Perinatal Support

From conception to the postpartum period, many individuals face significant challenges within the parenting journey that can have profound impacts on the well-being of the mother, infant, partner, and the entire family unit, including heterosexual, same-sex, and non-binary partnerships.

I offer comprehensive perinatal services that take a relational approach, providing guidance and support for individuals and families facing perinatal mental health issues.

My experience allows me to provide care for the most common perinatal mental health conditions, as well as complex situations such as postpartum psychosis, late miscarriage, infant loss, and birth trauma. I am focused on parental bonding, attachment, and affect regulation.

I also provide support for fathers, partners and couples, and for those who are contemplating becoming parents.

“Navigating the challenges of parenthood is a shared human experience that deserves understanding, compassion, and support.”

What I can help with

Parenthood presents significant challenges from conception to postpartum that can impact the well-being of mothers, infants, partners, and families. Comprehensive perinatal support can help in navigating perinatal mental health issues.

Preconception

  • Exploring uncertainty about the parenting journey

  • Supporting individuals and couples (heterosexual, same-sex, and non-binary) facing fertility challenges and infertility

  • Navigating assisted reproductive technologies, including IVF, donor conception (egg and sperm), and surrogacy

Pregnancy & Birth

  • Hyperemesis Gravidarum (severe nausea and vomiting)

  • Tokophobia (intense fear of childbirth)

  • Pregnancy loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, SIDS)

  • Birth trauma

  • Perinatal anxiety, stress, distress, and disturbance

  • Perinatal depression

Postpartum

  • Birth trauma recovery

  • Postpartum psychosis

  • Postpartum stress and anxiety

  • Bonding and attachment difficulties

  • Affect (emotional) regulation challenges

  • Intense fear and PTSD related to childbirth and parenting

Group work with mothers and babies

I also offer a small therapy group that would accommodate three perinatal mothers and their babies. To help create and sustain confidentiality and emotional safety, once the group is established, participants go through the process together, without the introduction of new members.

A course of group therapy is offered at a reduced rate, and runs periodically over the year, each course lasting approximately 8 weeks. Sessions would run for an hour each week from my home-based clinic, and I welcome mums who would like to bottle feed, breast feed and/or change their babies during sessions.