perinatal mental health

LKG Psychotherapy & Coaching offers perinatal mental health therapy in Los Angeles and via secure telehealth throughout California, Texas, and Connecticut. The path toward parenthood can be deeply meaningful, and at times unexpectedly tender or overwhelming. Fertility struggles, IVF journeys, pregnancy, and the early months of parenting can stir powerful emotions — hope, grief, uncertainty, joy, and vulnerability — often all at once.

A Thoughtful and Collaborative Approach

Perinatal mental health care honors that each person’s experience is unique. Whether navigating fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, pregnancy loss, or the evolving identity of becoming a parent, therapy invites space to meet these transitions with greater awareness and support.

Therapy may draw from several evidence-based approaches, including:

  • EMDR to help process medical trauma, pregnancy loss, or difficult birth experiences

  • Cognitive and behavioral approaches (ACT, CBT, DBT) to support anxiety, overwhelm, and shifting mood states

  • Insight-oriented psychotherapy to explore identity changes, relationship dynamics, and deeper emotional patterns

  • Practical tools for emotional regulation and self-compassion during times of uncertainty

While therapy can help reduce distressing symptoms, it also supports something more fundamental: cultivating a kinder relationship with oneself while navigating the profound transitions of this life stage.

Who This Work Is For

Perinatal mental health therapy may be helpful for individuals who:

  • are navigating infertility, fertility challenges, IVF, or other assisted reproductive journeys

  • are exploring family-building through egg or sperm donation, surrogacy, or other third-party reproduction

  • feel anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally tender during pregnancy or the postpartum period

  • are processing pregnancy loss or complicated reproductive experiences

  • are adjusting to identity shifts and relationship changes that can accompany becoming a parent

  • are seeking greater steadiness, support, and self-compassion during this transition

Fertility Journeys, IVF, and surrogacy

For many individuals and couples, the path toward parenthood includes infertility, IVF treatment, or other forms of assisted reproduction. These experiences often unfold over time — through consultations, medical procedures, waiting periods, and difficult decisions — and can carry a significant emotional toll.

Therapy offers a space to process the realities of fertility treatment, including the uncertainty between IVF cycles, the impact of repeated medical interventions, and the complex emotions that can arise along the way. Some clients are also exploring family-building through egg or sperm donation, surrogacy, or other forms of third-party reproduction. Therapy can help individuals and couples navigate these decisions, tend to grief or disappointment when it arises, and remain connected to themselves and their relationships throughout the process.