Perinatal Therapy

Support for Prenatal and Postnatal Parents

Using a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy framework and incorporating tools from mindfulness-based, compassion-focused, and parent-infant attachment approaches, psychotherapy during the perinatal period can be an effective treatment for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and support for challenges around:

• Changing identity

• Checking expectations with a new reality

• Reducing perfectionism and comparison

• Improving communication and conflict resolution

• Working through rage and its vulnerable underlying feelings

• Resolving grief and loss

• Creating connections and a support network

• Transforming depression and anxiety