Trauma-Informed Healing

Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health Support

Pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood crack us open. Sometimes what emerges is joy. Sometimes it's grief, anxiety, shame, or a complicated mix. All of it deserves witnessing.

Sweetnam Psychology offers perinatal and postpartum mental health support in person across the Gold Coast and Tweed Coast, and via telehealth psychology sessions Australia wide.

Recognising the Signs

You might be here if…

Perinatal and postpartum therapy supports you through the profound transition of becoming a parent. You may be here if you're planning pregnancy, navigating infertility, adjusting to new parenthood, or working through postpartum struggles.

Postpartum anxiety or postpartum depression

PPD and PPA are real, treatable conditions. You don't have to suffer through this alone.

Pregnancy or birth activated old wounds

Trauma, loss, or complicated family history can surface during this tender time.

Identity is shifting and grieving

Becoming a parent is profound. It's okay to grieve what was while embracing what is.

Navigating infertility or reproductive loss

These experiences carry weight. Your grief and disappointment deserve space and support.

Seeking traditional in clinic therapy has become nearly impossible

It’s hard to get out of the house and get anywhere, let alone get somewhere on time for an appointment. I offer the unique option of coming to your home to take the pressure off.

Understanding the Method

Honouring your transition

The transition into parenthood can awaken some of the most confronting parts of our internal world. This time in our lives can hold profound love and piercing loneliness; deep gratitude and resentment; boundless joy and extraordinary rage. Some parents find themselves both fiercely protective of their baby and utterly lost to themselves. Others find that intimate connection they envisioned having with their baby isn’t instant, leading to questions about their new role as a parent. These experiences aren’t signs of failure. They’re common, and they’re signs of the depth and complexity of what you’re living through.

In our work together, we make space for all of it: the endless exhaustion, the guilt that lingers, the quiet grief for who you used to be, and the frustration that no one seems to understand. '

I’m knowledgeable about postpartum mood disorders, trauma-informed around birth experiences, and skilled at supporting the often-invisible struggles of new parenthood.

The Transformation

How therapy helps

Support during this transition can transform your experience of early parenthood and your relationship to yourself.

  • You can feel better. PPD/PPA is treatable, and therapy is a crucial part of recovery.


  • If birth was traumatic or disappointing, I help you process it and reclaim agency.

  • New parenthood tests relationships. I help you stay connected through the chaos.

  • You belong in this role. Therapy quiets the critic and amplifies your wisdom.

Take The Next Step

I can be your village


This transition deserves support. Whether struggling or wanting space to process, I’m here to witness your journey.

Schedule a consultation