Holistic Support for Postpartum Anxiety and Depression

Reclaim Your Motherhood

Postpartum Anxiety & Depression Beyond the Surface

 The transition into motherhood is transformative, a profound initiation, and it often brings challenges we don't fully anticipate. If you're experiencing postpartum anxiety or depression, please know that you're not alone, and you're not simply experiencing "emotional changes." I see you, and I understand that there's often much more going on beneath the surface.

    I'm here to offer a perspective that goes beyond the typical focus on just emotional fluctuations. The shifts in your body and mind during pregnancy and postpartum are immense, and they can profoundly impact your well-being. These shifts often involve multiple factors, including:

  • Nutritional Depletion: Pregnancy and breastfeeding place extraordinary demands on your nutrient reserves. Deficiencies can significantly exacerbate mental health symptoms, and I can help you understand how this may be contributing to what you're experiencing.

  • Birth Trauma: Difficult or traumatic birth experiences can leave deep, lasting emotional scars that need to be acknowledged and addressed with sensitivity and care. I hold space for you to process these experiences.

  • Early Separation of the Mother-Baby Dyad: Disruptions in the crucial early bonding period can have ripple effects for both mother and baby. I can help you understand the impact of these disruptions and support you in fostering connection

  • Breastfeeding Challenges: Physical and emotional difficulties with breastfeeding can contribute to significant stress and anxiety. I aim to provide support that goes beyond simple solutions, honoring the complexity of this experience.

  These factors, combined with societal pressures and often unrealistic expectations placed on mothers, can indeed create a "perfect storm" for postpartum anxiety and depression. But I also see your inherent strength and resilience. I'm here to offer a guiding perspective, to help you understand this complex interplay, and to support you in finding your own path to healing and wholeness.

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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 often feels like a whirlwind of sleepless nights, forgotten showers, and overwhelming emotions—a time when you may feel deeply unseen. I'm here to offer a safe and supportive space, and a clear perspective to help you:

  • Gain personalized understanding of your postpartum anxiety and depression.

  • Address the core imbalances, including nutritional depletion, birth trauma, and breastfeeding challenges.

  • Reclaim your motherly intuition and rediscover ease in your role.

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

  • Heal from past trauma and move forward with renewed strength.

  • Cultivate nervous system regulation for greater stability and resilience.

  • Learn to advocate for your needs with confidence and clarity.

I see the potential for profound healing and transformation within you, even amidst the chaos of new motherhood. Together, we can shift the narrative around postpartum struggles and create a path towards a more peaceful and fulfilling experience.

If you feel seen by this approach and are ready to explore how we can work together, I invite you to reach out for a consultation.

Motherhood cracked me open. It shattered old identities, forced a radical reprioritization, and exposed the profound mismatch between societal expectations and the very real, biological needs of both mother and baby. In that raw vulnerability, I found a strength I never knew I had – a strength born not of perfection, but of embracing the messy, unpredictable truth of this transformative time.

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.