If you’re finding it hard to cope emotionally during pregnancy, it doesn’t mean you’re failing. These emotional challenges are part of the journey for many, many people—and support is available. Therapy can provide a valuable opportunity for navigating this stage and I welcome the opportunity to work with you using an approach which values clarity, kindness, and confidence in your new role.
If you’re finding it hard to cope emotionally during pregnancy, it doesn’t mean you’re failing. These emotional challenges are part of the journey for many, many people—and support is available. Therapy can provide a valuable opportunity for navigating this stage and I welcome the opportunity to work with you using an approach which values clarity, kindness, and confidence in your new role.
While treatment can be filled with hope and anticipation, the process can also be fraught with uncertainty and emotional high and lows difficult to navigate.
The clash of demands alongside fertility treatment that are the topic of discussion in therapy.
Consider these questions to decide whether it may be timely to reach out for some assistance with working through what your individual fertility journey.
Becoming a parent or welcoming subsequent children into your family can be a time of significant adjustment. Coping with this adjustment can be extremely difficult, and it may affect your mood, thoughts and interactions with others.
Adjustment difficulties may make you feel anxious, low in mood, and very stressed. You may notice tendencies of wanting to be in control, not wanting to socialise and experience feelings of anger or rage.
The perinatal period, from preconception through to 3 years after birth, is critical time where the mental health of a baby begins, and it is a unique time where women are highly motivated to seek help.
There is a complexity to women’s mental health. In the perinatal period, there are significant hormonal changes, physical body changes, identity changes, role changes, workplace and financial changes and often significant shifts and changes within our social and attachment relationships.
