Preconception Counseling

I offer consultation and evaluation services for women and couples beginning their reproductive journey. This might include:

• Preparation for pregnancy
• Developing a plan for managing past or emerging mental health symptoms in the context of pregnancy
• Clarifying family building goals
• Working with your partner to strengthen collaboration and communication skills to support a healthy pregnancy

Perinatal Support Services

Many women seek psychotherapy services for the first time during pregnancy, or choose to return to psychotherapy for additional support during this tumultuous time of transition. I can offer support, psychoeducation, and coping tools to women and couples who are struggling with:

• Anxiety about pregnancy
• Mood changes during pregnancy
• Coping with high-risk pregnancy and pregnancy complications
• Coping with unexpected pregnancy, ambivalence about family building, and decision-making
• Adjusting to anticipated role change and transition including family, relationship, and career
• Birth planning and preparation
• Planning and preparation for postpartum adjustment and the arrival of your new baby

Postpartum Services

Support during the postpartum transition can greatly reduce the risk of postpartum depression and anxiety. Whether you are a first-time mom or your family is growing, you may benefit from additional support to adjust to your changing family, role, and identity. This includes:

• Coping with baby blues and early postpartum adjustment
• Evaluation and treatment of postpartum depression and anxiety disorders
• Processing birth trauma
• Support with bonding, attachment, and relationship-building with your new baby
• Support and coping with birth complications, neonatal complications, or NICU experiences
• Parenting support, coaching, and education during newborn, infancy, and early childhood
• Support for growing families including parental and sibling adjustment to your new baby

Maternal Adjustment and Parent Coaching

Learning to nurture, developing a maternal identity, and managing the stresses of raising children are profound tasks that can challenge our concepts of ourselves and our families. Parental counseling can support:

• Developing skills, competence and confidence in caring for growing infants and children
• Learning to coparent effectively with your partner and other family supports
• Navigating challenges related to infant and child development, including changing and emerging needs of infants and children
• Creating effective and positive relationships, attachments, and behavior management solutions for your children and family system
• Managing stresses of work-life balance, parenting demands, parental burn-out, and caregiver fatigue

Pregnancy Loss Counseling

Pregnancy and neonatal loss are devastating events that many women and families suffer in silence. Counseling and support for the immeasurable grief of loss can be invaluable to facilitate:

• Grief processing after miscarriage, stillbirth, medical termination, or neonatal loss
• Planning and decision-making about future family-building
• Coping with the stress, anxiety and complex emotions of pregnancy following a previous loss

Infertility Counseling

Infertility affects 1 in 7 couples and is often identified as the most stressful experience in the lives of those who suffer with its impact. Consultation and therapy for women struggling with infertility can facilitate:

• Coping, stress management, and mind-body health while trying to conceive or undergoing fertility treatments
• Decision-making about fertility treatment and other family-building options including egg/sperm/embryo donation, surrogacy, and adoption
• Processing of grief, trauma and loss associated with infertility
• Supporting and improving self-worth and self-concept while managing the stress and pain of infertility
• Improving relationship health, communication, collaboration, and support during family-building journey

General Psychotherapy Services

I also offer general psychotherapy services for individual seeking to identify and modify unhelpful patterns in their thinking and behavior and make positive changes in their mood, coping, and quality of life, including:

• Assessment, consultation and treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, perfectionism, OCD, stressful life events and life transitions, and relationship issues
• Support for healthy coping and/or behavior change related to chronic or newly diagnosed medical issues