Our culture tends to tell very narrow stories about reproduction, pregnancy, and parenthood. We’re taught that these experiences should feel linear, joyful, meaningful, and clear-cut. But for many people, reproductive experiences are far more complex.
I bring both professional training and lived experience to this work. My own reproductive story includes ambivalence about parenthood, recurrent pregnancy loss, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), hyperemesis gravidarum, and a cesarean birth. I know firsthand how painful, isolating, and disorienting reproductive experiences can be - especially when they fall outside of the stories we’ve been taught are acceptable or expected.
Too often, people navigating reproductive grief, trauma, or complexity are made to feel broken. Their experiences may be minimized, dismissed, or misunderstood. This can be especially true for people holding other marginalized identities, including LGBTQ+ people, neurodivergent people, disabled people, people of color, and people in larger bodies. Systems of oppression deeply shape how people experience healthcare, pregnancy, loss, parenthood, bodily autonomy, and grief.
In our work together, I aim to create a space where your grief, trauma, ambivalence, anger, confusion, hope, or uncertainty can be fully seen and held. A space where your full self - all of your identities, experiences, and ways of moving through the world - will be affirmed.
Together, we may explore ways of making sense of your experiences with compassion and care. We might explore themes of meaning, identity, purpose, grief, or transformation. But this is always an invitation, never an expectation. There does not need to be a silver lining. It is also okay if what happened feels senseless, unfair, or impossible to reconcile.
Feminist therapy helps us explore how systems of oppression and cultural expectations shape the way we experience our reproductive stories, bodies, identities, and relationships. Together, we work toward building a greater sense of agency, self-trust, and empowerment in navigating reproductive experiences and systems that may have caused harm.
Existential therapy creates space to explore themes such as life and death, purpose, values, freedom, isolation, connection, and uncertainty. Reproductive experiences often bring us into deep questions about identity, meaning, grief, and what it means to live fully in the face of loss and vulnerability.
When helpful, we may incorporate elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to challenge thought patterns that are no longer serving you and to build grounding, mindfulness, and sensory-based coping skills that can support emotional regulation and nervous system safety.
Narrative Exposure Therapy allows space for traumatic experiences to be processed through storytelling and witnessing. Many people carrying reproductive trauma have never had their experiences fully acknowledged or held with care. Together, we can gently work toward integrating these experiences into your broader life story in a way that honors your pain, resilience, and humanity.
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