#perinatal

Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Expectant and New Parents

Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Expectant and New Parents

The perinatal period, from preconception through to 3 years after birth, is critical time where the mental health of a baby begins, and it is a unique time where women are highly motivated to seek help.

There is a complexity to women’s mental health. In the perinatal period, there are significant hormonal changes, physical body changes, identity changes, role changes, workplace and financial changes and often significant shifts and changes within our social and attachment relationships.

Get to Know Kamellia

Get to Know Kamellia

“It absolutely can be daunting thinking about therapy, even more difficult when you are also navigating the pressures of motherhood”

“No matter what your worries are about therapy, I will work with you to create a safe space of compassion, trust and understanding”

Why is Xmas So Hard For Grieving Couples?

Why is Xmas So Hard For Grieving Couples?

Often couples feel a sense of disconnection between themselves and others in their social network, particularly when the couple may be overwhelmed by grief & loss, and others lives appear unchanged or uninterrupted.

Grief During Prolonged Infertility

Grief During Prolonged Infertility

To understand a couple’s prolonged fertility story, it requires an understanding of 3 main themes that all revolve around Grief.

“It’s Just Grief”

“It’s Just Grief”

Grief morphs, it hides, it lingers, it waits for the unexpected trigger to set it free once again, unyielding, and unpredictable, grief can be all consuming.

Grief lies in our anticipated future, our longed for past and the all too painful present. It taps into our attachment systems, our belief systems, and sits not just in our cognitions but within our bodies.