Why parent-child work?

Our first relationships with our own caregivers lay the foundation for every other intimate relationship in our lives — for our friendships, our partnerships, and our relationships with our own children.

Deep human patterns across generations guide our parenting today. When we welcome a child into the family — whether through birth, adoption, kinship or foster care — evolution invites us to face our own experience of being parented. This encounter is profound, and largely unconscious. Parent-child work allows adults to tend, and heal, past wounds in order to see our children more clearly for who they are and what they need from us in order to form secure, healthy attachments for a lifetime.

As a certified Perinatal Mental Health Counselor, I support parents through pregnancy and postpartum so you can safely explore complex feelings during this rite of passage.

I work with baby-caregiver pairs in session as well as with adults who wish to attend without baby present — in either case, you’re supported in the important work of caring for your baby while caring for yourself.

I also provide professional clinical consultation to nonprofits, educators and clinicians interested in early attachment.