Therapy for Perinatal Mental Health

You’re not alone — and you’re not failing.
Pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period bring massive changes — physically, emotionally, and mentally. While this time is often painted as joyful and magical, the truth is: it can also be incredibly hard. If you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, identity shifts, or just the weight of it all… you’re not broken. You’re human.

Therapy offers a safe, supportive space to process what you’re going through and reconnect with yourself — without judgment or pressure to “just enjoy it.”

What Is Perinatal Mental Health?

Perinatal mental health includes emotional and psychological well-being during pregnancy and throughout the first year after birth. It’s not just about postpartum depression — though that’s common — it also includes:

  • Prenatal or postpartum anxiety

  • Intrusive or scary thoughts

  • Birth trauma or medical trauma

  • Perfectionism or fear of “not doing it right”

  • Rage, irritability, or emotional numbness

  • Difficulty bonding with your baby

  • Grief and loss (including miscarriage or infertility struggles)

  • Identity shifts and relationship stress

  • Overwhelm, burnout, and loss of self

These are not signs of weakness — they are signs you need support.

How Therapy Can Help

You don’t have to carry this alone. Therapy provides space to slow down, breathe, and say the hard things out loud — even the ones you’re scared to admit.

In therapy, you can:

  • Feel validated in your emotions and experiences

  • Process birth trauma, loss, or medical complications

  • Work through anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts

  • Explore identity shifts in motherhood, parenthood, and partnership

  • Learn grounding and coping tools to manage stress and overwhelm

  • Reconnect with your body, your voice, and your needs

Whether you're in the early days of postpartum or months into adjusting to life with a new baby, therapy can meet you where you are — with gentleness and care.

This Season is Hard — Support Can Make It Softer

You don’t have to “bounce back.” You don’t have to do it all. You don’t have to keep pretending everything’s fine if it’s not.

Therapy is a space where it’s okay to fall apart and be held. Where your grief, joy, fear, love, confusion — all of it — has room to breathe.

You're not alone
And it's not too late.

It can be overwhelming to start therapy, but Rachel works to make it feel safe and supportive!

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