Specialty
Matrescence and Identity Shift
Matrescence is the developmental shift into motherhood. If you built a strong professional identity first, it can feel disorienting.
You spent years becoming someone: a physician, an attorney, an executive, a therapist. Then you became a mother, and the person you built no longer fits the same way.
What This Shift Can Bring Up
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Grief for parts of your former life or self, alongside genuine love for your child
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Resentment that surprises you, followed by guilt about the resentment
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A sense of having lost your edge, your sharpness, your sense of competence
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Difficulty answering the question of who you are now, outside of your roles
You can love your child and still grieve who you were.
How I Work
Internal Family Systems is especially suited to this work. It lets us talk to the part of you that misses your old life and the part of you that's fully in this new one, without forcing you to choose. Somatic work helps with the physical exhaustion that often comes with this shift.
Who I See
Professional women in the first years of motherhood who feel unrecognizable to themselves and want language and support for the change, not reassurance that it will pass.
Talk Through This Shift
Book a free consultation to see if this is the right support.