The path to parenthood can look different than we imagined.
Pregnancy, postpartum, and the transition into parenthood can bring unexpected emotional challenges. Many individuals and families experience anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, grief, or trauma related to fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, birth, or identity changes. These experiences are common—and they are treatable.
At Atlanta Counseling Collective, we specialize in perinatal mental health care for individuals and families navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. Our clinicians are trained through Postpartum Support International and provide evidence-based treatment tailored to the unique emotional and physical demands of this stage of life.
We support clients experiencing a wide range of perinatal mental health concerns, including:
• Infertility-related stress, grief, and decision-making
• Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and stillbirth
• Pregnancy after loss or infertility
• Postpartum depression
• Postpartum anxiety
• Intrusive or obsessive thoughts
• Birth-related or medical trauma
• Adjustment to parenthood and identity changes
• Emotional overwhelm, guilt, or shame during the perinatal period
Our clinicians use research-backed approaches that may include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for mood and anxiety concerns, inference-based CBT (iCBT) for intrusive or obsessive thoughts, and EMDR for trauma related to fertility experiences, pregnancy loss, birth, or prior experiences that resurface during the perinatal period.
Sounds familiar?
• You’re navigating infertility and feel emotionally exhausted, stuck, or isolated
• You’ve experienced a miscarriage or pregnancy loss and feel overwhelmed by grief, anger, or numbness
• You’re pregnant again after loss and feel more anxious than excited
• You feel constantly on edge or worried something bad will happen
• You’re having intrusive thoughts that feel upsetting or out of character
• You don’t feel like yourself during pregnancy or after having a baby
• You experienced a difficult or traumatic birth and can’t stop replaying it
• You’re overwhelmed by guilt, self-doubt, or fear of “getting it wrong”
• You’re wondering if what you’re feeling is normal—or if something is wrong