You are doing enough.

Support for Parents

Modern parenting is out of balance, and parents need more support. The demands are higher than ever, and the supports are few. We wonder how other people do it and why we are struggling, while wearing ourselves ragged trying to meet unreachable expectations.

Pregnancy, birth, and parenthood comes with intense emotions, utter exhaustion, and overwhelming demands. Parenting pushes us to our limits, and many of us experience unresolved childhood wounds rising to the surface as we learn to parent the children in our care. Isolation, frustration, frightening thoughts and self-doubt are common. With support, you can grow into the parent you want to be, reconnect with your full self, and root yourself in an affirming community.

I specialize in treating anxiety and depression in the reproductive period of life, as well as working with families that have experienced infant loss, including miscarriage, abortion, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), and stillbirth.

I am a parent of two children, and I have personal experience navigating early intervention programs, Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), 504 plans, complex medical procedures and decision-making, and medical trauma.

Reproductive Justice

I specialize in reproductive loss and trauma (miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, abortion, NICU, medical complications) from a reproductive justice lens, which means that I understand my clients in their socio-political context and I center their right to have a child, not to have a child, access the resources to care for their children, and to parent in a safe and healthy environment.

Following the leadership of Black women, reproductive justice centers the experiences of women of color and their sexual, reproductive, economic, and relational well being. Reproductive justice is about body sovereignty in regard to gender expression and reproductive health. It is also about physical, environmental and relational safety, economic resources, access to information, and high quality medical and community care. It is intersectional and aspirational.

In practice, this means that I recognize and name the systems that are impacting my clients, and I move away from focus on individual self-improvement as a universal solution. I invite my clients to explore cultural and ancestral strengths, honor their grief, challenge unrealistic expectations of themselves, and find or create communities of care.

“Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.”

- Jessica Calarco