Maternal Mental Health Therapy for Florida Women
Pregnancy, postpartum, and fertility challenges are among the most emotionally intense transitions an adult can navigate. The perinatal period reshapes identity, body, relationships, and daily life — sometimes gradually, sometimes overnight. Whether you're facing fertility challenges, moving through pregnancy, adjusting to postpartum, or grieving a pregnancy loss, the experiences that arrive during this period are often more complex than the cultural narrative around motherhood allows.
The pressure to appear grateful, capable, and fine can make it harder to name what's actually happening — and harder to get the level of support that would help.
Who This Work Is For
I work with women across the perinatal spectrum: fertility challenges (including primary and secondary infertility), pregnancy, postpartum recovery, pregnancy loss, and the longer identity shift of new motherhood. You may recognize yourself in some of the following:
Fertility
- Grief, loss, and helplessness around difficulty conceiving
- Anxiety and hypervigilance around cycles, treatments, and outcomes
- Strain on your relationship and sense of self
- Pregnancy loss and the grief that follows
- Isolation — feeling like no one around you understands
Pregnancy
- Anxiety about the health of your baby or your ability to parent
- Depression or emotional numbness during pregnancy
- Fear of childbirth
- Identity shifts and uncertainty about what's coming
- Relationship changes and increased stress
Postpartum
- Persistent sadness, emptiness, or hopelessness after delivery
- Anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or feeling constantly on edge
- Difficulty bonding with your baby
- Feeling like you've lost yourself entirely
- Guilt about not feeling the way you expected to feel
- The aftermath of a traumatic birth
- Postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, or postpartum OCD
Understanding Perinatal Mood Disorders
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) are a group of conditions that can emerge during pregnancy or in the year following birth — including postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD, and birth trauma. They are distinct from the transient "baby blues" that typically resolve within two weeks of delivery. PMADs affect roughly one in five women, and they remain under-diagnosed and under-treated — often because women assume what they're experiencing is normal, or because they worry that naming it will be interpreted as ingratitude. Naming it is the first step toward treating it.
How I work
Sessions are structured and skills-based, drawing from CBT, DBT, mindfulness practices, and evidence-based perinatal mental health protocols. The specific approach depends on where you are — fertility treatment carries different clinical concerns than the third trimester, which carries different concerns than early postpartum with a newborn.
The work typically addresses several layers: understanding the hormonal, neurological, and psychological dimensions of what you're experiencing; developing skills for managing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or low mood; processing loss, birth trauma, or fertility grief when relevant; and navigating the identity work of becoming a parent — which is its own significant transition regardless of how you arrived at it.
Level of Care
This is outpatient individual therapy at a weekly cadence. If you are experiencing thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, symptoms of postpartum psychosis, or severe suicidal ideation, higher levels of care (including inpatient or partial hospitalization) are more appropriate. I can help you identify those resources and coordinate care if needed.
Insurance And Access
I am in-network with Optum, UnitedHealthcare and affiliated plans (Oscar, Oxford, UMR, Harvard Pilgrim, GEHA, Surest, All Savers, UHCSR), Aetna, and Cigna. Private pay is available. Benefits verification is completed at no cost before your first session.
Serving Clients Across Florida
Sessions are conducted virtually, which means maternal mental health care is accessible from anywhere in Florida — including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, and Jacksonville. For new mothers, virtual sessions also matter practically: therapy from home, without arranging childcare or leaving a newborn, is often the difference between getting care and putting it off indefinitely.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if what I'm experiencing is postpartum depression versus normal "baby blues"?
Baby blues typically resolve within two weeks of delivery and don't significantly interfere with daily functioning. If low mood, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or emotional numbness persist beyond two weeks or feel disproportionate to what you can manage, it's worth having the conversation with a clinician.
Can I start therapy during pregnancy?
Yes. Beginning therapy during pregnancy can be particularly valuable — both for addressing what you're experiencing then and for building the clinical relationship before postpartum.
Do you work with women going through fertility treatment (IVF, IUI)?
Yes. Fertility treatment carries a distinct emotional and psychological load, and therapy during treatment is often part of what makes the process sustainable.
Can you help after a pregnancy loss?
Yes. Pregnancy loss — including miscarriage, stillbirth, and terminations for medical reasons — is one of the specific areas of maternal mental health I treat.
Scheduling a Consultion
If pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, or the transition into motherhood has brought you here, a free 15-minute consultation is the most reliable way to know whether this practice is the right fit.
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