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Counseling services

Care for the perinatal year, and for the rest of life
Our Care is personalized. The first session is for understanding why you are seeking counseling and what you are hoping to accomplish. From there, our therapists draw on evidence-based approaches and matches them to your goals, rather than using one method for every concern.

Perinatal and Postpartum mental health

Perinatal counseling supports people through the emotional and psychological strain of trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum year, as well as infertility and pregnancy loss. Our Therapists hold the PMH-C credential through Postpartum Support International, which requires specialized training, supervised experience with this population, a certification exam, and ongoing education.

The perinatal period here means preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year after delivery, plus fertility treatment and reproductive loss. Sessions are for the person who is pregnant or postpartum, and for partners who are in it with them.

Concerns this work commonly addresses

  • Perinatal and Postpartum anxiety
  • Perinatal and Postpartum depression
  • Perinatal and Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Postpartum Panic disorder
  • Postpartum post-traumatic stress, including birth trauma
  • Infertility and fertility treatment
  • Pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and neonatal loss
  • Identity shifts, the move into parenthood, and strain in the partnership

In Crisis?

If you are in crisis, or if you are having thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, call 988 or go to the nearest emergency room. Outpatient therapy is not a crisis service.

Other counseling services

  • Individual therapy
  • Couples counseling and premarital counseling
  • Counseling for anxiety, including social anxiety
  • Therapy for depression
  • Trauma counseling, including Brainspotting
  • Grief and bereavement counseling
  • Divorce recovery
  • Interpersonal Therapy
  • Conflict resolution
  • Mindfulness-based therapy

Approaches used in session

  • CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused work
  • DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy and coping skills
  • Brainspotting and other trauma-informed interventions
  • Family systems and couples work
  • Gottman Method
  • IFS: Internal Family Systems
  • EFT: Emotionally Focused Therapy
  • Person-centered and strength-based counseling
  • IPT: Interpersonal therapy

How a session works

A typical session is 53-60 minutes. Weekly, Bi-weekly, or monthly scheduling depends on the concern and clinical recommendation. During the first meeting we will map the problem and the goal. Later sessions stay tied to that plan, and the plan can change if life does.

For a couple, the work is structured  with both partners in the room focusing on the relationship. Couples Intensives are available that are 90 minutes long.