I've dedicated my life's work to providing guidance to women and their partners and families.

My background in medicine, nursing and midwifery, coupled with my degree in psychology, and additional training as a Gottman Bringing Baby Home Educator and Certificate in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, provides me with a broad understanding of the physical and psychological issues that women, men and families face during transitions, especially as new lives enter their world.  In Partnering to Parenting, I provide guidance and support through the entire experience from commiting to a relationship to decisions and challenges of starting a family.  Stress from infertility, pregnancy, birth and the postpartum adjustment are common experiences.  It is completely normal to question your new identity, role and responsibility when becoming a parent and to struggle with balancing personal, parental and professional needs and responsibilities. 

I offer office and home sessions for Childbirth Preparation and Postpartum Adjustment, as individual sessions or a series of 4 sessions: 2 before birth and 2 after birth, including: Childbirth Education, Preparation for Birth and Recovery, Transitioning Home with a New Baby, and Life Balance: Managing Personal, Professional and Parenting Expectations and Roles. Honoring the challenges of traveling to the office, I offer individualized teletherapy and home sessions. All sessions are virtual/telehealth at the present time, utilizing my confidential client portal.

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Treatment topics include:

• Infertility

• Miscarriage and Perinatal Loss

• Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum Education and Guidance

• Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety and Depression 

• Birth Trauma

• Parenting & Maintaining and Enhancing the Couple Relationship 

• Women's Health, Medical Concerns, Cancer

• Perimenopause and Menopause

• Counseling for Grief and Loss

• Adjustment to Aging