Every woman I work with is different. These are the areas I work with most often. If you don't see your struggle listed here, please reach out anyway. If I can't help, I'll point you in the right direction.
My Specialties
For when motherhood feels nothing like you imagined
Postpartum & The Fourth Trimester
Nobody prepared you for this. You knew it would be hard. You knew you would be tired. But you did not expect to feel like this. Overwhelmed in a way that is hard to describe. Not quite yourself. Not sure what is happening to you or whether what you are feeling is normal or something more.
And on top of all of it, everyone keeps telling you to enjoy every second.
The postpartum period can bring up things you never expected. You might be experiencing:
An overwhelming feeling that you cannot get on top of no matter what you do
Guilt for not feeling the instant bond or the constant joy you thought you would feel
Hormones that have you crying one minute and fine the next with no explanation
Conflict with your partner that feels bigger and more frequent than before
A loss of identity so complete that you are not sure who you are anymore outside of being a mother
Feeling like a bad mother even when you are doing everything right
Going through the motions of caring for your baby while feeling completely disconnected from the experience
If any of that sounds familiar, you are not alone. And you are not a bad mother. You are a person who needs support.
The Pressure To Be Grateful
Society has a very specific idea of what new motherhood should look like. And if your experience does not match that picture, it is easy to feel like you are failing at something everyone else seems to find natural.
You are supposed to be grateful. You are supposed to be glowing. You are supposed to be soaking up every moment.
And instead you are exhausted, overwhelmed, and not sure you recognize yourself in the mirror anymore.
That does not make you ungrateful. It makes you human. New motherhood is one of the most significant identity shifts a person can go through, and it deserves more than a "you should be so happy" from the people around you.
More Than Just The Baby Blues
Most new mothers experience the baby blues in the first two weeks after birth. Mood swings, tearfulness, and emotional sensitivity come and go. This is normal and usually resolves on its own.
But when those feelings persist, intensify, or start to interfere with your daily life, something more may be going on.
Postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety are real, common, and treatable. They do not mean you are broken. They do not mean you do not love your baby. They are a sign that your mind and body have been through something enormous, and they need support.
You do not have to wait until things get unbearable to reach out. If something feels off, that is reason enough to ask for help.
Postpartum After Infertility or Loss
If you worked hard to have this baby, the pressure to feel nothing but gratitude can feel crushing. You went through so much to get here. And now you are struggling, and you do not feel like you have the right to say so.
You absolutely do.
Postpartum depression and anxiety after infertility or loss carry their own particular weight. The grief, the trauma, the exhaustion of the journey to get here all show up in the postpartum period too. Therapy can hold all of that complexity without asking you to minimize any part of it.
What Our Work Together Looks Like
Therapy is not about fixing everything or arriving at a place where none of this is hard anymore. What it can do is give you a space to stop carrying it alone.
In our work together, we will make room for all of it. The overwhelm, the guilt, the grief, the identity questions, and the love that sits right alongside all of it. We will work on understanding what is happening to you, finding moments of steadiness in the chaos, and slowly reconnecting with yourself in the middle of this enormous transition.