Rediscover balance. Break the cycle.

Therapy for modern parents and cycle-breakers navigating the perinatal season and beyond.

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Parenthood has a way of cracking open your identity, your partnerships, and old family patterns all at once. Whether you are navigating pregnancy, the heavy fog of postpartum, a major transition in your child’s life, or the tenderness of launching them into new stages, this is a space to slow down and make sense of what is changing within you.

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You’re the parent, but you need space to process, too.

I’m here for you.

I work with parents of all genders who want to break cycles without losing themselves in the process. Together, we will look at attachment, nervous system patterns, and the deeply held beliefs that get activated when parenting, partnership, and identity collide.

This is dedicated space for the parts of you that are exhausted from holding it all together. Therapy with me goes deeper than standard advice.

How I can help

Therapy to help you break the cycle—and find yourself again.

  • You may be carrying grief, rage, guilt, fear, pressure, or disconnection.

  • You may be trying to parent differently than you were parented.

  • You may be recovering from a birth experience that still lives in your body.

  • You may feel like YOU are disappearing inside the role.

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Here’s what we’ll do together

Therapy can help you heal your story.

You spend all day showing up for your kids. This is the space you get to show up for yourself.

Parenting brings our own wounds to the surface, sometimes in ways that catch us off guard. You aren't here to simply survive parenthood. You want so badly for your kids to have a different experience than you had.

Together, we will go to the parts of your story that still need attention. The fact that those wounds are still there doesn't mean anything is wrong with you. It means you are human, and the younger parts of yourself need attention, as well.

You will leave realigned with who you are. You will feel less activated by your kids, and you will heal the younger, wounded versions of yourself along the way.

What we’ll work on

You’ll walk away with —

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Ability to parent from your own values, not those you inherited.

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Release of emotion or trauma that has been stored in your body, helping you feel relief and physically lighter.

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Clarity on your story and how it shows up today, with the ability to re-parent yourself as needed.

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Reclamation of a sense of self, amidst the never ending responsibilities.

Questions? I’ve got answers.

Frequently asked questions —

  • Therapy for parents provides a focused space to address generational patterns, perinatal challenges, and modern parenting stress—without the need for long-term, weekly commitments. It helps high-functioning parents regulate their nervous systems, heal from birth trauma or PMADs, and parent from their core values rather than cultural pressure or family-of-origin defaults. By using modalities like Brainspotting and somatic work, we create efficient breakthroughs that you can easily integrate into your daily life.

  • Yes—therapy specifically targets the inherited patterns that show up in your daily reactions, like snapping at your kids the exact same way you were parented. We use Internal Family Systems (IFS) and attachment-based work to heal those roots. This allows you to respond from a place of clarity and authentic values rather than autopilot, creating lasting change across generations for parents of all genders and family structures.

  • New parenthood often brings massive identity shifts, changing roles, and a multitude of new responsibilities that can leave you feeling disconnected from yourself and your partner. Therapy helps you reclaim your sense of self using nervous system regulation tools and integrating the various parts of who you are. This eases the overwhelm so that parenting feels enjoyable, not all-consuming—whether you are currently pregnant or deep in postpartum.

  • Absolutely. PMADs—like postpartum anxiety or depression—can disrupt your sleep, steal your joy, and impact your connection to your family long after birth. We use Brainspotting and nervous system regulation to process the trauma and stress physically stuck in your body, restoring your capacity for true presence. This approach goes far beyond traditional talk therapy to offer deep, embodied relief.

Change is possible.

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