Perinatal & Parent Support
Walnut Creek and throughout California
Parenthood changes everything. Your body, your identity, your relationship, your sense of time, your capacity for patience, your ability to finish a thought. Some of those changes are beautiful. Some of them are brutal. Most of them are both at the same time.
I work with people at every stage of the parenting journey. Before it starts, in the thick of it, and years down the road when you're still carrying the weight of it.
What brings parents in
You're trying to conceive and it's consuming you.
The monthly cycle of hope and grief. The pressure on your relationship. The feeling that your body is failing you. The isolation of watching everyone else's announcements while you wait for yours.
You're pregnant and anxious about what's coming.
Not the glowing, excited version of pregnancy you were promised. The intrusive thoughts, the health anxiety, the fear that you're already doing it wrong before the baby is even here.
You're postpartum and something feels off.
Maybe it's rage you didn't expect. Anxiety that won't quiet down. Intrusive thoughts that terrify you. A sadness that doesn't match how grateful you think you're supposed to feel. This is more common than anyone talks about, and it's treatable.
You've lost yourself in the role.
You love your kids. You chose this life. And you have no idea who you are outside of it anymore. The person you were before feels like a stranger and nobody around you seems to understand why that's painful.
Your relationship is suffering.
You're coparenting but not connecting. The mental load is crushing and unevenly distributed. Sex feels like another item on the to-do list. You miss your partner but you're too exhausted to do anything about it.
You're deep in the juggle and running on fumes.
Your kids are older now. You survived the early years. But the burnout, the guilt, the constant scheduling, the worry that you're getting it wrong somehow never went away. It just shape-shifted.
You're not sure you want kids, and the pressure is deafening.
Everyone has an opinion. Your family, your partner, your friends who already have them, the clock in the back of your mind. You need a place to sort through what you actually want without someone else's agenda drowning out your own voice.
What to expect from this work
A space where nothing is off limits.
Parenting is full of feelings people don't say out loud. The resentment, the regret, the ambivalence, the rage, the grief for the life you had before. You can say all of it here.
Practical support alongside deeper work.
We'll address what's urgent. The sleep deprivation, the anxiety spirals, the relationship tension. And we'll also make space for the bigger questions about identity, purpose, and what kind of parent and person you want to be.
Someone who gets it.
I'm a mom. I've been in the thick of it. I'm not going to hand you a self-care checklist and send you on your way. This work is real, specific, and designed for people who are doing one of the hardest things a human being can do.