Motherhood is a transformative experience that comes with many adjustments. Perhaps, you've experienced irrational thinking, feelings of sadness, mood swings, excessive worry, fear, feelings of inadequacy, and or isolation. 

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You do not need to suffer in silence or feel ashamed for what you are feeling or thinking. Therapy can help you find balance, learn how to ask for support, and make sense of irrational thoughts. Each pregnancy is different, whether you are a first time mother or not. Let's work together to help you find balance and get you resourced. 

Trauma refers to life experiences that may have been on going from childhood to adulthood. These life experiences may consists of physical harm, abuse, or neglect.

 

Toxic stress can impact your brain, physical health, ability to form healthy relationships, or difficulty trusting others. These responses may have been adaptive as a youth; however, they may keep you feeling hypervigilant, on edge, angry, depressed, or anxious. 

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With therapy you can learn skills to help reduce your reactive responses of constantly being on alert and build a connection with pleasant feelings. 

Depression may be commonly experienced on certain occasions. Some people may experience it daily preventing them from being able to show up in their every day lives. Depression may look life crying spells, lack of motivation, low self-esteem, constantly sleeping, or insomnia. 

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Therapy can help you learn how find relief to show up, to explore beliefs or patterns that may be keeping you stuck.

 

With treatment, you may learn to explore your relationship with self to experience joy. 

Anxiety is excessive worry to stressful situations. The worry may be overwhelming happening daily, taking over your mental space, and manifesting in bodily sensations like sweating, panic, or change in the rhythm of your breath. Does this sound familiar? Some worry is helpful as it can motivate us or let us know something is important. 

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If you notice you are losing sleep, you are freaking out, irritable, unable to relax, avoidant of situations, then your anxiety may be unhelpful. 

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Together we can explore mediation, breathing, thought replacement, understanding your irrational thoughts to help you feel in control.