Postpartum Therapy

Hi! I’m a mental health therapist and after having my daughter I decided to get trained in postpartum therapy. It’s such an underserved need and SO important (as we’re seeing in the news right now …). Too many women experience PPA/PPD/PPOCD/PPP without any support (or shitty support, again as we’re seeing in the news).

In addition to the training, I’m also trying to ask real people who went through postpartum what would be helpful to them in therapy. So:

1. if you received postpartum therapy, what was/was not helpful?

2. if you were going to access postpartum therapy, what would you look for in a provider?

3. if you wanted to receive postpartum therapy but didn’t, why not? What were the reservations or barriers in place that stopped you?

4. anything else you think would be helpful for me to take into my practice in order to provide the best possible support?