Pregnancy & Postpartum Support
Let's Walk Together Step by Step - Moment by Moment
Navigating pregnancy and postpartum are times of enormous transformation—physically, emotionally, and mentally. It is one of the most wild times in our lifes where our bodies, worlds, and families grow. It can be a challenging and confusing time.
Whether you’re navigating unexpected emotions during pregnancy, health changes during and after pregnancy, or adjusting to life after birth. You may feel overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, sleep deprived, and not quite like yourself. Sometimes we can feel disconnected and a whole new host of thoughts, feelings, and sensations occur. And yet, it's often during these times that we’re told to just “push through” or "be grateful". It can feel dismissing and often times birthing parents become unseen.
We are here to offer a different message one that welcomes all thoughts, feelings, expectations, realities.
It's okay to not be okay - and support is here!
Pregnancy Support
A Space for What You're Really Feeling at Any Stage
Pregnancy is not always a blissful or a glowing experience. It can draw out new fears, new opinions and views about one's own body, shifting dynamics in our personal relationships, and identity questions as we grow into the parent role. Whether you are a mother to be, a father to be or a parent, guardian, surrogate, your experience matters.
You might feel like your are carrying the weight of a previous losses, struggling with past family experiences, new anxieties, or feeling disconnected from your changing body.
Here at Mindful Steps Therapy, you'll find a space to:
- Talk honestly, and openly where all thoughts and feelings are held without judgment
- We process through a variety of evidence-based approaches that are safe for pregnancy
- Navigating those identity shifts, new thoughts and feelings surrounding your growing family
- Supporting your physical, emotional and inner world preparing for the labour and delivery
We seek to guard against and provide a holistic approach that is trauma-informed in pregnancy.
While we can support in creating birthing plans and helping you advocate for your needs, our healthcare system often fails us or things happen. We are here to connect and support you to prepare to respond towards this new change and transformation of the body.
Being a Mother, Father and Parent is not Martyrdom...
Being a parent doesn't mean neglecting yourself.
You matter to!
If you are struggling with the mental load of being a parent and struggling to have self-care moments and restfulness, please reach out.
Postpartum Care
Beyond the "Fourth Trimester"
Here for the Whole Journey
Sometimes when we reach the end of our pregnancy and after birth a whole new experience occurs. The postpartum period is one that each and every person experiences. It's unique, messy, uncertain, new, and even chaotic. The changes we knew we were always going to experience but sometimes don't pan out or happen the way we thought or planned for it to be.
Postpartum Care in therapy looks like:
- Bringing your baby into therapy nurturing and processing through attunement and co-regulation
- Exploring the experiences of birthing, adjusting towards the new changes and making room for more change
- Managing and supporting all the emotions you experience
- Navigating postpartum anxiety, depression and trauma
You are not alone in this, and you never have to walk it alone.
We’re here to help you:
- Process postpartum depression, anxiety, or birth trauma
- Adjust to your new identity and role
- Explore attachment and bonding struggles
- Reconnect with your body and self-compassion
- Feel less alone in the emotional highs and lows of early parenthood
- Approaching with cultural-sensitivity and inclusivity
Therapy Can Be Your Anchor
A space for your to explore together and a space just for you!
You don't need to have everything figured out to reach out.
Even if its just a feeling or sense that something isn't right. We are here to listen and offer a non-judgemental space.
Whether you’re pregnant, newly postpartum, or months into parenting and still struggling, therapy can offer grounding, clarity, and relief. This is a space to be honest, messy, vulnerable—and deeply supported.
