Conditions Treated

If you are pregnant, postpartum, or somewhere in early parenthood and something feels off, you are in the right place.

Root + Rise is a perinatal mental health practice. We work with the emotional and psychological experiences that pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood often bring up but rarely prepare us for. What you are going through does not need to have a clinical name. We can still help.

Who we work with

We support birthing parents, partners, and families through every stage of the perinatal experience: trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, and the months and years that follow. You do not need a diagnosis, a referral, or a “good enough” reason to reach out. If something is harder than you expected, we would like to hear about it.

What we treat

Below are the experiences we work with most often. They are grouped to give you a starting point. Most of our clients overlap categories, and you do not need to pick the “right” one before reaching out.

Perinatal Mental Health Support

Therapy and support during pregnancy and postpartum, with or without a diagnosis. Root + Rise works with stress, overwhelm, subclinical anxiety and low mood, and the simple need to process becoming a parent.

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs)

PMADs are the most common medical complications of pregnancy and postpartum, and the most treatable. Root + Rise treats all 10 PMAD presentations including PPD, postpartum anxiety, OCD, and birth trauma.

Birth Trauma & NICU Therapy

Therapy for birth trauma and NICU experience, whether your birth was last month or years ago. Root + Rise specializes in trauma-informed perinatal mental health care.

Matrescence Therapy & Identity Support

Matrescence is the developmental transition into parenthood. Root + Rise offers therapy for parental burnout, return-to-work anxiety, and the identity shifts of becoming a parent.

Family & Partner Perinatal Support

Perinatal mental health care for partners, non-birthing parents, and couples. Root + Rise treats paternal postpartum depression, relationship strain after baby, and bonding difficulties.

How we work

Root + Rise is a full-spectrum perinatal mental health practice. The right care for you might be one of these, or a combination, adjusted as you go.

Individual therapy. One-on-one sessions with a perinatal-trained clinician.
Group therapy. Facilitated groups where peer recognition itself is part of the work.
Day treatment. Intensive, structured care for parents who need more than weekly therapy.
Medication management. Perinatal-informed prescribing, including during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Holistic and integrative care. Mind-body approaches that complement clinical treatment.
Partner and family support. Couples sessions, family sessions, and partner-inclusive individual work.
On-site infant-inclusive care. Your baby is welcome in the room. We built the practice for that.

Not sure if this is for you?

Most of our clients second-guess whether their experience is “bad enough” to come in. Usually, it is. A short list to consider:

It has been more than two weeks and the difficult feelings have not lifted.
You are avoiding things you used to enjoy, or hiding how you are really feeling from the people closest to you.
You are having thoughts that scare you.
A partner, family member, or close friend has expressed concern.
You are functioning, but the inside does not match the outside.

If any of these resonate, a 15-minute consult costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We can take it from there together.

What to expect when you reach out

Most people who book a consult are anxious about doing it. Here is what happens, so there are no surprises.

The free 15-minute consult. A short conversation to hear what brought you here and figure out whether we are a good fit. No pressure, no diagnosis, no commitment.
Intake session. A longer first appointment to understand your history, your hopes for treatment, and what is going on right now. We build a starting plan together.
Your first regular session. Treatment begins, typically weekly to start. We adjust the cadence and approach as you go.