Perinatal support
Perinatal Counseling Washington
In-network provider with Premera, Aetna, & United healthcare (UHC)
Rates: $175 per session · $190 intake session
50-minute perinatal counseling sessions
Free 15-minute phone consultation
How perinatal support in Washington works
What to expect
The path to parenthood is one of the most significant identity transitions a person can move through and incidentally, one of the least prepared for.
We're told what to expect from our bodies. We're given lists and timelines and milestones. What we're rarely told is that becoming a parent can feel like losing yourself before you’ve had a chance to find out who you’re becoming. That the love can be enormous and the grief can be real at the same time. That you can be grateful and overwhelmed and lonely in the same breath, and that none of that makes you a bad parent.
It makes you human. And it makes sense to want support.
Therapy for fertility, pregnancy, postpartum and new parenthood.
Conception ambivalence
Intrusive thinking
Relationship strain in new parenthood
Identity shifts in parenthood
Postpartum depression and overwhelm
Birth trauma
Pregnancy and postpartum anxiety
Fertility and reproductive stress
Perinatal support is not one size fits all, but these are a few areas I specialize in:
Areas of focus
Women’s health
Matrescence
You are trying to conceive and the emotional weight of that process has become harder to carry than you expected.
You are pregnant and feel more anxious, disconnected, or conflicted than you thought you would.
You have recently given birth and something feels off - not just tired, but genuinely unlike yourself.
You are deep in the postpartum period and still waiting to feel like you again.
You love your child and you are also grieving something - your old life, your old self, a birth experience that didn’t go the way you hoped.
You are a non-birthing parent navigating your own version of this transition, and feeling like there isn’t much space for what you’re carrying.
You are not in crisis - but you know you don’t want to keep doing this alone.
Reach out through my contact form and share a bit about what brings you in. I’ll be in touch with next steps and options for moving forward.
01. Let's connect
We’ll talk through what feels most present for you, I’ll share a little about how I work, and we’ll figure out together whether and how to move forward.
02. Free 15-minute phone consultation
We’ll talk about what feels most present for you, what you’re hoping for, and whether working together feels like a good fit.
03. Intake session
We start with what’s taking up the most space and build from there. The process is collaborative, and it moves at your pace.
04. Ongoing counseling sessions
Frequently asked questions
Perinatal refers to the full period surrounding pregnancy and birth - from the time you begin trying to conceive through the postpartum period and into early parenthood.
My perinatal mental health counseling covers fertility and reproductive stress, pregnancy, postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, and the identity shifts that come with becoming a parent. If you’re not sure whether what you’re experiencing falls within this scope, reach out and we’ll talk through it.
Perinatal mental health sits at the intersection of identity, relationship, and profound biological change. That's why I bring a relational, attachment-based lens to this work - which means I am not just tracking your symptoms, I am paying attention to who you are inside this experience, and who you are becoming through it.
I offer care that is culturally responsive - which means I understand that the perinatal experience does not happen in a vacuum. It happens inside a family system, a cultural context, a set of expectations about what a good mother looks like. Those layers matter, and they are welcome here.
I work with both birthing and non-birthing individuals, and I hold space for the full complexity of this season - including ambivalence, identity shifts, and the parts of new parenthood that are hard to say out loud.
I am a certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C), which reflects a specialized level of training in the clinical realities of the perinatal period - from prenatal anxiety to postpartum depression to birth trauma and beyond.
I understand how hard it can be to carve out uninterrupted time in the postpartum period. While our sessions are most useful when you have some space to yourself, I never want logistics to be the reason you don’t access support during such a critical season. If your baby needs to be present on occasion, we’ll make it work.
Yes. The transition into parenthood affects the whole family system, and non-birthing individuals are often navigating their own significant emotional experience without much space to process it. You are welcome here too.
PMH-C stands for Perinatal Mental Health Certified - a specialized certification that reflects advanced training in the clinical realities of the perinatal period, including prenatal anxiety, postpartum depression, birth trauma, pregnancy loss, and the psychological experience of the transition into parenthood. It means this isn’t just an area of interest for me - it’s an area of dedicated clinical focus.
