I’m here with you.

At Hopeful Core Therapy, I offer specialized therapy and consultation services for individuals, couples, and professionals navigating fertility, parenthood, and clinical growth.

Please feel free to view more information about the services I provide below:

  • One-on-one therapy for emotional wellness, parenthood, and identity.

    • Perinatal mental health therapy: support before, during, and after pregnancy

    • Fertility counseling and therapy for IVF, IUI, and pregnancy loss

    • Therapy for postpartum depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or birth trauma

    • Support for adult ADHD, burnout, and the mental load of parenting

    • Identity work and emotional care through big life transitions

    • Trauma-informed, compassionate care—offered in-person (baby-friendly!) and online

    • Serving therapy clients in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, and Florida

  • Strengthening relationships through parenting, fertility, and change.

    • Couples therapy for new and expecting parents

    • Reconnecting emotionally and improving communication

    • Navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, or IVF together

    • Managing conflict, intimacy changes, or shifting roles postpartum

    • Inclusive care for LGBTQIA+ couples and all family structures

  • Emotional support and planning during fertility treatments.

    • Support for individuals and couples navigating IVF, IUI, or egg retrieval

    • Coping tools for stress, waiting, and medical overwhelm

    • Guidance to process past fertility experiences or losses

    • Coaching-style sessions that blend structure with emotional care

    • Grounding strategies before, during, and after treatment cycles

  • Compassionate assessments for intended parents, donors, and surrogates.

    • Psychological evaluations for egg donors, sperm donors, and gestational carriers

    • Evaluations for intended parents using donor conception or surrogacy

    • Embryo donation counseling and readiness assessments

    • Clinically sound, timely reports provided for fertility clinics

    • Thoughtful exploration of motivations, expectations, and emotional preparedness

  • Supportive, trauma-informed supervision for social workers.

    • Individual and dyadic clinical supervision for LMSWs and grad students in Maryland

    • Specialties: perinatal mental health, trauma, reproductive counseling

    • Case consultation, ethics, self-of-the-therapist exploration

    • Supervision for therapists seeking support in private practice or agency work

    • Encouraging, thoughtful space to grow clinical confidence

Perinatal, Pregnancy & Postpartum Mental Health

Individual and couples therapy for anxiety, identity shifts, and emotional overwhelm during the parenting transition.

Teens & Emerging Adults

Therapy for adolescents and young adults exploring anxiety, identity, school pressure, and life transitions.

Infertility & Loss

Supportive space to navigate fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, and grief—without judgment, as an individual, or together with your partner through therapy or cycle coaching services.

Life Transitions

Therapy for burnout, caregiving stress, career shifts, or simply feeling not like yourself.

Specialties

Support for Neurodivergent Moms & Highly Sensitive Parents

Individual therapy for ADHD, sensory overload, emotional dysregulation, and overstimulation in parenthood.

Clinical Supervision

Reflective, trauma-informed supervision for early-career clinicians or those specializing in perinatal mental health.