Pregnancy & Postpartum Therapy in Los Angeles

Pregnancy and new motherhood can be filled with excitement, love, and anticipation—but they can also bring emotions and challenges you never expected.

You may be wondering why you're so anxious during pregnancy, feeling overwhelmed after having your baby, struggling to adjust to your new role, or wondering why you don't feel the way you thought you would.

Therapy can give you a space to slow down, make sense of what you're experiencing, and receive support without judgment.

Therapy During Pregnancy

Pregnancy can bring significant physical and emotional changes. You may experience anxiety about the pregnancy or birth, worries about becoming a parent, changes in your relationships, or uncertainty about how motherhood will change your life.

You don't have to wait until after your baby arrives to seek support. Therapy during pregnancy can help you process your emotions, develop coping strategies, strengthen your support system, and prepare emotionally for the transition to motherhood.

Postpartum Therapy for New Moms

The postpartum period can look very different from what you imagined.

You may love your baby deeply while also feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, sad, disconnected, or unlike yourself. You may be struggling with the demands of caring for a baby while trying to adjust to changes in your identity, relationships, body, work, and daily life.

Therapy can provide a supportive space to process these changes and help you feel more grounded and connected to yourself.

Postpartum Anxiety

Postpartum anxiety can involve constant worry, racing thoughts, difficulty relaxing, feeling on edge, or fears that something bad will happen to your baby.

If your thoughts feel difficult to turn off or you're spending much of your day worrying, therapy can help you understand the patterns contributing to your anxiety and develop practical ways to cope.

Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression can look different for everyone. You may feel persistently sad, emotionally numb, irritable, disconnected, hopeless, or unlike yourself.

You don't have to be completely overwhelmed to deserve support. Therapy can provide a safe place to talk openly about what you're experiencing and work toward feeling more like yourself again.

Adjusting to Motherhood

Becoming a mother can change your sense of identity in ways that are difficult to explain.

You may be asking:

• Who am I now?

• Why don't I feel like myself?

• How do I balance being a mom with being me?

• Why am I struggling when I wanted this so badly?

• How have my relationships changed?

• How do I find time for myself without feeling guilty?

These questions are a normal part of a major life transition. Therapy can help you explore your changing identity, relationships, expectations, and sense of self as you enter this new chapter.

You Don't Have to Do It Alone

Whether you're pregnant, newly postpartum, or further into motherhood and still struggling to feel like yourself, therapy can give you a place to feel supported and understood.

I offer secure tele-health therapy throughout California and provide a warm, collaborative space where you can talk honestly about what you're experiencing.