Perinatal Mental Health Counselling

While becoming a parent can bring joy and fulfillment, the changes and stressors that accompany the perinatal period can also have substantial impacts on a person’s mental health, affecting their ability to cope.  The perinatal period can bring heightened experiences of anxiety and depression, sleep depravation, changes to a person’s sense of identity, contribute to role strain and tension in their various relationships, involve parenting stress and burnout, affect a person’s relationship with their body and experiences of grief and loss. If you are experiencing any of these, you are not alone.

Counselling supports can help reduce the sense of isolation and the feeling of overwhelm that many experience. With specialized training in Perinatal Mental Health, and a strong commitment to helping individuals and parents navigate this significant life transition, I offer individual perinatal mental health counselling for the various experiences identified.  I also come with experience in children’s mental health and have a keen interest in supporting the parent-child relationship by helping parents’ gain confidence and ease in understanding their child’s behaviour and the emotional, attachment and developmental needs being cued.

I am a Registered Social Worker who has worked in the field of mental health for over 10 years. Using various modalities, I work from a collaborative, client-centered, strengths based, emotional and relational focused, anti-oppressive, trauma and somatic informed lens. I will work to understand and support you through your experience from a place of deep compassion, acceptance and respect for you and the various identities and experiences you bring with you. As a queer parent and therapist, I have a strong interest in supporting the 2SLGBTQIA+ community but welcome anyone who feels l might be a good fit for the support they need.

I offer virtual sessions across Ontario but join from Guelph, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation of the Anishinaabek Peoples.