Support Through the Journey to Parenthood
Trying to build a family, navigating pregnancy, adjusting to life after a baby, or coping with reproductive loss can bring emotions you never expected. You may feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, or unsure how to make sense of everything that has changed.
Therapy offers a place to slow down, process what you are carrying, and find your footing through uncertainty and change. You do not have to wait until things feel unbearable to reach out for support.
As a California licensed clinical psychologist with specialized certification in perinatal mental health, I provide telehealth therapy throughout California for individuals navigating fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, reproductive loss, and the transition to parenthood.
You May Be Here Because…
Trying to conceive has taken over your life: Appointments, waiting, uncertainty, disappointment, and the constant cycle of hoping and preparing for bad news.
Pregnancy does not feel the way you expected: You may be anxious, disconnected, overwhelmed, or afraid to let yourself feel excited.
Postpartum feels harder than you thought it would: You love your baby, but you may also feel anxious, angry, sad, trapped, overstimulated, or unlike yourself.
You are grieving a pregnancy or reproductive loss: The world may expect you to move forward while you are still trying to understand what happened.
Becoming a parent has changed your sense of self: You may miss parts of your old life, feel guilty for wanting space, or wonder where you went in the middle of caring for everyone else.
Your relationship feels different: Parenthood, fertility struggles, loss, and changing responsibilities can affect communication, intimacy, resentment, and connection.
You are worried about your partner: Fathers and partners can experience anxiety, depression, grief, overwhelm, and identity changes too.
Reproductive & Perinatal Mental Health Support
Every path to and through parenthood is different. Therapy can offer support through the uncertainty, changes, losses, and emotional challenges that may arise along the way.
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Fertility challenges can bring a cycle of hope, uncertainty, disappointment, and difficult decisions. Therapy can provide space to process the emotional toll of trying to conceive, infertility, fertility treatment, and questions about how or whether to continue building your family.
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Pregnancy can bring joy and excitement, but it can also bring anxiety, intrusive thoughts, fear, uncertainty, and a sense of losing control. Therapy can help you navigate the emotional changes of pregnancy, particularly when the experience looks or feels different from what you expected.
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The postpartum period can feel overwhelming, isolating, and unfamiliar. You may be experiencing anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, irritability or rage, guilt, overstimulation, or simply a sense that you do not feel like yourself. Therapy can help you understand what you are experiencing, find ways to cope, and begin to feel more grounded in this new season of life.
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Miscarriage, stillbirth, pregnancy termination, and other reproductive losses can bring profound grief as well as emotions that may be difficult to name or share with others. Therapy offers a space to grieve without expectations about what your loss should mean, how you should feel, or how quickly you should move forward.
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Becoming a parent can change your relationships, priorities, responsibilities, and sense of who you are. You can deeply love your child and still miss your independence, your relationships, your work, or parts of the person you were before. Therapy can help you make space for these mixed emotions while finding your footing in the person and parent you are becoming.
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Pregnancy, fertility challenges, loss, and the transition to parenthood affect partners too. Fathers and partners may experience anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, overwhelm, or their own shifts in identity. Therapy can provide a space to process these experiences while navigating changing roles, relationships, and family life.
Specialized Care, Grounded in Understanding
Reproductive and perinatal mental health deserves care that understands the complexity of these experiences. As a California licensed clinical psychologist and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH C), I bring specialized training in perinatal mental health along with more than 15 years of clinical experience.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in evidence based care. Therapy is tailored to you, your experiences, and what you need in this season of your life.