Opening check-in
Every member briefly shares where they are walking in from this week. No long updates required — a sentence is enough.
Our Approach
Group therapy for the season that is least meant to be done alone.
Pregnancy and postpartum are surrounded by people but are often profoundly lonely on the inside. Group therapy is an intentional, therapist-led, evidence-informed setting where women hear their own internal experience spoken back to them by other women who actually know — and where connection becomes the clinical intervention, not an extra.
What it is
A small, screened, confidential cohort led by a licensed clinician.
Our perinatal groups are intentionally small — typically 6 to 8 women — and are organized by stage and concern. An expecting cohort might focus on prenatal anxiety; a fourth-trimester cohort focuses on the early postpartum reset; a longer-arc cohort sits with women navigating identity and relationship shifts deeper into the first year.
Every member is screened by a licensed clinician before joining. Confidentiality agreements are reviewed at the start of every cohort. Groups meet weekly for 90 minutes at our Pasadena office, with secure telehealth options for select cohorts.
What a session looks like
Structured but never rigid.
The clinician keeps the room safe and the work moving. Members share at the depth they choose. The format gives reliable structure to what can otherwise feel formless during the perinatal year.
Themed clinical material
The clinician offers a piece of perinatal-specific material — sleep, intrusive thoughts, identity, anger, return-to-work — to anchor the conversation.
Open exploration
Members work in real time on what is alive for them, with the clinician guiding pacing and depth. This is where the change happens.
Closing
A brief closing brings the cohort back together before the week. You leave with something to carry, not something heavy.
What it can help with
Where group therapy is often the strongest fit.
Group therapy is particularly well-suited for women whose perinatal experience includes a strong undercurrent of isolation, shame, or "no one understands what I'm carrying." It is also a strong fit for women who learn well from hearing how others articulate experiences they themselves have not yet been able to name.
- Postpartum depression with social withdrawal
- Postpartum anxiety and chronic vigilance
- Prenatal anxiety through pregnancy
- Maternal burnout and depletion
- Identity and relationship shifts in early parenting
- Return-to-work transitions
Related
Other ways we work
Individual Therapy
Weekly one-on-one sessions for issues that need focused attention. Often combined with group.
Couples Counseling
For partners navigating perinatal adjustment together.
Intensive Outpatient (IOP)
For higher-acuity perinatal mental health concerns that need more containment than weekly therapy provides.