Person Centred Post-Natal Depression (Post-Partum) Counselling
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Post-Natal Depression (Post-Partum) Counselling

Pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year after having a baby can be both an exciting and scary time.

With as many as one in five women developing a mental illness during pregnancy or in the first year after birth, it’s important to normalise asking for help and support.

Feeling anxious about your baby’s health, the birth and your ability as a parent are all perfectly natural. However, if feelings of anxiety begin to get in the way of your happiness or start to affect your day-to-day life, it can be a sign that you need help.

Typical Symptoms

Feeling sad, low in mood or tearful much of the time
Feeling irritable towards your partner, baby, or other children
Loss of interest in the world around you
Lack of energy and feeling tired all the time
Feelings of guilt, hopelessness, and self-blame
Feeling anxious constantly or about non-specific things

Trouble sleeping at night, you may be awake even when your baby is sleeping
Feeling very sleepy during the day
Feeling anxious that something bad may happen to your baby
Problems Bonding With Your Baby
Feeling on-edge all the time
Panic Attacks

No sense of enjoyment in being with them
Problems concentrating and making decisions (comfort eating)
Feeling agitated or irritable with negative thoughts such as feeling you are not a good enough mother, you are unable to look after your baby, or your baby does not love you
Avoiding people or certain situations
Difficulty concentrating

When is the right time to seek help?

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Rainer

Rainer moved to the UK over 50 years ago, he has been married for 55 years. He is a qualified engineer and has studied several models of psychotherapy.

The need to help people spurred him on to enter the counselling profession. More Info >

Faith

Faith is a qualified counsellor and uses person-centred therapy in online sessions. Faith lives in the Wigan area.

Any work will be confidential, and Faith will build a trusting and safe environment for you to explore any issues and needs you have. More Info >

What our clients say.

” Rainer was a great help in listening to what I had to say, and then, gradually, his comments and prompts guided me to a fair amount of self reflection which helped me to realise that there are always other angles and perspectives to our ‘problems’, and that it was within me, myself, to reflect on and identify and choose to adjust my approach to things and choose ‘positive’ options rather than negative ones that may have become bad habits, which we have probably developed from a ‘tunnelled vision’ perspective. All of this has helped me to get less anxious and stressed with ‘life situations’ and to manage them in a more positive way. “