The perinatal period; trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, and the early years, can be one of the most significant and potentially vulnerable times in a person's life. It can also be one of the loneliest, particularly when the reality doesn't match what you expected, or what everyone around you seems to be experiencing. Claire works with individuals, and with couples where relationship dynamics are part of the picture, navigating the full emotional range of this life stage, including anxiety, depression, pregnancy and birth complications, perinatal OCD, adjustment to new parenthood, early parenting challenges, and the feelings that are hard to admit to. 

She also works with people navigating the less straightforward paths to parenthood, including fertility treatment, donor conception, surrogacy, and families of all configurations, where the emotional terrain is often complex and generic support falls short. 

The experience of the non-birthing parent is often overlooked in conversations about perinatal mental health and the transition to parenthood, and yet the adjustment, the identity shift, the relational changes, and the emotional weight of this period are real and significant regardless of how you came to parenthood. Partners, co-parents, adoptive parents, and others who are not the birthing person are equally welcome here. You don't need to have carried a pregnancy to find this work relevant, and you don't need to be struggling visibly to deserve support.

However you arrived at this stage of life, and however it's actually going, this is a space to talk about it honestly.