Perinatal is the time during pregnancy and around birth.

Postpartum refers to the period after a baby is born. While it’s often described as the first few weeks or months, many parents experience postpartum changes for a year or longer.

This type of support - Perinatal Mental Health - encompasses both of these periods and much more.

The journey to parenthood can bring joy, grief, fear, tenderness, exhaustion, and overwhelm - often all at once. Many caregivers are surprised by how intense this season feels.

Support during the perinatal and postpartum periods isn’t only for those who are newly pregnant or have just given birth. It’s for anyone navigating the emotional impact of trying to conceive, infertility, pregnancy, birth, loss, or early parenting - at any pace and in any form. It’s for birthing parents and moms, certainly, but it’s also for caregivers, dads, parents by adoption, parents by surrogacy, individuals providing surrogacy, and anyone who has experienced the immensity of this transition and process in life.

Perinatal support is a space to slow down, feel supported, and make sense of what this transition is bringing up for you.

Our work may include:

• Talking through current stressors and emotional experiences

• Gentle, body-aware practices to support regulation and grounding

• Exploring identity shifts and relationship changes

• Discussing avenues for additional support, and learning how to ask for and accept help

• Processing birth or pregnancy experiences at your pace

• Strengthening connection - to yourself and to your baby

Our support is grounded in care for how vulnerable of an experience building your family can be. Tend offers a calm, non-judgmental space where we move at your pace. Our work is collaborative and relationship-centered, with attention to both emotional experiences and how your body responds to stress and change.