CBT for Perinatal Difficulties

I have a specialist interest in helping women who are pregnant or who have a baby to care for. In my NHS role I have worked with many women in this season of life, in specialist perinatal services and in primary care teams. As a mother, I know how challenging this period of life can be, and the ways in which pregnancy, giving birth and looking after a baby can throw into question lots of what we thought we knew about ourselves. “Mothering the mother” is something I aim to do through my CBT work with women in this stage.

Perinatal Anxiety

• Antenatal anxiety

• Postnatal anxiety

• Perinatal perfectionism

• Birth trauma

• Tokophobia (Fear of child birth)

• Hyperemisis Gravidarum related mental health difficulties

• Adjustment difficulties

• Maternal rage

• Parenting burnout/overwhelm

Perinatal Depression

• Antenatal depression

• Postnatal depression

• Baby blues

• Baby loss/still birth

• Miscarriage

• Fertility struggles