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Being a parent or carer is a demanding, long-term task—and there are times when it feels especially hard.
You might have a partner or be coping alone, navigating your own childhood experiences as they echo through your parenting or caring, or struggling with your mental health. Separation, divorce, bereavement, trauma, or having a child you find difficult to understand or connect with can all add significant emotional strain.
In these moments, speaking with a kind, objective professional can help.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a space to explore your thoughts and feelings as a parent or carer—without judgment. Together, we can think about what’s going on beneath the surface and how it may be affecting your relationship with your child and your experience of being a parent or carer.
You don’t need to have a clear problem or diagnosis—just a wish to reflect and understand more deeply.
Support during pregnancy and the perinatal period
Pregnancy, birth and the early months and years of a child’s life can be a time of enormous pleasure and joy, but they can also bring unexpected feelings of confusion, difficulty, illness, loss or trauma. As a midwife, nurse and child and adolescent psychotherapist, I have extensive experience of working with families across the life cycle, with a particular interest and experience in the antenatal, postnatal and wider perinatal period. I understand that becoming a parent can bring up many different feelings and experiences, sometimes including difficulties that are hard to understand or talk about.
If you would like to explore whether psychotherapy might be helpful to you during pregnancy or the perinatal period, or if you are looking back on this time and finding that experiences from pregnancy, birth or early parenthood continue to affect you or your family, please get in touch. You are welcome to arrange a free initial 30-minute consultation, during which we can talk about what you are experiencing and consider whether I, or one of the other child psychotherapists working within the practice, might be the right person to support you.
Support for partners of women who have recently given birth
The transition to parenthood can bring profound changes and emotions, yet partners can sometimes feel that there is less space to talk about their own experiences. Pregnancy, birth and early parenthood can bring joy and excitement, but can also involve anxiety, uncertainty, loss, trauma or feelings of being overwhelmed. Difficult experiences around pregnancy or birth may continue to affect partners long afterwards.
Psychotherapy can offer a confidential space to think about these experiences, whether difficulties are arising during the perinatal period or you are looking back on an earlier experience of becoming a parent. You do not need to be in crisis or have a particular diagnosis to seek support. Sometimes having the opportunity to talk openly and make sense of what has happened can be an important first step.
Partners are very welcome to contact the practice for a free initial 30-minute consultation, where we can explore what you are experiencing and whether psychotherapy might be helpful.
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