts, and unexpected relational and mental challenges.
Working with a therapist who specializes in perinatal mental health means you don’t have to spend time explaining the complexities of fertility treatments, pregnancy loss, or postpartum adjustment.
As a perinatal mental health specialist (PMH-C), I support individuals and couples navigating the emotional realities of these experiences with both tenderness and practical tools.
Many people arrive in therapy feeling confused about why this season feels harder than they expected. Therapy helps bring clarity, stability, and direction during a time that can feel unclear, unstable, and disorienting.
Who Perinatal Therapy is for
Perinatal therapy can support people who are navigating:
Infertility, trying to conceive, or fertility treatment stress
Pregnancy loss, TFMR, or recurrent miscarriage
Pregnancy anxiety or depression
Traumatic birth experiences
NICU stays or medical complications involving a newborn
Postpartum anxiety or depression
Difficulty adjusting to the identity shift of becoming a parent
Relationship strain during the transition to parenthood
Perinatal therapy is available for individuals and couples, including LGBTQ+ families and those who built their families through assisted reproduction or fostering/adoption.
How Perinatal Therapy Can Help
Perinatal therapy helps you make sense of experiences that can feel overwhelming, destabilizing, or difficult to talk about elsewhere.
Our work together may focus on helping you:
Manage anxiety and overwhelming thoughts
Process grief and reproductive loss
Heal from traumatic birth experiences
Navigate relationship challenges during early parenthood
Build confidence in yourself as a parent
Feel more grounded and emotionally present in your life
My approach combines depth therapy with practical strategies to help you feel more stable and supported as you navigate this season.
Areas of Specialization
Support for individuals and couples navigating infertility, IVF, and the emotional strain of trying to conceive.
Therapy for grief, identity shifts, and emotional healing following miscarriage, TFMR, or stillbirth.
Support for anxiety, depression, identity changes, and emotional challenges during the early months and years of parenting.
Trauma-informed therapy for those struggling with the emotional aftermath of a traumatic birth experience, including NICU stays.
How Perinatal Therapy Works
Beginning therapy during the perinatal period can feel like a lot to take on, especially when you are already navigating significant emotional and practical demands. But getting started is simple.
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The first step is a brief video consultation where we briefly discuss what has been happening and what kind of support you are looking for. This helps us determine whether we’d be a good fit to work together.
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In our early sessions, we’ll focus on reducing what feels most intense right now—the spiraling, the overwhelm, the grief—while building a strong foundation of trust and safety in our work together. You don’t have to tell your whole story at once. We’ll move at a pace that feels manageable.
Sessions may be ongoing weekly therapy, text therapy on your schedule, or focused trauma processing work, depending on your goals and needs.
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As we continue, we’ll address both the present stress and the deeper patterns being stirred up. You’ll develop practical tools, process unresolved experiences, and begin responding from a more grounded place, so this season strengthens you rather than unravels you.
You Don’t Have to Navigate This Season Alone
The path into parenthood doesn’t always unfold the way we expect.
Having specialized support during this time can make a meaningful difference.
Perinatal therapy will help you process difficult experiences, develop practical coping tools, and move forward with greater clarity and steadiness.