Therapies

This approach is particularly helpful for those struggling with self-criticism, shame, or worries about not being a ‘good enough’ parent. Therapy involves understanding relational patterns, both with yourself and others, and gently exploring the safety strategies that may have helped you cope in the past but are now keeping you stuck. We use tools to strengthen your soothing system and cultivate a more compassionate inner voice.

Using approaches such as video-assisted feedback, we work together to observe and reflect on your baby’s behaviour. These methods offer insight into your baby’s needs and emotional states and help to build confidence in your responses. This work can be especially helpful if you’re finding it hard to interpret your baby’s cues, or simply want to feel more attuned and connected.

I offer evidence-based parenting strategies designed to empower you, enhance your knowledge, skills and confidence. This kind of support is especially helpful for parents who feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or stuck when trying to respond to their child’s needs, emotions and behaviours, and want tools that really work.

Parent Infant Psychotherapy supports the parent-baby bond by exploring how your own early experiences may shape your relationship today. Grounded in psychoanalytic and attachment theories, it helps uncover emotional patterns (both conscious and unconscious) that influence how you connect. You and your baby attend sessions together, where we observe, talk, and reflect. The aim is to support your emotional wellbeing so that you, in turn, can offer your baby the care they need to thrive.

Using approaches like Trauma-Focused CBT and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), we can process traumatic memories in a structured way to reduce how distressing they feel in the here and now. Depending on your needs and preferences, this may or may not involve talking in detail about the events themselves. These therapies are used where trauma memories are impacting on your experience of parenthood.  

CBT helps you understand how your thoughts, feelings and behaviours are connected, and how they shape your experience. It tends to have more of a focus in the here and now, offering opportunities to experiment with new ways forward. Together we practice practical skills and tools for managing common troubles such as anxiety, intrusive thoughts or low mood.  

This can be a good fit for couples who wish to attend together to work on their relationship dynamics. The perinatal period is a marked period of change for any couple. When couples get stuck repeating unhelpful patterns, therapy can help by improving communication, enhancing understanding and strengthening your relationship as a powerful resource for supporting each other’s emotional wellbeing.