Individual Therapy

Rooted support offers sessions for couples and individuals. Your sessions can be structured (see: Therapies section) if you know what kind of therapy you are looking for. They can also be unstructured and your therapist can support you in unravelling what you’re experiencing. People often seek therapy for insight, understanding, being heard, goals for change, treatment for a mental health illness, new ways of coping or for understanding how to be in better relationships with the people in their lives.

Rooted Support specializes in seeing people with:

• Postpartum Depression and Anxiety (including OCD)
• Depression or Anxiety in Pregnancy
• Anxiety and Worry
• Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Birth Trauma
• Postpartum Rage
• Emotion Dysregulation
• Relationship Issues
• Adjustment to Parenthood
• Postpartum Loss and Grief
• Conflict with In-Laws
• Difficulty Coping

• Feeling like our bodies don’t do what they’re ‘supposed to do’ such as conceive, give birth vaginally or breastfeed.
• Go into a kind of “survival fog” and struggle to figure out how to feel normal again.
• Delivery is often traumatic.
• Experience sleep deprivation as intense, confusing and/or debilitating.
• Emotions often become more intense and quicker.
• Feelings towards a newborn can be unexpected.
• We lose and gain parts of ourselves.
• Our relationships are brought into focus. Relationships with partners, mothers and other family or extended family members.
• We experience profound changes in our physical bodies and hormones.
• Change can trigger pre-existing concerns including depression, anxiety or trauma.
• Lifestyle change can take away a number of our previous coping strategies.
• Judgement and societal norms impact how we experience becoming parents.
• The sense of responsibility can be overwhelming.
• We talk ourselves out of needing help because “it will get better when…”