Counseling Services for Fertility, Pregnancy Loss, Postpartum, and Parenting
A Place Where All the Scary and Hard Parts of Your Parenting Journey Are Welcome
Ana Velouise (she), LMFT, PMH-C
Does this sound familiar?
This isn’t going how you thought it would. You want to feel confident and hopeful in your parenting journey, but instead you feel inadequate, irritable, and that despite all your efforts, it’s never good enough. Perhaps you find your relationships with your partner, friends, and family are strained because they just don’t seem to understand what you’re going through. Maybe you’re overwhelmed and frustrated by the gap between your expectations and the reality of your parenting passage.
Whether you’re trying to conceive, you’ve recently experienced a pregnancy loss, or you’re newly postpartum, this is the place for you.
Life doesn’t have to stay this way. It may feel impossible now, but you can feel emotionally stable again. You can improve your communication with your loved ones so that you receive more help and understanding. You can prioritize your wellbeing without neglecting your responsibilities.
Together, we’ll process your past experiences so they’re not haunting your present and develop new coping skills to be better equipped for future stressors.
SPECIALITIES
Navigate the waiting process and the ups and downs of fertility treatments with the support of a therapist who is trained in the particulars of infertility. Learn more.
Process your grief and find emotional steadiness again with a therapist who is trained in pregnancy loss and won’t sugarcoat your experience. Learn more.
Reconnect to yourself and develop more emotional stability with the help of a perinatal mental health specialist you can trust. Learn more.
Feel seen and understood during the hurdles and joys that can accompany building your family as an LGBTQ+ parent alongside a therapist who is also a fellow queer parent. Learn more.
Find your center amidst the chaos and shift your twin parenting experience with the help of a fellow twin parent and therapist who is knowledgable about the impact of multiples. Learn more.
Hi, I’m Ana (“Aw-na”).
I will be in the messy, hard parts of your parenting journey with you.
I provide counseling to people navigating the transition to parenthood using evidence-based mental health modalities.
Therapy with me will support you in developing a more positive self-image as a capable and resilient person. You’ll grow confidence in your unique strengths, learn new coping skills that are realistic for this season of life, and shift intergenerational patterns to create a positive legacy for future generations.
How It Works
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Your first step is to book a consultation here. You can get a sense of whether we’d be a good fit to work together and I’ll answer any questions you have.
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Join me each week to check in on updates, collaborate on our focus for that session, and close with takeaways and between-session fieldwork. You’ll enhance your understanding of your current distress, learn new, realistic coping tools, and improve your emotional wellbeing.
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I’ll be in the messy, hard parts of your experience with you. Together, we’ll work to process past experiences, learn new ways of relating to yourself and others, and bolster your confidence to feel strong enough to deal with any future stressors.
