About

Seattle Therapy was launched as a private practice in 2016, and established as a safe haven for individualized perinatal mental health in West Seattle. While the practice thrived and my clinical work evolved alongside my life, I dreamed of creating a space where mental health across the reproductive spectrum could blossom, for both regional clinicians and clients. Particularly after my own reproductive story, it is important that this practice supports everything from trying to conceive and infertility, through pregnancy and pregnancy loss, as well as the transition to postpartum and parenthood - which further includes alternative paths to parenting and childfree-not-by-choice. After some misadventures and intensive learning experiences, in 2025, this practice is rebuilding and rebranding as a small group practice that will support reproductive clinicians in their clinical growth and development, while serving an inclusive population in West Seattle and throughout Washington state.

The Reproductive Spectrum includes, but is not limited to: 

What's a Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder (PMAD)?

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders is at the core of Reproductive Mental Health. We used to identify almost everything as "postpartum depression," there are many complications that come in the joy and chaos of family building. About 30% of clients reflect that symptoms started in pregnancy, but it may take until the postpartum period to seek help or find support; we talk more about perinatal onset (in trying to concieve and pregnancy, as well as postpartum). The reality is that anything that can happen in the normal lifespan, can happen really acutely in the postpartum transition - and gestational parents are at risk for spikes in mood and anxiety symptoms for 2 years after childbirth....part of that is due to hormones and the physiological changes of birth, feeding, and parenting, but it's also due to the emotional toll surrounding the transition to parenthood and evolutions in parenting.

While some generalists are great at working with reproductive episodes, particularly if you have a prior therapeutic relationship with them, sometimes you just need someone who "gets it" on a different level. Our clinicians are trained and experienced in working with the full spectrum of PMAD complications: perinatal depression, perinatal anxiety, perinatal OCD, birth trauma, reproductive trauma, reproductive grief and loss - we know the difference between having bad days and the nuanced shift to postpartum depression.....we know that panicking that you might drop your baby doesn't mean you're a bad parent, it likely means you're anxiety is spiraling.....and we know that miscarriages are emotional regardless of how far along you were (and it's never your fault or some lesson the universe is teaching you).

We want to help you embrace your now, and reimagine the next steps.

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