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, during pregnancy, and in 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.

You might be coming to therapy feeling confused and disappointed by why this season feels harder than expected. Working with me means you don’t have to spend time explaining the complexities of fertility treatments, pregnancy loss, or postpartum adjustment during sessions.

Perinatal therapy can support people who are navigating:

• Infertility, trying to conceive, or fertility treatment stress

• Queer family building

• Pregnancy loss, TFMR, stillbirth, or recurrent miscarriage

• Pregnancy anxiety or depression

• Traumatic birth experiences

• NICU stays or medical complications involving a newborn

• Postpartum anxiety or depression

• Relationship strain during the transition to parenthood

• Intergenerational trauma

• Difficulty adjusting to the identity shift of becoming a parent

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:

• Reduce anxiety and overwhelming thoughts

• Cope with uncertainty and the loss of control

• Heal from traumatic reproductive experiences

• Navigate relationship challenges during early parenthood

• Build confidence in your identity as a parent

• Feel more emotionally steady and present in your life