Welcome to Healing Pineapple Therapy, PLLC
Parenting Support & Adjusting to Motherhood
Becoming a mother is about more than learning how to care for a baby—you’re changing, too.
The transition into parenthood can bring changes to your identity, relationships, routines, priorities, and sense of self. Even when motherhood is something you deeply wanted and prepared for, adjusting to the reality of caring for a child while balancing relationships, work, family, and your own needs can feel overwhelming.
At Healing Pineapple Therapy, PLLC, parenting support is about more than solving parenting challenges. We help mothers and couples prepare for parenthood, strengthen family relationships, better understand their children, and navigate the emotional transition into motherhood with greater confidence and connection.
4th Trimester & Postpartum Care Planning
We spend so much time preparing for pregnancy, birth, and baby—but often much less time preparing for what life will actually look like once baby comes home.
Healing Pineapple Therapy offers 4th trimester and postpartum planning for individuals and couples who want to feel more prepared for the emotional, relational, and practical transition into parenthood.
Through a few focused sessions, we’ll talk through expectations, couples communication, division of responsibilities and the mental load, boundaries with family, individual needs, and how you can support one another when sleep is limited and everyone is adjusting.
The goal isn’t to create the “perfect” postpartum plan. It’s to start important conversations before you’re exhausted and overwhelmed, identify where you may need additional support, and create a realistic plan that helps you enter the fourth trimester feeling more connected and prepared to work as a team.
And support doesn’t have to end once baby arrives.
Healing Pineapple Therapy offers 4th trimester and postpartum planning for individuals and couples who want to feel more prepared for the emotional and practical transition into parenthood. Through a few focused sessions, we can explore expectations, couples communication, division of responsibilities and the mental load, boundaries with family, individual needs, and how you will support one another when you're both tired and adjusting.
Rather than trying to create the “perfect” postpartum plan, we'll create a realistic framework that helps you enter the fourth trimester with stronger communication, shared expectations, and a plan for working together as a team.
Even the best postpartum plan may need to change once you’re actually living it. Needs shift, routines change, unexpected challenges come up, and sometimes the support you thought you would have looks different than expected.
Healing Pineapple Therapy also offers Postpartum Care Management for families who would like continued support navigating their evolving needs, adjusting their postpartum plan, connecting with helpful resources and providers, and finding their footing during the fourth trimester.
Parenting Support & Building Connection
There is no shortage of advice telling parents what they should be doing. Sometimes what you really need is help understanding your child and your relationship with them.
With a professional background in Infant and Child Mental Health and therapeutic parenting support, I help parents better understand child development, attachment, emotional regulation, temperament, and the needs that may be underneath a child's behavior.
Together, we can identify parenting strategies that support a secure parent-child relationship while considering your child's developmental needs, your parenting values, and the realities of your family. The goal isn't perfect parenting—it's greater understanding, connection, and confidence in the parent you are becoming.
Matrescence, Identity & Self-Care
You can love being a mother and still miss parts of who you were before.
Matrescence is the physical, emotional, psychological, and social transition of becoming a mother. Motherhood can reshape your identity, relationships, priorities, career, body, and how you see yourself—and adjusting to those changes takes time.
You may love your child deeply while also feeling overwhelmed by the mental load, guilty for wanting time to yourself, disconnected from things you once enjoyed, or unsure of who you are outside of being “Mom.” These feelings don't automatically mean something is wrong or that you have a postpartum mental health disorder. Sometimes you're adjusting to one of life's biggest identity transitions.
Therapy can provide space to explore who you are becoming, reconnect with parts of yourself that matter to you, communicate your needs, establish boundaries, and make room for your own well-being alongside caring for your family.
