Prenatal and Postpartum Anxiety Counseling
If you can’t stop worrying, if you’re feeling jumpy and tense, or struggling to relax, rest, and enjoy your life, you may be experiencing prenatal or postpartum anxiety.
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Anxiety is our bodies’ built-in alarm system. It’s what keeps us safe by alerting us to threats. When we are going through something new and potentially scary - like pregnancy and postpartum! - it’s normal for that alarm system to become activated. But sometimes the “on” button gets stuck, making everything feel like a threat. When that happens, we can become irritable and short-fused. It can feel like you’re always fighting to keep the sense of doom at bay, and all of that is exhausting.
Together, we can (re)find ease, peace and enjoyment in your life.
Through therapy, I can help your bodies and mind re-learn to differentiate between safety and danger so that we can turn down that sense of fear and worry back to an appropriate and helpful level. I can help you develop anxiety coping strategies, and address underlying issues that may be contributing to your anxiety, so that you can (re)find ease, peace, and enjoyment in your life.
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If you’re ready for a free consultation to see if we are a good fit, send me an email. I’ll ask you about your main challenges and your hopes for therapy, and explain a little bit more about how I work. Then we can figure out if online or in-person appointments will be best for you, and how often (e.g. weekly or bi-weekly).
