Companioning for pregnancy
Pregnancy is a time of enormous personal transformation. Your life, body, and spirit are rapidly growing and evolving to make space for new life.
Amid the ultrasounds, appointments, and preparations, pregnancy can stir profound questions about identity, purpose, trust, and transformation.This is a threshold time: sacred, tender, and sometimes overwhelming. It is also a time of preparation: both outer preparation as you prepare your home, work, and life for a new baby, and inner preparation as you navigate hopes, fears, and new questions, stories, beliefs, and identity.I offer space to slow down, reflect, and receive compassionate support for the journey of pregnancy. Whether this is your first child or your fifth, whether this pregnancy has come easily or after difficulty, you deserve care for your whole self—body, mind, and spirit.
As a perinatal chaplain, I offer both practical and emotional support for pregnancy and preparing for postpartum.
Depending on your needs, support may look like:
Hands-on support in crafting a birth or postpartum care plan
Spiritual and emotional support as you navigate the joys and challenges of pregnancy
A space to reflect on your transition to motherhood and what it means for your identity
Thoughtful conversation and discernment around maternity leave, vocation, or possible career changes
A supportive and non-judgmental place to talk through your fears and concerns about birth, parenting, or changes to your life and relationships
Support processing medical decisions, unexpected diagnoses, or high-risk classification
Dealing with concerns of bias from your medical team
Support in connecting with your baby and your body
A spiritual conversation partner as you prepare for labor, birth, and postpartum
I use a number of tools for pregnancy support, including somatic movement, breath exercises, grounding techniques, story work, and therapeutic art techniques.
How do I know if this is right for me?
Companioning is for you if you're pregnant and want more than just checklists and medical advice—you want to feel emotionally and spiritually grounded as you undertake the inner work of transitioning to motherhood.
You might be feeling joy, anxiety, overwhelm, or all of the above.
You might be wrestling with questions about your identity, relationships, or career.
You might be facing a medically complex pregnancy, or navigating unexpected decisions.
You may feel isolated—even with a great care team—because you’re being trated first as a body, and not a person.
Whether you’re early in pregnancy or approaching birth, confident or uncertain, you and your story are welcome here.
This is a space to be heard, held, and reminded that you don’t have to carry it all alone.
Book a connection call.
I offer a free, thirty-minute connection call to those considering companion care. We’ll talk about your journey so far, uncover the questions you’re grappling with, and see if my approach is the right fit for you.