PERIPARTUM SUPPORT

The Peripartum era is a time of SO MUCH CHANGE! Physical, emotional, and sometimes even spiritual. It is ripe with opportunities to expand and grow, but it can also be a minefield of tough expectations, adjustments (lack of sleep and alone time anyone?!), and the emergence of forgotten childhood wounds both conscious and unconscious. Our worlds change, our partners change, and even our brains change when a baby is born and brought home! There are many opportunities for healing during this time as well as opportunities for repeating old, long forgotten family patterns and attachment styles. Therapy can serve as a welcome ground to explore the myriad themes that can arise. Whether it is to discuss the complicated (or even shame inducing) feelings a person may experience while caring for a tiny and very dependent human being, one’s relationship to their evolving and former selves (before and after having kids), or the dynamics that emerge with one’s partner and other children when a newborn arrives to the family ecosphere. Women (and primary caregivers), in particular, are often riddled with a kaleidoscope of feelings such as anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, a feeling of not being “good enough” for their little ones and in life. Men can have their own experience too- that of anxiety, loss, separateness, panic around the immense felt sense of responsibility bestowed upon them as new fathers. The burdens of gender roles and the often misaligned allocation of household duties. So much can get stirred up in our psyches, in our households, and in our place in the world with the arrival of a baby. There is so much pressure for it to all be “great” and for us to be “perfect parents.” Therapy can help to provide a space to explore these feelings and help you to discover how you want YOUR parenting journey to go, how to do things on YOUR terms, and how to create the life YOU envision for you and your family. Whether you are parenting as a single parent, a same sex,  or a hetero couple, therapy can serve as a space to be heard, seen without judgement, and warmly supported.