Specialized Perinatal Mental Health Care
Pregnancy, postpartum, and the transition into motherhood bring enormous shifts, and the anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or low mood that can show up during this window deserve specialized, compassionate care. As a PMH-C certified clinician, I support women through the full arc of the perinatal period, from trying to conceive through postpartum, with an understanding of how identity, hormones, and nervous system regulation are all connected during this time
Signs You May Need Support
You are having intrusive thoughts about harm coming to your baby, they are unwanted, and you have not told anyone because you are afraid of how they would respond
You are anxious in a way that does not respond to reassurance, checking the monitor, the breathing, the latch, the milestones, well past the point of usefulness.
You cannot sleep even when the baby is sleeping, which is a different problem than exhaustion and needs to be treated as one.
You feel rage, often at your partner, often out of nowhere, and it does not match the person you understand yourself to be.
You are going through the motions of caring for your baby without feeling connected to her, and the guilt about that gap is worse than the gap itself.
Your birth did not go the way you expected, and you find yourself returning to it, avoiding reminders of it, or unable to talk about it without a physical reaction.
You are navigating infertility, loss, or a pregnancy after loss, and every appointment carries a weight
You have been told this is normal, that it is just hormones, or that it will pass, and you have known for a while that this is something more than adjustment.
Our Approach to Perinatal Mental Health
Care from a PMH-C, a clinician holding the Perinatal Mental Health Certification through Postpartum Support International, which means specialized training
Accurate assessment that distinguishes among perinatal anxiety, depression, OCD, and birth trauma, since these are frequently collapsed into a single postpartum depression label
Exposure and response prevention for perinatal OCD, including the intrusive harm thoughts that so often go unreported
Cognitive behavioral therapy adapted for the perinatal period, addressing the specific thoughts about competence, bonding, and worthiness that show up in this season.
Birth trauma processing at your pace, with no expectation that you retell the story before you are ready.
Support through fertility treatment, pregnancy loss, termination for medical reasons, and pregnancy after loss.
Matrescence work, meaning the identity shift of becoming a mother, which is developmental rather than pathological
Optional coordination with your OB, midwife, doula, lactation consultant, or prescriber, and telehealth throughout, so care fits around feeding schedules and naps rather than competing with them.