Postpartum Therapy
Compassionate therapy for teens and women navigating feeling overwhelmed after having a baby, postpartum anxiety symptoms, postpartum mood swings, and emotional changes after birth.
You Are Not Alone in This.
Postpartum therapy can help if you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or unlike yourself after having a baby. Many new mothers struggle with postpartum depression symptoms, postpartum anxiety symptoms, mood swings, intrusive thoughts postpartum, or difficulty adjusting to motherhood. You may find yourself crying more often, feeling disconnected, or constantly worried about your baby’s safety. Some women feel sad after having a baby or struggle with not bonding with their baby right away. These emotional changes are more common than many women realize, and you do not have to face them alone. Postpartum therapy provides a supportive space to talk openly about what you are experiencing, gain coping tools, and begin to feel more stable, confident, and understood during this transition into motherhood.
Postpartum Depression Symptoms, Anxiety After Giving Birth, and Postpartum Mental Health Help
Many women begin looking for postpartum mental health help when emotional changes after birth start to feel difficult to manage. You may be experiencing postpartum depression symptoms, anxiety after giving birth, postpartum mood swings, intrusive thoughts postpartum, or feeling overwhelmed after baby. Some mothers also notice sadness, difficulty sleeping even when the baby sleeps, increased irritability, or fears about whether they are bonding the way they expected. Therapy for postpartum depression can help you understand what you are experiencing, process the emotional stress of this transition, and build support as you begin to feel more grounded in motherhood.
My Approach
My work focuses on supporting individuals through reproductive and life transitions with compassion, curiosity, and respect for the complexities of these experiences. Therapy with me is trauma informed and centered on helping you feel grounded, supported, and understood as you navigate pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, fertility challenges, hormonal shifts, or identity changes connected to motherhood and reproductive health. Together, we create space to slow down, process what you’re experiencing, and reconnect with your sense of stability and self.
Areas of Support
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The postpartum period can bring emotional and psychological changes that many women are not fully prepared for. You may find yourself feeling overwhelmed after baby, anxious, constantly worried about your child’s safety, struggling with sleep deprivation, or feeling disconnected from yourself or your partner. Some women experience postpartum depression symptoms, postpartum anxiety symptoms, intrusive thoughts, postpartum mood swings, or sadness that does not lift the way they expected after birth. Through postpartum therapy, I support women who are navigating postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, emotional overwhelm, birth trauma, and the many identity changes that can come with motherhood.
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Hormonal and reproductive health challenges can deeply affect emotional well-being. You may be experiencing intense mood changes, anxiety, irritability, depression, brain fog, or frustration connected to PMDD, PCOS, severe PMS, irregular cycles, or fertility-related stress. Hormonal mental health therapy offers space to understand patterns, support emotional regulation, and care for the ways reproductive health challenges can affect mood, relationships, and sense of self.
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Sometimes difficult experiences remain stored in the nervous system long after the event has passed. You may notice ongoing anxiety, emotional triggers, distressing memories, or patterns that feel hard to explain. EMDR and trauma informed therapy can help process overwhelming experiences so they no longer feel as present in everyday life, supporting greater stability, safety, and resilience.
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Structured surrogacy mental health evaluations in California for intended parents and gestational carriers. These consultations support emotional readiness while meeting legal and agency requirements for third-party reproduction
Virtual Therapy Across California
Therapy sessions are offered through secure telehealth, allowing you to access support from the comfort and privacy of your home. Virtual therapy provides flexibility for individuals navigating pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, reproductive health experiences, hormonal mental health concerns, or busy daily schedules. Clients can attend sessions from anywhere within California.
Meet Talor Hawkins, LCSW
Postpartum & Reproductive Mental Health Therapist
Learn more about my background, approach, and work in postpartum and reproductive mental health.
