Pregnancy, Postpartum & Motherhood

Support through the changes that come with becoming a mother.

Pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood can bring profound changes to your body, emotions, relationships, identity, and everyday life. Even when becoming a mother is something you've wanted, the transition can be complicated, overwhelming, and different from what you expected.

There can be a lot of pressure to feel grateful, happy, or fulfilled during pregnancy and motherhood. When your actual experience doesn't fully match those expectations, it can be difficult to know where to put the feelings that come with it.

You can love your child and still struggle.

You can be grateful and still feel exhausted.

You can be a good mother and still need support.

Therapy can help you make room for the full experience without judgment or guilt to process what you're experiencing, adjust to the changes around you, and care for yourself while you're caring for everyone else.

The Transition Into Motherhood

There isn't one way to experience pregnancy or motherhood. You may feel excited and overwhelmed at the same time. You may love being a mom while also missing parts of your life before motherhood. Or you may find yourself struggling in ways you didn't expect.

Therapy can support you through experiences such as:

• Pregnancy & prenatal anxiety: Navigating uncertainty, changing expectations, identity shifts, or worries about pregnancy and becoming a parent.

• Birth experiences & trauma: Processing a difficult, unexpected, or traumatic birth experience and the emotions that may continue afterward.

• Postpartum adjustment: Navigating emotional changes, overwhelm, sleep deprivation, changes in routine, and the adjustment to caring for a baby.

• Postpartum anxiety & depression: Working through persistent worry, sadness, irritability, guilt, or feeling disconnected from yourself or your experience of motherhood.

• Identity & self-esteem: Making sense of how motherhood has changed your identity, priorities, relationships, and sense of self.

• The mental load of motherhood: Managing the constant planning, remembering, anticipating, and responsibility that can make it difficult to ever feel “off duty.”

When ADHD Meets Motherhood

Motherhood can place enormous demands on the very skills that ADHD can make more difficult.

Keeping track of appointments, anticipating your child's needs, managing routines, remembering endless details, shifting between tasks, regulating emotions, and carrying the mental load of a family can be exhausting for anyone—and may feel especially challenging when ADHD is part of the picture.

You may find yourself wondering why something that seems to come naturally to other mothers requires so much effort from you.

Therapy can help you understand the intersection of ADHD, motherhood, emotional regulation, and executive functioning while finding strategies that work for your actual life.

Motherhood doesn't have to become another place where you measure yourself against what you think you “should” be able to do.

Finding Yourself in Motherhood

Motherhood can change your sense of who you are.

You may be navigating:

• Feeling like your needs have moved to the bottom of the list

• Guilt when taking time for yourself

• Difficulty setting boundaries with family or others

• Changes in your relationship with your partner

• Feeling disconnected from your identity outside of motherhood

• Pressure to be the “perfect” mother

• Grief for your life, body, relationships, or independence before becoming a parent

• Trying to balance motherhood with work, relationships, and other responsibilities

Therapy can offer a space where you get to be more than a mother for a moment: a place to explore what you need, what has changed, and who you are becoming.