Thinking about becoming pregnant, experiencing fertility issues or pregnancy loss, becoming pregnant, carrying a baby, going through the process of adoption, and becoming a mother: this process of becoming a mother is now being called matrescence and is completely life-altering.

While miraculous, there is no denying the multitude of changes that occur with your physical body, hormones, and brain. Your identity is changing, you might feel the loss of a life that you had before children, and shifts in your relationship with your partner and other family members.

You might be excited, but unsure and anxious about how you’ll raise your children and what kind of family you want to create. Together, we can understand your values, talk through and make sense of these shifts and relationship dynamics, and explore any feelings you might be experiencing.

Sometimes women can experience longer-lasting symptoms of depression, anxiety or others, beyond the initial postpartum period known as the baby blues. I treat women in all stages and areas of the postpartum period and parenthood.

Parenthood is beautiful. It is also messy and complicated. Our work together will be in the service of showing how the two can exist side by side in a more harmonious way.