We are told that becoming a parent is one of the greatest joys in life. While this may be true, becoming a parent is not as simple as what we are often told. Parenthood is a transition that shifts everything in life. There are myriad ways that burgeoning and new parents find themselves experiencing significant changes in their daily life. You may have postpartum depression or anxiety, you may be experiencing physical changes that make you feel like a stranger to yourself, your identity may have shifted so significantly that you feel a loss of who you were before having children.

Regardless of your parenthood journey, the path is often filled with opportunity and grief. I believe that therapy can be a good place for clients to explore the loss and the birth (literally!) that comes with becoming a parent. Therapy is a safe place to lay it out on the table - the joy of parenthood, and the difficulty of a shift so great, it makes you question who you are. .