Maternal Mental Health
Personalized and Focused Maternal Mental Health Counseling
Whether you’re in the planning stages, coping with fertility challenges, managing loss, or adjusting to life with a new baby, parenthood is a journey. Navigating it can bring significant and overwhelming emotional weight.
At Amplify Wellness + Performance (AWP), we understand that high-performing individuals and families can face unique pressures during these transitions. We can help guide you through the complexities of maternal mental health with compassionate, individualized therapeutic support to fit your goals and lifestyle.
Maternal Mental Health Counseling–and How AWP Can Help
From the moment you decide to grow your family, you’re faced with decisions that bring both excitement and stress. If you’re facing fertility treatments, struggling with uncertainty, or coping with the heartbreak of miscarriage or stillbirth, this journey can feel isolating and overwhelming–especially when we feel like it’s “supposed” to be a happy time.
At Amplify Wellness + Performance (AWP), we work with you to maximize your personal and professional abilities and optimize your life in the ways you feel are most important. We’ll set attainable goals and identify your barriers to peak performance.
Together, we’ll outline the best strategies to help you build the skills you need to achieve your goals.
That’s Where AWP Comes In
Our clinical psychologists specialize in working with high-achieving individuals and families who are used to managing it all… But who also recognize that this chapter requires a different kind of support.
We’ll work with you to process grief, heal from trauma, and develop individualized strategies to help you regain a sense of balance.
Our maternal mental health support is tailored to your unique needs as a high-performer:
- Emotional support through fertility challenges, treatments, and decision-making
- Processing grief from miscarriage, stillbirth, or unsuccessful fertility treatments
- Healing from birth trauma or unexpected birth outcomes
- Navigating identity shifts and role transitions into parenthood
- Managing perinatal and postpartum depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, shame, guilt, or feelings of inadequacy
- Adjustment to evolving relationship dynamics and partner support
- Building coping strategies to manage sleep deprivation, mood swings, and new parenthood demands
- Strengthening attachment and bonding with your baby
- Empowering informed decision-making, advocacy, and boundary-setting in health care environments
AWP provides culturally-responsive care that honors diverse family-building paths. Our maternal mental health counseling is LGBTQIA+ affirming.
Maternal Mental Health Counseling for High-Performers
At AWP, we believe that maternal mental health counseling should be as dynamic as the clients we see. Our approach isn’t simply about talking through feelings–it’s about helping you set clear, attainable goals for your mental and overall wellness. We help you equip yourself with the skills and strategies you need to thrive in a new chapter of life.
Our clinicians understand that, for high-performing people, family planning and parenting come with unique challenges. You may be balancing a demanding career, maintaining personal goals, and managing complex relationships–all while adjusting to the mental and physical shifts of parenthood.
Through maternal mental health counseling at AWP, you’ll develop practical, actionable plans that fit your reality, whether that’s preparing for fertility treatments, navigating postpartum challenges, or healing from past traumatic experiences.
AWP’s clinicians have a true understanding of the pressures faced by high-performing parents. We’ll work with you to identify barriers to wellness, outline a clear path for moving forward, and provide the tools you need to feel more like yourself again–stronger, more resilient, and more connected to your family and goals.
How Can AWP Help?
With the right support, you can manage anxiety or depression, move through grief, learn to navigate your new role, and build a sense of balance in your life. AWP’s clinicians can:
- Help you gain insight into patterns of thought and behaviors that might be contributing to stress
- Work with you to develop coping strategies tailored to your lifestyle and goals
- Provide a safe, supportive place to process emotions and navigate challenges
- Empower you to make decisions about your care, set boundaries, and advocate for yourself and your family
Our maternal mental health counseling is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves support. No matter where you are in your journey to parenthood or what challenges you may be facing.
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Appointments via Telehealth or In-Person
AWP is based in Boston and San Diego. In person appointments can be arranged in Back Bay or Mission Valley.
We offer Telehealth appointments. AWP conducts remote sessions via HIPAA-compliant video conferencing.
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