Transition to Motherhood

Supporting women through their reproductive journey from conception to motherhood.

ONLINE COUNSELING THROUGHOUT:

  • Washington DC

  • Virginia

  • Pennsylvania

You’ve never wanted to get something right more in your life.

From the outside looking in, you have it all together. You manage the meals, homework and family photos seamlessly. Inside you constantly find yourself consumed with guilt that you should be doing more, should be doing things differently. Your inner critic is your constant companion and you find yourself becoming harder and harder on yourself as you struggle to juggle more and more. You want help but feel conflicted when it is offered and wonder if it is just easier to do things yourself.

You feel a desperate sense of urgency to get it together before your kids can remember you snapping, losing patience and dealing with feeling overwhelmed.

 You spend so much time in your head, overthinking whether you are making the right decisions, beating yourself up that you should be doing things better and second-guessing your choices.

Before you became a mother, you had clear ideas of how you would parent, how you and your partner would work together and finally felt ready to delve into this exciting next chapter of motherhood but it is not going exactly the way you envisioned. You have a sense that your past is affecting your parenting – that childhood experiences are influencing the mother you are trying to be and you want to understand how theses pieces are connected so you can be the mother you always dreamed of being.

You’re in the right place
if you’re ready to:

  • Get off the roller-coaster of constantly going from a calm, regulated momto snapping and yelling at your kids.

  • Feel in control of your emotions instead of constantly feeling reactive to circumstances.

  • Halt the anxious thought patterns that leave you second-guessing yourself.

  • Develop a kinder inner voice towards yourself.

  • Start learning how to create the support you need rather than feeling alone in managing it all.

  • Feel connected with your partner on parenting rather than constantly arguing.

  • Be more present with your kids and confident in yourself as a mother.

  • Regain a sense of yourself as a person outside of your role as a parent.

How I can help

You scroll through social media and feel like everyone has this stage of life figured out
except you.

You can feel supported and heard for all the conflicting things you are thinking and feeling in this transitional time.

Therapy for transitioning to motherhood creates a nonjudgmental and open space for women to share the hopes, expectations, fears and disappointments that can arise during their reproductive journey and transition to motherhood.

This is a place to be honest about what you had expected and what you are actually experiencing during this season.

We all come to motherhood with unconscious and conscious visions of what we will be like, what our fertility journey will be like, how our partners will respond and how our children will be and it can be destabilizing when things do not shake out as planned.

Using evidence-based strategies from my advanced training in perinatal mental health, I can help you navigate the decision whether or not to have a child, fertility challenges, traumatic birth, postpartum anxiety/depression, miscarriage and transition to parenting and coparenting challenges, helping you feel more supported and equipped during this time.

My hope is that through therapy you will be able to gain validation for the experiences you have had, challenge coping strategies that are no longer serving you and transform into the mother you desire to be.

You can feel at peace even when things aren’t going according to plan.

I can help you get there.