Specialized Mental Health Care to support Mood, Reproductive Health, Infertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum experiences.
Perinatal Mental Health
Mental health care for pregnant and postpartum individuals in Maryland and West Virginia
Perinatal Counseling
The transition into parenthood is one of the most profound life changes. Prioritizing your mental health during this time not only supports your own healing, it strengthens your bond with your baby, your relationships, and your long-term well-being.
You deserve care that meets you where you are, honors your story, and helps you find balance through pregnancy and postpartum.
Support During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a time of excitement and anticipation, but it can also bring uncertainty and worry. Perinatal counseling provides a safe, supportive space to help you navigate the many changes that occur during this time. Counseling can support you as you adjust to physical changes and a shifting sense of identity, cope with anxiety about labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery, and manage medical complications or high-risk pregnancies. It can also provide support for those experiencing pregnancy after loss or after fertility treatments, helping you process previous experiences, navigate fears, and prepare emotionally for birth and the transition to parenthood.
Support During Postpartum
The transition into parenthood is profound, bringing with it new roles, shifting identities, and changes that extend far beyond the physical recovery from birth. Many birthing individuals and parents experience matrescence, the emotional, psychological, and social transformation that comes with becoming a parent.
This period often includes sleep deprivation and mood shifts. Some parents experience postpartum depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and/or severe mood disruption. It can also bring complex emotions around feeding, whether breastfeeding, pumping, or formula feeding, along with body image concerns and the adjustment to postpartum physical changes. Postpartum counseling provides a supportive space to process these experiences, explore your evolving identity, and navigate the emotional, relational, and practical challenges of early parenthood.
Whether you are coping with mental health symptoms, adjusting to role transitions, or simply seeking support in this life-changing season, therapy can help you move through it with greater clarity, resilience, and self-compassion.
Birth Trauma & Medical Complications
Not every birth goes as planned. For many, experiences such as emergency cesarean deliveries, unexpected medical complications, NICU stays, or other interventions can feel overwhelming and even traumatic. These moments may leave lasting emotional impacts such as fear, grief, guilt, or a sense of loss around what was hoped for.
Perinatal mental health counseling provides a safe space to process these experiences, reduce feelings of isolation, and begin to heal. Whether you’re navigating recovery after a cesarean, coping with the stress of having a baby in the NICU, or working through the emotional effects of medical emergencies during pregnancy or birth, compassionate support can help you reclaim a sense of strength and connection.
Inclusive Care for All Birthing Individuals
Every family and every postpartum journey looks different. This support is affirming and inclusive for women, LGBTQ+ parents, single parents, and all family structures.