Emotional Support for the Parenting Years

Motherhood evokes profound joy — and profound challenge. The emotional demands of raising children can stir up anxiety, anger, ambivalence, and what I call the materal escape fantasy. At times, real grief surfaces, even as the daily tasks of caregiving continue.

These feelings are not signs of failure. They are signs that you are deeply engaged in a life-changing, identity-shaping experience.

While parenting can feel overwhelming and messy, it also holds the potential for deep personal growth, humility, generational healing, and hard-won wisdom.

Over the past twenty years of working with mothers, I’ve come to believe this: compassion is often the answer to our hardest questions.

I help mothers develop self-compassion by making sense of the physiological, psychological, and environmental changes that shape this stage of life. When you understand what’s happening beneath the surface, the emotional waves become easier to ride.

In therapy, one of our primary goals is to reconnect you with your inner strength and resilience — resources that will serve you not only in parenting, but in all of your relationships throughout life.

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