Parenthood changes more than your day-to-day.
PARENTHOOD
From wondering if you’re ready to become a parent to wondering who you are now that you are one, there’s room here for all of it.
Maybe this isn’t how you thought it would be.
Maybe you love your child deeply and still feel overwhelmed, anxious, angry, disconnected, or not quite like yourself.
Maybe becoming a parent was harder, scarier, or lonelier than you expected. Maybe getting here was complicated. Or maybe you're still trying to decide whether parenthood is something you want at all.
All of that makes sense.
There isn't one right way to feel about becoming—or being—a parent.
The path to parenthood
Fertility challenges, uncertainty, anxiety, and navigating whether and how to grow your family.
Pregnancy and postpartum
Anxiety, depression, overwhelm, identity shifts, or simply not feeling like yourself.
Birth + NICU experiences
When pregnancy, birth, postpartum, or the NICU didn’t unfold the way you expected.
The mental load
The invisible work, resentment, guilt, overstimulation, and feeling like you’re always “on.”
Relationships after kids
Changes in intimacy, communication, roles, expectations, and the way you relate to your partner, family, and friends.
Finding yourself again
Making room for who you were, who you’ve become, and who you’re still figuring out how to be.
Becoming parents changes your relationship, too.
Becoming Us offers a structured space for partners to prepare for — and navigate — the transition to parenthood.
Sometimes a birth can look “fine” on paper and still not feel fine to you. Trauma can come from medical complications, fear, loss of control, not understanding what was happening, having choices taken away, or an experience unfolding very differently than expected.
Your experience matters.
When the experience stays with you.
You are not alone if you’re navigating anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, or another mental health challenge during pregnancy, postpartum, or while parenting.
These experiences are real, treatable, and deserving of support.
When it’s more than overwhelm.
You don’t have to become a different person to feel better.
Therapy can be a place to understand what’s happening underneath the overwhelm—not just find another thing to add to your to-do list.
Together, we can get curious about patterns that keep showing up, find ways to work with anxiety or overwhelm, process experiences that still feel close to the surface, or untangle some of the expectations you’ve been carrying about what parenthood should look like.