Absolutely. The two aren't mutually exclusive, even when it feels like they should be. Having postpartum depression and anxiety doesn't mean you don't love your child or that you're not meant to be a parent. They mean something hard is happening that deserves attention, not minimization. What I do here is oriented toward understanding the patterns driving your experience, not just managing the output. That's a different kind of work, and for a lot of people it's the version that actually moves something.

While the specifics depend on what you're bringing in, a few things are broadly consistent. Sessions are conversational, direct, and oriented around understanding what's happening for you: what you're feeling, what's driving it, and what needs to shift. That might involve processing a specific experience — a difficult birth, a loss, a fertility journey that didn't go as expected — or it might involve working through the disorientation of becoming a parent when nothing catastrophic happened but something still feels off. For experiences involving trauma, including birth trauma, pregnancy loss, a challenging fertility process, I'll often use EMDR, which is an evidence-based approach specifically effective for processing distressing experiences that haven't resolved on their own. It's not talk therapy in the traditional sense, and for a lot of people that's exactly what makes it useful. Sessions are fifty minutes, typically weekly to start. Most clients find that the frequency and duration of treatment becomes clearer after the first few sessions, once we have a better sense of what we're working with together.