Counseling For Depression and Anxiety
During Pregnancy and Postpartum
What is Perinatal Mental Health?
Perinatal mental health refers to a person’s emotional wellness during trying to conceive, pregnancy, up the first year after birth. Does this mean if you have older kids this treatment won’t help? Nope. What many experience during pregnancy and postpartum can have longer lasting effects on our health.
Stress and Anxiety During Pregnancy
Do you ever find yourself thinking how worried is “too worried”? Anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum is normal, but its often hard to figure out what will help and what kind of help we need.
Plus, people love to chime in about how you “should” be feeling or doing :)
Regardless of how intense your worry is, you deserve support and therapy can help.
Common challenges we might address :
* Fertility Challenges * Worry about how your life might change * Managing work stress while pregnant * Changing roles and family dynamics * Health anxiety * Worry about if you’ll be a good parent *
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety
Most people experience some signs of “baby blues” directly after birth to 2 weeks after birth, but some find that they continue to struggle with constant worry, rage, sadness or grief.
Many people are also faced with loss when trying to become pregnant. Grieving these losses or difficult decisions isn’t easy, but giving yourself time to process and grieve can help make your path forward clearer.
Identity Transition
There is a term for the experience of transitioning into motherhood :
Matresence.
Like the term “adolescence”, its a term that describes an ongoing, unfolding change. At times beautiful and at times messy. It changes us physically, psychologically, emotionally, socially.
Spending time to better understand your emotions can help you cope with these changes, ride the emotional waves (yours and your kids), and continue to grow and thrive.