Holistic Support for Postpartum Anxiety and Depression

Reclaim Your Motherhood

Postpartum Anxiety & Depression Beyond the Surface

The journey into motherhood is transformative, but it can also be incredibly challenging. If you’re experiencing postpartum anxiety or depression, you're not alone. Many women find themselves struggling with more than just emotional changes. The shifts in your body and mind during pregnancy and postpartum are profound, often involving:

  • Nutritional Depletion: Pregnancy and breastfeeding demand significant nutrients, and deficiencies can exacerbate mental health symptoms.

  • Birth Trauma: Difficult or traumatic birth experiences can leave lasting emotional scars.

  • Early Separation of the Mother-Baby Dyad: Disruptions in the crucial early bonding period can impact both mother and baby.

  • Breastfeeding Challenges: Physical and emotional difficulties with breastfeeding can contribute to stress and anxiety.

These factors, combined with societal pressures and unrealistic expectations, can create a perfect storm for postpartum anxiety and depression.

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A Period of Profound Change and Healing

Just like adolescence, the postpartum period is a time of incredible brain plasticity. This means it’s a unique window for deep healing, but also a time of increased vulnerability. The massive hormonal shifts, physical changes, and emotional adjustments you’re experiencing are deeply interconnected.

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My Approach: Laying the Foundation for Healing

I understand that motherhood is often a whirlwind of sleepless nights, forgotten showers, and overwhelming emotions. My goal is to provide a safe and supportive space where you can:

  • Understand what postpartum anxiety and depression mean for you personally.

  • Address the root causes, including nutritional depletion, birth trauma, and breastfeeding challenges.

  • Reconnect with your motherly intuition and find ease in motherhood.

  • Develop coping strategies to navigate the challenges of new motherhood.

  • Heal past trauma.

  • Learn how to regulate your nervous system.

  • Learn to advocate for your needs.

Together, we can change the narrative of postpartum depression and anxiety. I'm here to help you lay the foundation for significant healing, even amidst the chaos of new motherhood.

If you're ready to begin your healing journey, please reach out for a consultation. Let's work together to create a more peaceful and fulfilling postpartum experience

Matrescence

“The process of becoming a mother, coined by Dana Raphael, Ph.D. (1973), is a developmental passage where a woman transitions through pre-conception, pregnancy and birth, surrogacy or adoption, to the postnatal period and beyond.

The exact length of matrescence is individual, recurs with each child, and may arguably last a lifetime! The scope of the changes encompass multiple domains–bio-psycho–social–political–spiritual–and can be likened to the developmental push of adolescence”

–Dr. Aurelie Athan, Columbia University

Where are you in your motherhood journey?

  • Beginning at conception, hormones begin to change brain structure and nervous system regulation. This is happening at the same time you’re navigating changing relationship dynamics, making choices about your birth preferences, setting boundaries with family, experiencing body changes, and feeling the weight of being responsible for another human being.

    Support in this chapter can help you find your intuition to confidently navigate this transitional time in a way that feels best to YOU.

  • Postpartum is a hard to define stage, it certainly lasts longer than three months. Neurologically speaking, postpartum is approximately two years as the brain undergoes restructuring. From my perspective, if the term resonates with you, you’re postpartum. It’s such a tender stage, filled with love and bonding but also sleepless nights, intense demands, grief and information overload. 

    Support in this chapter can help you identify practical supports, embrace imperfection, process grief, and ultimately learn how to tune out the noise and listen to yourself.

  • Motherhood is an ongoing evolution, just as you conquer one phase, you’re on to the next. In a world of incessant parenting advice and hacks, it’s easy to lose your confidence and feel like you are inevitably f***ing up your kids. 

    I believe supporting mothers in parenting means reconnecting them with their intuition. You are the expert of your own child, you already know what they need, I’m just here to help you find that inner knowing.