Hi guys welcome back to preview alliance this is Sarah and Whitney and once again we're here to support you guys through your pregnancy and post-prime journey and give you all the details that we wish we would have had going through it ourselves.

Absolutely. So Whitney, yes today. that we wish we would have had going through it ourselves absolutely so Whitney

today let's talk about therapy okay so obviously I'm a big advocate of therapy

I am a therapist myself and I do have a niche as far as like maternal mental health

therapy. That's really where my training has come from. I worked in a labor

and delivery setting for nine years total between two different hospitals. Therapy is, you just

need to know this mama's, it is non-judgmental, judgment-free zone, and it's

there to help you navigate what you're experiencing.

Everybody at some point in time experiences some form of anxiety, depression, potentially some

OCD, intrusive thoughts, things like that.

So therapy is they are not only to kind of normalize what you're experiencing, but helping

you get the tools that you need to progress through that and to be

successful and to thrive when you're done with that. So just know that therapy is

going to be a place where you should feel comfortable and you should feel welcome there.

If at any point in time you're meeting with a therapist and you feel like it's not a good fit,

or you feel like they're shaming you, or you just feel like they don't really get where you're

coming from you're allowed to choose a different therapist. That is not a bad

thing until all of my clients if you don't feel like this is a good fit, that is perfectly fun for you to find

somebody that is a good fit for you.

So just know as a therapist, we're not going to take that personal.

We don't feel like you're upset with us or angry with us. We want you to get the help that is the best fit for you.

So just know when I do see a mama for therapy, regardless of where she's at timeline- in her postpartum journey, we talk about what she is experiencing.

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