Therapy for Current / Aspiring / Undecided Moms and Couples
I work with individuals and couples anywhere along their (potential or actualized) parenthood journey, from people deciding whether or not to have children all the way through those navigating relationships with their adult children. Common topics in my practice include:
- Struggling with the transition to motherhood/parenthood
- Changing relationship dynamics
- Working motherhood
- Fertility challenges
- Identity in motherhood
- Mom rage
- Shame
- Anxiety
I truly love helping women navigate the vicissitudes of motherhood. I have a particular interest in working with those left swirling by the ambivalence and change that comes with motherhood, and who are having difficulty coming to terms with shifts in identity, lifestyle, and relationships postpartum. You deserve to know that your experience - from amazing to shitty - is normal. And to learn from what your motherhood experience is revealing to you.
Individual Therapy for Women
The majority of my work focuses on women who find themselves being torn between who they have been, and who they are becoming. From birth, we are inundated with innumerable cultural, societal and familial messages about how to be acceptable (soft, thin, quiet, funny but not crass, serious, bookish, pure, virginal, etc.). We often come to sense - sometimes over time, sometimes all at once - that there may be some hidden parts of ourselves trying to cut through the noise.
Support Groups for New and New-ish Moms
Motherhood is a beautiful, messy, chaos-inducing journey, and it often activates parts of ourselves that we never expected - some that we love, some that we come to accept, and some (or many) that we are ashamed to admit exist. I run an 8-week peer support group as a safe, trusting space for moms to explore the complex emotions around the seismic shifts in their lives since becoming mothers. Together, mothers hold space for each other to speak aloud the self-doubt, newfound power, anger/“mom rage," tenderness, and burden of commitment that is parenthood. We also explore our old narratives surrounding who we thought we would be/what we thought we wanted - and how those things stack up to what we know now.
Lecturing Medical Professionals on Postpartum Depression and Baby Blues
A Mother’s Story: Workshops on Maternal Identity
In this storytelling workshop, I use mythological and fairy tale archetypes to acknowledge, explore and embrace the darker, more challenging truths about identity and motherhood.
This two-hour workshop allows members to learn about the journeys of fictional characters whose struggles mirror real-world, universal maternal experiences. Stories and discussions are interspersed with in-workshop individual journaling prompts and group discussion to enhance a self-reflective experience.
