Refuge Cove Counseling, LLC
 

The journey to and through parenthood is deeply personal, and it does not always unfold the way we imagined and dreamt of. Perinatal mental health challenges can arise in many different seasons: during pregnancy, after birth, following miscarriage or stillbirth, and infant loss, or while navigating fertility challenges. These experiences can bring emotional complexity that is often overlooked or minimized, yet profoundly impacts your well-being, diminishes your divine spark, and swallows you in the storm of grief and loss.

You may be feeling overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or unsure of how to cope with a newborn. You may be carrying the emotional weight of fertility struggles, managing stress during pregnancy, adjusting to the realities and challenges of new parenthood, or healing after loss. Whatever your experience, you deserve support that recognizes the full scope of your story.

Perinatal mental health care provides a space to understand your emotions, strengthen your coping skills, and feel grounded again. Together, we will explore the challenges you’re facing whether those are mood changes, intrusive thoughts, identity shifts, relationship stress, medical trauma, or the emotional impact of reproductive experiences. You will not be told to suck it up and push on; but instead, we will work together to create a plan that helps you feel supported, informed, and empowered.

My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and rooted in evidence-based perinatal care and the companioning model of Dr. Wolfelt for grief work when applicable. This includes understanding how fertility experiences, pregnancy journeys, birth outcomes, and postpartum transitions shape mental health. Whether you are preparing for parenthood, adjusting to life with a new baby, or seeking support after difficult or unexpected outcomes, you do not have to navigate it alone.

You deserve a place, a refuge, where your experiences are validated and your emotional health is prioritized. I am here to walk with you as you find steadiness, resilience, and connection in the season you’re in — and the ones ahead. Together we will find hope, which can be defined by Dr. Wolfelt as the expectation of the good that is yet to come.