For new moms, it can be upsetting and frightening to have feelings about motherhood that don’t seem “right.”
For some women, a morning run, a healthy diet and receiving help and support from family and friends are sufficient enough to get through the initial adjustment period. For others, talking to a therapist who specializes in dealing with new motherhood issues can be comforting, relieving and enlightening.
Therapists who have extensive education and training in post-partum disorders understand that hormone changes, personal and family history, and social support are all vital factors in understanding and alleviating postpartum symptoms.
Common postpartum symptoms include:
- Feeling overwhelmed and wondering if you should have become a mother in the first place
- Feeling guilty due to high self-expectations
- Not feeling “bonded” with the baby
- Your thoughts are racing and you can’t quiet your mind
- Feeling empty and numb as if you’re just going through the motions
- Lack of focus and concentration
- Being afraid that if you reach out for help, others will judge your inabilities
- Thoughts of running away or leaving your baby behind
- Being constantly in a state of worry
If one or more of the above symptoms resonates with you, I invite you to contact me today for a free consultation. Together, we’ll find the underlying issues that make you feel disconnected from your baby and create a strategy for moving forward. Contact me today to see how I can help.
Counseling for Mothers:
- Depression and or anxiety in pregnancy
- Postpartum depression and stress
- Intrusive thoughts and feelings in pregnancy and postpartum
- Feeling anxious postpartum
- Adjusting to parenthood
- Exploring additional children
- Processing traumatic birth experiences
- Supportive care for medical complications for mother or infant
- Adjusting to life with a-typical baby or child
- Single parenthood by choice support
- Single parenthood adjustment when not by choice
- Identity and career decision support and exploration
- Building relationship skills
- Improving bonding with infant or child
- Improving coping skills for parenting anxiety
- Building parenting skills
- Identifying new ways of parenting that are different from your upbringing
- Identifying and setting boundaries and limits with others
- Support for secondary labor and deliveries after birth trauma
- Building confidence in your decision making
