Having a baby is amazing. And there is SO MUCH that happens to YOU - the new parent.

Perinatal mental health symptoms are real - excessive worry, fear, overwhelm, OCD like behaviors, grief for your former life, insomnia, and feeling isolated.

This is all happening while you have just given birth and been handed the most high-stakes responsibility of your life, your vulnerable infant.

You are experiencing the biggest change in your life in a very short time.

There is a term for all the changes that occur in a woman when she has a baby -Matrescence. It is the profound psychological, biological and emotional changes that occur when becoming a mother (Patrescence is also a term for new fathers).

Matrescence is likened to other major shifts across the lifespan like adolescence or menopause.

We need to start supporting new parents and treating this time as the transformative life event that it is. I am here to help you learn ways to manage your symptoms and integrate your new role of mother into the person you are becoming.