Perinatal Mental Health

I treat people who are managing their mental health and are also thinking about starting a family, are currently pregnant, or are postpartum.

Pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the stress around fertility challenges are some of the most physically and emotionally complex experiences a person can move through. You are navigating enormous changes in your body, your identity, and your relationships, often while also managing a mental health condition, a medication regimen, or a previous experience that left a mark.

You deserve a provider who can understand all of that with clinical expertise and gentle compassion. I am here to support you.

Ways I Can Support You:

  • New onset or preexisting mental health diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, trauma-related disorders, ADHD, and OCD, during the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum periods.

  • Collaborative management of your medications during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, including reviewing your current regimen and helping you make informed decisions that honor your values and your experience in your body

  • The transition into parenthood, including identity shifts, relationship changes, and the physical and mental load of caregiving in the postpartum period

  • Supportive care processing grief, pregnancy loss, perinatal trauma, & fertility-related stress and anxiety

Perinatal mental health care requires a provider who understands not just your diagnosis, but the specific biological, hormonal, and relational landscape you are moving through.

The tools I use are the same ones I bring to all of my patients, applied with the particular care and depth of knowledge that perinatal psychiatry and perinatal medication management require.