Attachment and Parenthood

For parents, caregivers, and nurturers navigating emotional shifts, identity changes, and the weight of doing it all.

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Care for yourself without abandoning those who rely on you

Parenthood and caregiving can be deeply meaningful—but also incredibly heavy. You may love who you care for, but the mental and emotional load you carry often goes unseen. You may feel like your own needs don’t count, or that voicing them makes you selfish. You may be grieving the version of you that had space to rest, breathe, or dream. This isn’t about diagnosing your exhaustion. It’s about making room for you in the middle of everything you hold.

This Is For You If…

  • You’re navigating perinatal or postpartum shifts and feel emotionally stretched thin

  • You’re a caregiver (to children, aging parents, partners, or others) carrying silent grief or guilt

  • You’re managing overwhelm in ways that are beginning to wear down your body or mood

  • You feel tension between your capacity and everyone’s needs

  • You love your people, but you’ve forgotten how to care for yourself

  • You want a soft place to land where your tenderness isn’t treated like weakness

  • You want to parent with intention but keep defaulting to old patterns

  • You’ve never had space to process what kind of parent you want to be

In therapy, we’ll explore:

  • The Roots of Overgiving

    Understanding how attachment shapes your caregiving instincts, boundaries, and burnout

    How we learned to care (especially in childhood) shapes how we give care now. Together, we’ll explore whether your caregiving comes from security or survival, and how to shift away from people-pleasing, overextension, or emotional shutdown toward care that honors you, too.

  • Postpartum Without the Performance

    Exploring postpartum and perinatal shifts—without shame or pressure

    The transition into parenthood can feel disorienting, no matter how much you’ve prepared. Therapy offers space to process the fears, identity shifts, grief, and hormonal/emotional changes that come with pregnancy, birth, and postpartum—without expecting you to smile through it.

  • Grief That Doesn’t Need a Funeral

    Naming and honoring your grief without minimizing it

    Not all grief is loud or obvious. There’s grief in losing time, identity, autonomy—or the kind of support you wish you had. This is a place to hold those losses with gentleness and validation, even when no one else seems to notice them.

  • Relearning How to Receive

    Relearning what it means to rest, receive, and return to yourself

    Many caregivers are praised for what they give—but rarely taught how to receive. Therapy helps you soften around that edge, building capacity to pause, feel, and be supported without guilt. You’re allowed to exist beyond your output.

  • Caregiving Without Self-Erasure

    Creating a more spacious version of caregiving that doesn’t erase you

    You can show up for others and stay rooted in yourself. We’ll work together to rewrite what caregiving means—making space for boundaries, joy, pleasure, grief, and the full range of who you are. It’s not about doing less—it’s about doing it differently.

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Attachment x Parenthood FAQs

  • This space is for all forms of caregiving—not just parenting. Whether you're raising children, supporting aging parents, or carrying emotional labor in relationships, this work honors the emotional toll of being the “strong one” and helps you reconnect to yourself in the process.

  • Yes. Therapy offers more than symptom management—it creates space for you to process the massive emotional and identity shifts that come with pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life. We’ll explore your experience with compassion, not performance.

  • Not at all. Guilt is common when you're used to putting others first. In therapy, we’ll name where that guilt comes from (often attachment patterns or cultural messaging) and work toward a caregiving rhythm that includes your needs without shame.

  • Burnout often comes from chronic over-functioning and unmet emotional needs. We’ll work together to identify your patterns, rebuild your boundaries, and cultivate rest and replenishment—without sacrificing your values or care for others.

  • Attachment shapes how you connect, respond to stress, and care for others. It influences your capacity to ask for help, rest without guilt, and feel safe in your role. Understanding your attachment style helps you shift from self-sacrifice to secure, sustainable care.

  • Yes. In addition to individual therapy, I offer family sessions when it supports your healing. This can include co-parenting dynamics, attachment-based parenting support, or creating space for your loved ones to better understand your experience.

Have more questions? Feel free to reach out or schedule a free consultation—I’d be happy to help.

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