Postpartum and Perinatal Therapy

If you feel overwhelmed with sadness or worry, struggle to care for yourself or your family, or wonder why you don't have positive, blissful feelings toward your newborn, you might have a Postpartum Mood or Anxiety Disorder. Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) is a category that includes several disorders:

• Postpartum depression

• Postpartum anxiety

• Postpartum PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), related to traumatic birth

• Postpartum OCD (obsessive worries and rituals, especially about your baby)

These disorders are the most common medical complication related to childbirth, affecting at least 1 in 7 new mothers and 1 in 10 new fathers. PMAD is more than just having bad days, and the symptoms can happen to any new parent. PMAD can develop any time in the first year postpartum, and go beyond "baby blues" and adjusting to the new normal following the birth of your baby.  

Postpartum mental health is a specialty of Dr. Pearce; however, any of our therapists can evaluate and provide treatment in the postpartum period.

Postpartum Therapy

Individual therapy can help you process your thoughts and emotions, develop new coping skills that fit your new lifestyle as a parent, and get back to living your life and enjoying your baby. You deserve to get the help you need, so contact us at Grace Behavioral Health to see if individual postpartum counseling is right for you.

Prenatal Therapy

Prenatal therapy can help you prepare for childbirth and address any mood or anxiety problems that may have come up during pregnancy. Heal from past childbirth trauma, turn “what-ifs” into “even-ifs”, and enhance your childbirth preparation by working with a therapist who also has experience as a certified birth doula and childbirth educator. Learn more about Dr. Pearce.