Matrescence and Therapy for Moms in St. Louis
A few things we’re Specialized in
I believe in and employ radical and personalized approaches to mental health that align with village-building, connection and cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
Mothers and Matrescence
Understanding the profound physical, emotional, psychological and social changes that come with Motherhood, and Healing within Maternal Mental Health. Healing trauma related to motherhood, pregnancy, and birth.
Women
Healing from oppressive, patriarchal structures, attachment wounds, and trauma across the lifespan. Relationships, sex and sexuality
LGBTQIA Folx
Identity, questioning, sexuality, empowerment, belonging and healing from oppressive structures
Maternal Mental Health
Empowering Matrescence and Maternal Mental Health
Maternal/mother’s mental health and Matrescence, is now an entire field of study– as it should be! Matrescence refers to PROFOUND changes a woman goes through in becoming and growing as a mother. This is a transition that has been glossed over for centuries.
This includes physically, psychologically, and emotionally starting in pregnancy and through motherhood. Becoming a mother is an entire transitional developmental phase for our whole identity, and it’s time to talk about it!
Please note that this is inclusive of non-birthing parents, non-binary parents or however you identify in parenting or mothering!
Partner and Family InVolved Postpartum Plans
On-site Sessions and Support (Hospital, Home, etc.)
Coaching, text plans, Group Support, Sibling Connective sessions
Maternal Mental Health
Available Support, tailored to your Needs
As a mother, I bring personal understanding and empathy to the struggles parents face. From new motherhood, to the transitive role a parent must employ throughout your child’s growing years, parenting is HARD.
New mothers are largely unsupported, and modern western culture brings additional stressors like isolation, judgment and guilt, difficult career choices and immense financial pressures. With these stressors, post-partum depression and anxiety become all too common. And that doesn’t even cover the identity and role transition struggles! I combine my therapeutic training, my own personal experience and cross-cultural work and studies to offer support, empowerment, and effective solutions.
Areas of Treatment
- Certified in EMDR- Trauma and Complex Trauma
- New motherhood transitions and empowerment
- Postpartum Anxiety and OCD
- Postpartum Depression
- Birth and/or pregnancy trauma
- Generalized Anxiety/Depression
- Parenting issues, relationship stressors
- Motherhood and Parenting identity
- Individual Identity development of the self outside motherhood
- Sex after kids, sexual and gender identity and development across the lifespan
- Burnout
- Parenting and Work decisions, overwhelm, balance
Therapy Options
Individual and Family Therapy Options are 50 minutes, or 80 minute sessions
At times, Mothers’ Groups or Workshops are running, take a look at Current Happenings!
In-home and On-site Psychotherapy is available upon request at schools, homes, resident homes, hospice, hospitals, nursing and senior homes.
EMDR Intensives: EMDR intensives range from 90 minutes to 3 hours. Small breaks can be taken. Intensives are ideal for those wanting to move more quickly through processing in large chunks.
Published Writing on Motherhood
The Pandemic and Maternal Mental Health in the Western World: A Cross-Cultural Assessment with Refugee Mothers for Demeter Press, York University
Motherhood, Art and a Revolution: Chapter 17, Coming into Being by Demeter Press
Women can Love being Moms and still demand Change for Motherwell Magazine
Quarantine, A Still Life for Mothers Always Write
We All Live Here for The Manifest Station
Invisible Motherhood for Medium
Dinosaurs and Mindfulness for Motherly
Breastfeeding is Beautiful: A Photojournal : for Huffington Post
