Therapy for Postpartum
Anxiety and OCD
You’ve been living each day with a sense of fear shadowing over you during the time you are supposed to be living in baby bliss. Your chest is tight and you’re listening for every sound your baby makes. Analyzing every shift in their breathing.
Your brain has been playing out scenes you never asked for and never thought you’d imagine. You see yourself dropping your baby down the stairs. You feel the urge to step back from balconies because your mind whispers that you could somehow drop or throw them over. You’re hesitant to let anyone else drive with your baby in the car because you imagine a car crash every time. You’ve been picturing your partner tripping, falling, and dropping your baby. You sit at a stoplight and picture someone smashing your window and taking your baby from your arms.
These thoughts slam into your mind without warning, without permission, and without logic. You hate them. You are terrified by them. They make no logical sense. And yet you cannot make them stop.
You are living in a body that does not feel safe. You are carrying the belief that everything depends on you. That if you miss one detail, one sound, one instinct, your baby will be hurt. That if you relax even for a second, something irreversible will happen.
You feel paralyzed. You feel trapped. You feel like you cannot trust anyone, even the people you love most. Not because you do not love them, but because your brain tells you that trusting them is dangerous. It tells you that only you can keep your baby alive. Only you can prevent tragedy. Only you can control the outcome.
This is not weakness. This is not failure. This is postpartum anxiety and postpartum OCD.
And it is not your fault.
What We Will Do
Treatment for postpartum anxiety and OCD is active, collaborative, and focused on helping you feel safer in your mind, your body, and in your role as a parent. You will learn practical real-world skills you can use in the middle of real life with a newborn in your arms.
In our work together, you’ll come to understand what’s happening in your brain and nervous system so your experiences feels less scary and less isolating. We’ll look at how anxiety and intrusive thoughts show up during everyday parenting moments — feeding your baby, putting them down to sleep, bathing them, leaving the house, or simply trying to rest. You’ll learn how to respond to these thoughts in ways that reduce their power, rather than letting them dictate how you care for yourself or your baby.
For OCD, we’ll gently and gradually work on reducing avoidance and safety behaviors that take over parenting routines. Things like repeated checking, seeking reassurance, mentally reviewing your actions, or avoiding certain things out of fear. We do this carefully and compassionately to help your brain learn that you and your baby can be safe without anxiety or intrusive thoughts and images running the show.
You will learn how to rebuild trust in your body, your instincts, and your ability to handle uncertainty — especially while sleep-deprived, hormonal, and adjusting to your brand-new identity. You will start to feel present, steady, and connected so you experience more peace and confidence in your relationship with your baby.
Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway.
Help Can Start Now
With the right support, this stops running your life now. The thoughts become quieter. The images lose their intensity. The urgency fades. You stop scanning every second. You stop bracing for impact. You start breathing without holding your body rigid. You sleep without replaying the worst-case scenarios. You hand your baby to someone you trust without your entire nervous system screaming.
You feel grounded again. You feel capable. You feel connected instead of consumed.
You begin to trust yourself. Your instincts. Your body. Your ability to protect and love your baby without living in fear.
You do not have to live in survival mode. You are not broken. You are not dangerous.
If this feels like your life, reach out. Schedule a consultation. Start the conversation. You deserve support, relief, and a version of motherhood that does not feel like a never-ending emergency.