Why Seeing a Mental Health Professional During Pregnancy is a Good Idea
A new baby can be such a joyful time during a mother’s life; however, it can also be just as stressful. So many emotions, decisions to make, and adjustments that mental health goes on the back burner even more so once the baby is born and all your time and attention goes towards them. These are some of the many reasons why prioritizing mental health and going to therapy during a pregnancy can be beneficial:
Learning to Manage Emotions
Pregnancy can bring a mix of emotions, mood swings, including anxiety. Therapy can provide you with a safe nonjudgemental environment to explore these feelings and worries and also learn the coping tools to manage them.
Stress Management
Practicing and learning what self care even means for you and learning relaxation techniques to calm your mind and body cam help make this stage of your life a little less overwhelming.
Improve Relationships
Learning to communicate your feeling, needs, and boundaries assertively to your partner or family members is going help in managing conflict and make you feel more confident in yourself and your ability to handle difficult situations
Address Parenthood Anxiety
Being a new mom can create a lot of fears and self doubt like “am I going to be a good mom”, “what ifs”, “am I capable”, learn to get a hold of those negative thoughts and get into a healthy mindset through therapy.
Address Past Trauma
During my time as a therapist, I have also encountered new moms struggling with past childhood trauma and fears that they will behave like their own parents, or because of the unhealthy ways they have learned to cope, they will pass this trauma on to their child. Therapy can help you process through your own trauma so you can feel more confident in yourself and your abilities as a mother and heal your inner child before bringing another one into this world.
Contact us now to schedule your first session and be on the road to being the best version of yourself as an individual and as a mother, be more prepared to manage postpartum, and reduce the chances of struggling with postpartum depression and anxiety.
