Peri-Natal Mental Health

A parent’s wellbeing has a huge impact on their developing child. The science of a baby’s brain is quite remarkable. Forming over a million neural connections every second, the brain develops more in a person’s first five years, than at any other stage of their life.

Intervention within the perinatal period can be a protective factor for the individual parent and the family unit, with long-lasting impacts.

Some of the ways we work with parents include:

• Normalising their struggle, and evidence-based strategies to assist with managing feelings of anxiety/fear, sadness, guilt, and adjustment to parenthood
• Supporting the parent to talk, attune with, and interact with their child in a way that helps support the healthy development of mirror neurons and a secure attachment relationship
• Support around creating healthy home routines and a healthy family environment

We may be able to assist with:

• Perinatal mental health, including antenatal & postnatal anxiety & depression
• Pre-conception preparation, including fertility issues
• Pregnancy
• Perinatal loss
• Birth trauma
• Premature birth
• Post-birth adjustment
• Relationship support
• Parent-infant attachment
• Parenting
• Supporting fathers