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perinatal, maternal, & IVF therapy

Are you carrying anxiety, grief, guilt, or emotional exhaustion through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, or the transition into motherhood?

therapists for perinatal & maternal

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Intentional Therapy Lead Clinician Ayesha Youngblood, serving clients virtually across Texas

Ayesha Youngblood, M.A., LPC | Lead Clinician

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You May Be Carrying More Than People Realize

  • Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally exhausted during pregnancy, postpartum, or early parenting

  • Struggling with identity shifts, loss of control, or feeling disconnected from yourself

  • Experiencing guilt, shame, or pressure to “enjoy every moment” while silently struggling

  • Feeling unsupported as you navigate physical, emotional, and relational changes

Therapy Can Support You Through This Transition

  • Provide a safe, nonjudgmental space to process pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting emotions

  • Help you manage anxiety, mood changes, and overwhelming thoughts with practical coping tools

  • Support identity integration as you move through major life and role transitions

  • Strengthen self-compassion, resilience, and emotional grounding during this season of change

You deserve care, too.

Perinatal and maternal mental health therapy offers space for the parts of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood that are often difficult to say aloud.

Intentional Therapy provides culturally responsive virtual therapy in Houston and throughout Texas and Florida. Your experience does not have to look like anyone else’s to deserve care.

You can love your family and still need room for yourself.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • Perinatal mental health therapy supports emotional well-being before, during, and after pregnancy. It may address fertility challenges, pregnancy anxiety, loss, birth trauma, postpartum changes, identity shifts, and early parenthood.

  • No. Therapy may be helpful while trying to conceive, navigating infertility or IVF, during pregnancy, after pregnancy loss, following birth, or at any point during the transition into parenthood.

  • Therapy can provide space to process grief, fear, anger, disconnection, and other emotional responses following pregnancy loss, a difficult delivery, medical complications, or a birth experience that felt frightening or disempowering.

  • Yes. Intentional Therapy offers virtual perinatal and maternal mental health therapy for clients in Houston and throughout Texas and Florida.