MOST OF US ENTER IN TO PARENTHOOD WITH THE HOPE OF EXPERIENCING PURE JOY GAZING IN TO YOUR BABY’S EYES. NO ONE PREPARES YOU FOR THE DEVASTATION THAT CAN COME WHEN THE JOY ISN’T THERE. WHEN INSTEAD, THE JOY IS REPLACED BY NUMBNESS, WORRY, OR EVEN SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.

If you are experiencing the following symptoms during pregnancy or 4-6 weeks following birth, you may be enduring perinatal depression or anxiety:

• Excessive worry

• Insomnia

• Numbness

• Hopelessness

• Lack of connection with baby

• Irritability

• Loss of appetite

• Feeling like a ‘bad’ parent

• Extreme exhaustion

• Mood swings

• Crying or teariness

• Overwhelm

• Difficulty concentrating

If these symptoms feel familiar, you are not alone. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are the leading complication following pregnancy. Therapy with a professional trained in treating perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, can help you move through the distress in order to feel the joy in parenthood you might have hoped for.

No one tells you that parenthood can drudge up all the terrible experiences from your past. Family trauma? Yep. The feeling the world isn’t safe? Big time. Losing your old self and your body completely changing? You bet.

Your relationship with your partner may change as well. Oh, and if your birth experience didn’t go according to plan, it’s quite possible you developed PTSD.

By focusing only on the joyous aspects of parenthood, we leave parents ill prepared for the challenges we may face during motherhood. This sets us up for postpartum depression, anxiety, and the struggle to reconcile the past while looking towards the future as a mother.

What if all new parents were encouraged to attend therapy? There is no better space to grieve the loss of your old self while embracing the new life ahead. While those around you want to hold the baby, you too, deserve to feel held.

Whether you, or those around you, believe you may be experiencing a perinatal mood disorder or you are seeking a therapist to help you through the adjustment to motherhood--we can help.

INFERTILITY & PREGNANCY LOSS

The journey to parenthood can be a struggle. Infertility and pregnancy loss present us with a special kind of grief that others may not recognize unless they have experienced it themselves. Whether you're struggling to acknowledge and heal from infertility struggles or you have experienced pregnancy loss at any stage of pregnancy, we want to help you confront, acknowledge, and thrive through your grief. In our society, pregnancy loss is often not spoken of, or brushed off. The pain and suffering you have experienced through infertility or pregnancy loss deserves to be acknowledged. The pain and grief is very real and can be as powerful as any grief that is normalized within our culture.

They say a child is your own heart beating outside your body, but this begins even with the hope of a child. No one should go through infertility or pregnancy loss alone and no one should feel the need to stay silent through their grief. We are here to hold your story.

We are excited to offer telehealth services to parents throughout Texas.