What This Space Is

The transition into parenthood is often described as joyful. For many, it is also overwhelming, frightening, isolating, or filled with grief.

Perinatal mental health therapy is support for individuals navigating the emotional challenges that can arise during pregnancy and the first year postpartum.

This includes:
  • Postpartum depression
  • Postpartum anxiety
  • Birth trauma
  • NICU experiences
  • Pregnancy after loss
  • Perinatal grief
  • Complicated feelings about becoming a parent

You may love your baby deeply and still feel like you are struggling. You may feel disconnected, exhausted, or unsure of yourself. You may be grieving a previous loss while trying to bond with a new child.

All of that belongs here.

How This Support Can Help

Many parents in the perinatal period quietly wonder:
  • Why does this feel harder than I expected?
  • Why am I so anxious all the time?
  • Am I doing this wrong?
  • Why can’t I just enjoy this?
  • What if something happens to my baby?

Therapy can offer:
  • A steady place to talk honestly about intrusive thoughts, fear, or sadness
  • Support processing difficult birth or NICU experiences
  • Guidance in navigating pregnancy after loss
  • Tools to manage anxiety and mood changes
  • Help reducing shame around emotions that feel “not allowed”
  • Reassurance that struggling does not make you a bad parent

There is no judgment here. Only space to understand what is happening and how to move through it.

Take the Next Step

If you are navigating pregnancy, postpartum changes, or parenting after loss and longing for a space that understands both the medical and emotional sides of this experience, we invite you to reach out.

We offer a free 15-minute consultation to see if working together feels like the right fit.

Online therapy available throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

What Healing Can Look Like

Over time, many parents begin to:
  • Feel less alone in their experience
  • Understand the difference between intrusive thoughts and reality
  • Reduce anxiety and mood intensity
  • Rebuild confidence in their parenting
  • Process birth trauma or NICU memories
  • Feel more connected to themselves and their baby

This season can be tender and complicated. You do not have to perform happiness here. You are allowed to be honest about what this has been like.

Our Approach to This Work

We have spent years working alongside families in hospital settings, including labor and delivery, NICU, and pediatric intensive care environments. We understand the emotional intensity that can surround pregnancy, birth, and early parenting.

One of our clinicians holds a Perinatal Mental Health Certification, reflecting specialized training in this area.

Our work is:
  • Client-centered and collaborative
  • Trauma-informed
  • Supportive and validating
  • Flexible based on your current stage of pregnancy or postpartum

In early sessions, we focus on listening and understanding what feels most present for you. We talk about expectations, normalize what can feel frightening or confusing, and create a plan together that feels manageable.

Some clients benefit from weekly sessions at first. Others prefer biweekly support. We move at a pace that feels sustainable.