What is Perinatal Therapy?

You can love your baby and still miss your old life or the life you thought you would have.

Both things can be true.

Pregnancy, postpartum, fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, breastfeeding, weaning, and becoming a parent can affect far more than your mood.

Your body, identity, nervous system, relationship, sexuality, sleep, independence, and sense of who you are can all change at once.
 

Add hormones, exhaustion, expectations—and everyone else's opinions about how you should be feeling—and it can become a lot very quickly. 🫠
 

My trauma-informed background helps us recognize when pregnancy, birth, medical experiences, loss, or the vulnerability of becoming a parent may be activating something deeper—without automatically turning every difficult experience into trauma.
 

My relationship and sex-informed training also means we can talk openly about the parts people sometimes avoid:
 

💗 Changes in intimacy and desire
🫶 Feeling touched-out or disconnected
🧠 Anxiety, overwhelm, and intrusive thoughts
💬 Communication and resentment
⚖️ Division of responsibilities
🌸 Body changes and painful sex
🏡 Adjusting to entirely new roles and identities
 

Sometimes you're trying to figure out where the relationship you had before the baby went—and where you went in the process.
 

We make room for the beautiful parts and the parts you probably aren't putting in the baby book. 📖
 

We can work with what's actually happening.

 

Do you feel like yourself most of the month—and then suddenly wonder who took over your brain?🤯🧠

Maybe you're more anxious, irritable, emotional, overstimulated, sensitive, or reactive before your period.
 

Maybe you're wondering about PMDD or PME, questioning whether a previous mood diagnosis fully explains your experience, or coming off hormonal birth control and meeting your natural cycle again for what feels like the first time. 🔄
 

I help women understand the patterns between hormones, mood, trauma responses, nervous-system regulation, relationships, sexuality, sleep, and everyday stress.

My trauma-informed background is especially helpful here because increased sensitivity doesn't automatically mean “this must be trauma.”
 

Sometimes an old wound is being activated.
Sometimes your nervous system is overloaded.
Sometimes there's a relationship problem.
Sometimes your body is giving us information that deserves medical attention.
And sometimes you're having a perfectly reasonable emotion at a very inconvenient point in your cycle. 🌪️
 

🔎 We get curious before we get dramatic.

We'll look at what happens, when it happens, what makes it worse, and how it affects the rest of your life—including your relationships, work, sex life, self-esteem, and the decisions you make when you're overwhelmed.
 

The goal isn't to blame everything on hormones or organize your entire existence around your menstrual cycle. It's learning your patterns well enough that your cycle becomes information—not a monthly ambush.🌿