Perinatal Mental Health
Outpatient therapy service designed to support individuals and families navigating the emotional complexities of pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood.
Becoming a parent brings profound change — to your body, your emotions, and your sense of self. Therapy can help individuals navigate this complex intersection of body image, identity, and emotional wellbeing throughout pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood.
Coupled with our specialization in eating disorders and disordered eating, we bring a unique lens to understanding how pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and parenting experiences can impact one’s relationship with food and body. Our approach is compassionate, collaborative, and evidence-based — grounded in both professional expertise and personal experience as a mothers. Together, we’ll work toward healing, balance, and self-compassion during this transformative season of life.
Eating Disorders During the Perinatal Phase
The perinatal phase — including pregnancy, postpartum, and the first year after birth — is a uniquely vulnerable and often overlooked time for eating disorder development, recurrence, or intensification.
Common Perinatal Risk Factors:
Rapid and unavoidable body changes
Heightened focus on weight and medical monitoring
Anxiety about fetal health or feeding decisions
Identity shifts related to parenthood
Sleep deprivation and hormonal fluctuations
Pressure to “bounce back” physically after birth
For individuals with a history of eating disorders, pregnancy can reactivate body image distress and control patterns. For others, symptoms may emerge for the first time. Specialized perinatal treatment prioritizes both parental and infant wellbeing, often including collaboration with medical providers and dietitians, and compassionate support through identity and physical transitions. To learn more about Eating Disorders Across the Lifespan, check out our blog!
Therapist Specializing in Perinatal Mental Health and Eating Disorders:
Meet Kelsey Crandall, PLPC
Our therapist, Kelsey Crandall, PLPC, specializes in perinatal mental health, with a clinical focus on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, identity shifts in parenthood, and the intersection of pregnancy and postpartum experiences with body image and eating concerns.
Kelsey has completed specialized training through Postpartum Support International in both Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders and Advanced Psychotherapy for Perinatal Populations. Additionally, her background in eating disorder treatment allows her to offer a nuanced lens for parents whose journey may intensify challenges related to food, body changes, control, and self-compassion. Kelsey's approach is compassionate, collaborative, and evidence-based, grounded in both professional training and lived experience as a parent.