Perinatal Therapy for Women in Missouri
You Can Love Your Baby and Still Struggle.
Pregnancy and motherhood can bring some of the biggest changes of your life.
Sometimes those changes feel exciting and beautiful.
Sometimes they feel overwhelming, lonely, confusing, or nothing like you expected.
You may love your baby deeply and still feel anxious. You may be grateful and overwhelmed. You may be a good mom and still need help.
Both can exist.
Perinatal therapy gives you a place to talk honestly about what you’re experiencing, without judgment or pressure to pretend that everything is okay.
At Blooming Roses, we’ll work together to help you understand what you’re feeling, build practical coping skills, reconnect with yourself, and feel more confident navigating this season of life.
You don’t have to navigate it alone.
Maybe You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Anymore.
Motherhood can change your sense of identity in ways you may not have expected.
Do any of these sound like thoughts you’ve had?
“I don’t feel like myself anymore.”
“Why can’t I just enjoy this?”
“Why does everyone else seem to be handling this better than me?”
“I love my baby. Why am I struggling so much?”
“I feel like I’m failing.”
“I don’t even know what I need. I just know I’m overwhelmed.”
These thoughts don’t mean you’re a bad mom.
They don’t mean you’re ungrateful.
And they don’t mean you’re failing.
They may simply mean you’re carrying more than you were meant to carry alone.
Therapy can give you a safe place to put some of that weight down.
What We Can Work Through Together
Anxiety & Racing Thoughts
Your mind won’t slow down, even when everything around you is quiet.
We can work on understanding anxious thoughts, developing practical coping skills, and finding ways to feel more grounded.
Postpartum Depression & Emotional Changes
You may feel sad, numb, irritable, disconnected, or unlike yourself.
Therapy can provide space to understand what you’re experiencing and begin moving toward feeling more like yourself again.
Mom Guilt & Confidence
You may constantly wonder whether you’re doing this right.
We’ll work toward building confidence in yourself and learning to recognize that being a good mom doesn’t require being a perfect one.
Identity & Finding Yourself Again
Motherhood is one part of who you are—not the entirety of who you are.
Therapy can help you reconnect with your identity, values, needs, boundaries, and the parts of yourself that may have gotten lost in the transition into motherhood.
Overwhelm
You may feel like you’re holding everything together until suddenly you can’t anymore.
Therapy can give you space to slow down, figure out what you actually need, and develop practical ways to manage everything you’re carrying.
Relationship Changes
You and your partner may both be exhausted, and suddenly everything feels harder than it used to.
We can explore communication, expectations, boundaries, emotional needs, and the changes motherhood can bring to relationships.
Difficult or Unexpected Pregnancy & Birth Experiences
Maybe your pregnancy or birth didn’t go the way you imagined.
Maybe something happened that you weren’t prepared for.
Maybe you’re still trying to make sense of what happened.
Therapy can give you a space to process your experience and work through the emotions that may still be following you.
Therapy That Is Both Practical & Compassionate
I believe therapy should meet you where you are.
Sometimes you need practical tools.
Sometimes you need someone to simply sit with you in what you’re feeling.
Sometimes you need both.
My approach incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help develop practical coping skills, while also creating room for deeper emotional processing.
We’ll work together to understand what’s happening, identify what you need, and develop tools that you can actually use in your everyday life.
More Than Traditional Therapy
As a therapist, doula, and childbirth educator, I bring a perspective that goes beyond mental health alone.
I understand that the perinatal season isn’t just an emotional transition.
It’s physical.
It’s relational.
It’s a change in identity.
It’s learning an entirely new role while trying to remember who you were before it.
My experience in perinatal support allows me to understand the unique challenges that pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood can bring while still approaching therapy through a clinical lens.
What You Can Expect…
A Place to Be Honest
You don’t have to edit yourself or make your experience sound better than it feels.
No Judgment
There is room for the thoughts, feelings, questions, and struggles you may be afraid to say out loud.
Practical Support
We’ll develop coping skills and strategies you can actually use when anxiety, overwhelm, or difficult emotions show up.
Space to Process
Not everything can be solved with a coping skill. Sometimes you need space to understand what happened and how it affected you.
Support for Who You Are—Not Just Who You Are as a Mom
You’re still a person with your own needs, identity, relationships, hopes, and dreams.
Therapy can help you reconnect with that person.
Faith Can Be Part of Your Therapy
If faith is an important part of your life, it can be part of your therapy too.
As a Catholic Christian, I am happy to incorporate faith into our work when that is meaningful to you.
If you prefer therapy to remain non-faith-based, that’s completely okay too.
Your therapy should be a space where you feel respected and supported exactly where you are.
You Don’t Have to Wait Until You’re Falling Apart
You don’t have to wait until things become unbearable before asking for support.
You don’t need a diagnosis.
You don’t need to know exactly what’s wrong.
And you don’t need to have the perfect words.
If something feels harder than it should, if you don’t feel like yourself, or if you’re simply ready
to have someone walk alongside you, therapy can be a place to start.
You deserve support, too.
Ready to Feel Like Yourself Again?
You can love your baby and still need support.
You can be grateful and overwhelmed.
You can be a good mom and still struggle.
Both can exist.
Let’s create a space where you can feel seen, understood, supported, and a little less alone.
Private Pay Rates
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Not sure if a therapist is the right fit? Schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation to get quick answers and see if my approach feels right for you. In this brief call, you’ll be able to:
Describe your main concerns and goals
Ask about the therapist’s style, experience, and specialties
Learn about session structure, fees, and availability
Decide whether to book a full session — no pressure, no obligation
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An intake counseling session is a warm, confidential first meeting where you and your counselor get to know each other, clarify your goals, and map out a plan for moving forward. During this session, you’ll share your current concerns, personal history, and what you’d like to change or understand better. The counselor will ask questions to understand your strengths, challenges, and any immediate needs, explain how therapy works, review confidentiality and limits, and discuss practical details like session length, frequency, fees, and cancellation policy. By the end of the intake, you should have a clearer sense of the therapeutic approach that will be used, mutual expectations, and next steps—whether that’s beginning regular sessions, a referral, or a short-term plan to address urgent concerns. The goal is to create a safe, collaborative foundation so you feel heard, respected, and supported from the very first appointment.
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Our intake process is warm, respectful, and designed to help everyone feel heard from the very first session. We begin with a brief phone or video consultation to answer questions, review logistics, and make sure our approach is a good fit. For the first full session, each person has time to share their perspective, goals, and core concerns while the clinician gathers family history, communication patterns, and any relevant medical or mental health information. We use structured, collaborative tools to identify strengths, recurring conflict cycles, and shared values so treatment goals are clear and practical.
Confidentiality and safety are prioritized. We explain limits of confidentiality, emergency procedures, and how individual versus joint sessions will be used. If needed, we collect consent for sharing information among family members or with outside providers.
After intake, you’ll receive a concise treatment plan outlining goals, recommended session types (couples, family, individual), frequency, and measurable milestones. We welcome questions, adjustments, and ongoing feedback so the plan evolves with your needs. Our aim is to create a calm, organized start that builds trust and sets a constructive path forward for your relationship and family wellbeing.
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The one-on-one counseling session offers a safe, confidential space to explore thoughts, feelings, and life challenges with a compassionate, trained therapist. Sessions are tailored to your needs—whether you’re coping with anxiety, depression, relationship changes, grief, stress, or wanting personal growth and self-understanding. Together, you and I will set clear goals, develop practical strategies, and build skills to improve emotional well-being and daily functioning. Sessions are typically 50 minutes, held weekly or as agreed, and delivered via secure telehealth. You’ll leave each session with greater clarity, tools to manage difficult moments, and steps toward lasting change.
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Feeling stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed? Our couple and family counseling sessions provide a safe, compassionate space to rebuild trust, improve communication, and strengthen relationships. Each session helps you identify patterns, express needs clearly, and develop practical tools for resolving conflict and nurturing connection. Whether you’re preparing for a major life change, navigating parenting challenges, or healing after hurts, we work collaboratively with you to create realistic goals and lasting change. Sessions are warm, nonjudgmental, and tailored to your family’s values and pace—because stronger relationships begin with understanding and small, steady steps forward.
60 minutes never long enough?
Take a look at our offered intensives!
