Maternal Mental Health Therapy
Offering virtual therapy in New York, New Jersey, & Florida
Feeling alone in your infertility, pregnancy, or postpartum journey?
Whether you’re coping with the heartache of failed fertility treatments, mourning a miscarriage, or adjusting to the exhaustion and identity shift of new motherhood—this work is hard. And you deserve support that honors the full depth of your experience.
Working with a therapist who understands the complexities of this journey can help you process your feelings, rewrite painful narratives, and move through it all with greater clarity, connection, and self-compassion.
Understanding Maternal Mental Health
Motherhood is often painted as a joyful and fulfilling chapter of life—but for many, the journey to and through it is anything but simple. If you’re facing infertility, navigating pregnancy, or adjusting to life postpartum and finding yourself not okay, you’re not alone.
These seasons can be filled with contradictions: grief and hope, fear and love, resentment and longing. And while well-meaning voices may urge you to “just stay positive,” the truth is, your experience deserves more than toxic positivity.
Maternal mental health encompasses the emotional, psychological, and relational challenges that can surface during infertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of your next step, your feelings are valid—and support is available.
Who We Help
Offering Virtual Anxiety Therapy in New York, New Jersey, & Florida.
We provide maternal mental health therapy for individuals who are:
Facing infertility or going through fertility treatments
Coping with pregnancy loss or miscarriage
Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected during pregnancy
Adjusting to life postpartum, including identity shifts and new responsibilities
Experiencing postpartum depression, anxiety, or OCD
Navigating difficult emotions in response to societal or family expectations
Struggling with body image after pregnancy and birth
Looking for support as they re-engage with their relationships, careers, or personal passions
Our therapists deeply understand how emotionally raw and isolating this journey can be—we provide a warm, grounded space to unpack and process your experience, without judgment or platitudes.
Our Therapeutic Approach
At HLH Therapy, we are relational therapists who believe that healing happens through authentic connection. Through both relational therapy and the utilization of narrative therapy, we honor the unique stories and social contexts that shape your experience. Our work is individualized, drawing from:
Narrative Therapy
We explore the stories you’ve come to believe about your body, your worth, and your identity—especially when those stories have been shaped by trauma, infertility, or unmet expectations. Together, we untangle and rewrite those narratives with compassion, truth, and self-kindness.Relational Therapy
Healing happens in connection. We provide a space where your full emotional reality is seen and supported. We also help you build or rebuild nourishing relationships—with loved ones, with peer communities, and most importantly, with yourself.Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Depending on your needs, we may also incorporate skills from DBT to support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and boundary setting.
We work to tailor your therapy to your unique needs, story, and goals—never taking a one-size-fits-all approach.
What Sessions Are Like
Offering Virtual Therapy in New York, New Jersey & Florida
Therapy sessions are held virtually and typically last 45 minutes. Most clients meet weekly, though we offer bi-weekly options depending on your goals and preferences.
In our work together, we often explore:
Grief in all its forms—ambiguous, delayed, or compounded
The stories you’ve absorbed about motherhood, womanhood, or “worthiness”
Feelings of failure, resentment, isolation, or fear
How to regulate emotions and soothe your nervous system
The impact of hormones on thoughts, identity, and relationships
Communication with loved ones and healthcare providers
Boundary setting and finding supportive community
Identity shifts—including reconnection to creativity, purpose, or joy
The pressures of perfectionism and internalized expectations
Navigating baby showers, social events, or triggering conversations
Rebuilding body trust and self-compassion
We’re not here to fix you or the situation you are in. We’re here to walk beside you, reflect what’s true, and gently challenge the stories that aren’t.
Our Unique Approach
Maternal mental health doesn’t always fit into neat boxes or DSM checklists. That’s why we take a personalized, deeply relational approach—one that validates your emotions, understands the hormonal and neurological changes happening in your body, and centers your lived experience.
Infertility, IVF treatments, postpartum, and being a new parent can feel isolating — you don’t have to struggle alone.
Collaborating with Your Support System
Partners, family members, and friends often mean well—but their “positivity” can sometimes feel unhelpful. We help you process these interactions, communicate your needs, and create boundaries that protect your emotional well-being.
We can also help you build a broader circle of support—including connections to online or in-person groups, especially if you’re seeking community with others navigating similar struggles.
Note: We’ll soon be offering both a maternal mental health support group (open to clients globally) and a skills-based DBT-informed group (available in NY, NJ, and FL).
What Clients Can Expect
Our therapy space is warm, nonjudgmental, and client-centered. Clients often bring forward a mix of grief, guilt, fear, and frustration—sometimes with a touch of shame for even having those feelings. In our sessions, you can expect:
A soft landing place for your hardest thoughts
Room to talk about the identity shifts you’re experiencing
Help sorting through perfectionism, people-pleasing, or postpartum compulsions
Space to reconnect with parts of yourself that feel lost
This isn’t just about surviving. It’s about making meaning, reclaiming your voice, and moving through this season with more groundedness.
Adapting Therapy to Your Needs
Whether you’re mid-treatment cycle, early in pregnancy, postpartum, or grieving what never came to be—your emotional needs are valid. We adapt each session to reflect what’s most present for you, without rushing or pushing.
Our goal is to ensure therapy remains aligned with your needs.
Therapy Adjustments and Special Considerations
We know this journey is nonlinear. Therapy may look different week to week depending on hormone shifts, grief waves, medical procedures, or sleep deprivation.
We’re here to meet you where you are—whether that’s needing space to vent, sitting in silence, planning communication with your partner, or crying through the whole session.
We also recognize the ways this process can re-activate previous mental health struggles (like OCD, anxiety, depression, or disordered eating). Together, we’ll name those overlaps and offer support that’s holistic and non-pathologizing.
Long-Term Benefits of Maternal Mental Health Therapy
While the road may be winding, this work can help you:
Feel less alone in your experience
Gain tools to manage overwhelming thoughts and emotions
Reclaim your identity beyond fertility or motherhood
Build healthier, more authentic connections with others
Rewrite the narratives that have kept you stuck or ashamed
Feel more grounded and resilient for whatever lies ahead
Whether you’re deep in the struggle or coming up for air, therapy can offer a soft place to land—and a space to rediscover your strength, wisdom, and voice.
Ready to Start Therapy?
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
At HLH Therapy, our relational therapists offer virtual therapy for individuals and couples in New York, New Jersey, & Florida. We specialize in Maternal Mental Health (including infertility, IVF, pregnancy, and postpartum), Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating, Body Image, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Couples Therapy.
