Perinatal Psychology

At MIWM, our perinatal mental health team includes perinatal psychologists, a clinical psychologist, and a mental health nurse practitioner. We provide integrated, compassionate care for individuals and couples who are planning or trying to conceive, navigating pregnancy, or adjusting to life with a new baby.

This stage of life can be meaningful, complex, and at times overwhelming. We offer a supportive space to help you make sense of your experience, navigate challenges, and feel more confident in yourself and your relationships.

We support a range of perinatal mental health concerns, including antenatal and postnatal anxiety and depression, birth trauma, fertility challenges, assisted conception, and experiences of grief and loss, including miscarriage and infant loss. We also work with parents experiencing difficulties with bonding, heightened stress, relationship strain, or the identity changes that often accompany matrescence and patrescence.

Our multidisciplinary team allows us to offer a more comprehensive approach to care. This may include psychological therapy, as well as assessment, care planning, and additional support where presentations are more complex or require a more integrated approach.

Our work is grounded in attachment and relational frameworks, recognising that wellbeing is closely connected to your relationship with your baby, your partner, and yourself. Therapy is tailored to your needs and may draw on evidence-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotion-Focused Therapy, mindfulness-based practices, and trauma-informed modalities.

Babies are always welcome in session.

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Not sure who to see..

Finding the right support matters, and we’re here to make that process feel as simple as possible. Our team brings together different areas of expertise, allowing us to match you with the clinician who best fits your needs and preferences.

  • Lauren supports women and couples across fertility, pregnancy, and early parenting, with a focus on emotional wellbeing, adjustment to parenthood, and relationship dynamics. Her work is grounded in attachment and relational approaches, supporting parents to feel more confident and connected in themselves and with their baby.

  • Pree works with parents navigating anxiety, mood changes, and the emotional shifts that can come with the perinatal period. She has a particular interest in early relational health and parent–infant bonding, and also supports individuals experiencing eating disorders and body image concerns during pregnancy and postpartum.

  • Isabella offers warm, thoughtful support across a range of emotional experiences, including anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her approach is collaborative and evidence-based, with a focus on helping individuals develop insight, resilience, and meaningful change.

  • Louisa offers supportive individual therapy to expectant and new parents experiencing grief and loss, antenatal/postnatal anxiety and depression, birth trauma and birth experiences that feel difficult to process, adjustment to parenthood and changing family relationships, relationship difficulties, the resurfacing of your own difficult feelings, beliefs, or childhood experiences during the transition to parenthood.

  • Emily provides a holistic and integrated approach to care, combining psychological support with comprehensive mental health assessment and care planning. She works across the perinatal period and can support those who may benefit from a coordinated approach that brings together psychological and medical perspectives.