Online Therapy for Moms in California

Postpartum Depression and Postpartum Anxiety are common struggles after having a baby. Your body has gone through a lot. There are hormonal changes, the physical recovery from childbirth, coupled with sleep deprivation, and having to address the constant needs of a brand new baby.

Therapy will address common pain points in the postpartum time and help you develop a plan to better support yourself and baby. You don’t need to feel alone in this. Support is available!

Your birth experience is often the big start into motherhood. Unfortunately, almost half of mothers report that their birth experience was traumatic.

This trauma can come through in a lot of ways. Many moms report feeling disconnected emotionally, guilt and shame around their body and not being able to birth their child in a way they expected, and heightened emotions, including feeling anxious and on edge.

Therapy, especially EMDR Therapy can be very helpful to process through your birth experience.

Motherhood is a hugely transformative experience. It's easy to "lose" yourself in motherhood. Who you were before kids is different now. It's common to feel a bit lost as you are figuring it out who you are now.

I see you trying to do all the things “right” for your kids and it’s easy to feel like you’re “failing,” to feel guilty and inadequate. This is hard!

Therapy can help you process through past experiences and hurts that may be impacting you today. We’ll also identify how you want to show up, not just as a mom, but as your own person.

Anxiety can show up in many ways and easily take over your life. Constant worrying, thinking of worst-case scenarios, feeling a need to control everything, feeling on edge, etc.

In therapy, I’ll help you develop a deeper understanding of your anxiety and learn better ways to manage it. You’ll learn how to shift out of anxious thoughts and promote a more helpful way of thinking.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy or EMDR is a form of treatment to help process past hurts, distressing, and/or traumatic experiences.

It uses the brain’s natural healing processes to move these “stuck” experiences and help you develop a more adaptive and helpful way to understand yourself.

Many studies have shown that EMDR has helped 84-90% of individuals with a history of trauma, recover in as little as 5 hours of treatment.

Depression can feel like you’re in a fog and it can be hard to see things differently. Everything can feel like it’s just too hard. Sometimes it feels like a dullness, that nothing really matters.

In therapy we’ll work on small steps you can take to start to boost your mood. You’ll work on your thought process and learn healthy coping skills. Over time and with effort, the fog with lift and you will feel like yourself again.

Our body holds onto past traumatic experiences. These memories can show up and express themselves in many different ways, such as anxiety, anger outbursts, people-pleasing tendencies, etc.

In therapy you’ll develop a better understanding of how trauma can affect you, how it shows up in your body, and how you can work on healing your past trauma.