Perinatal Mental Health Therapy in Vermont

Pregnancy, Postpartum & Loss

Perinatal mental health therapy in Vermont can be anything from dealing with grief around struggling to conceive, to getting through the first year of your new life with a baby. I'm Amber, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and I specialize in Perinatal Mental Health. I see clients in person at The Village Collective in Richmond and online anywhere in Vermont.

Who I work with

Most of the women who reach out to me say some version of the same thing: something about being a new parent feels off, it isn't what they pictured, and they can't name what's wrong. Sometimes it has a name, like postpartum anxiety or depression. Sometimes it's grief after a miscarriage or a long stretch of infertility. Sometimes it's the way a family member showed up after the birth and nobody agreed on the rules.

If any of that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.

What perinatal means

The term comes from Latin words meaning "around" birth. It covers the time from conception through the first full year after delivery. In practice I take it wider than that. I work with women who are family planning, trying to conceive, pregnant, postpartum, or still unpacking a birth that happened a while ago.

Boundaries with family after a baby

A new baby rearranges every relationship around it. Family members who were easy to be around suddenly have opinions about feeding, sleep, visits, and who gets to hold the baby first. A lot of the couples I work with aren't fighting with their families so much as they're fighting with each other about their families.

We slow this down. We figure out what you need, what you can live with, and what's a hard no, then work on how to say it so it lands. This is often where family-of-origin work comes in, because the boundaries that are hardest to hold are usually the ones we never got to have growing up.