In-person therapy for California moms who are holding it all together and absolutely exhausted by it

A Burbank, CA practice offering postpartum support and therapy for motherhood — so you leave feeling more regulated, more prepared for the inevitable chaos, and fuller than when you walked in.

(And yes, virtual is an option too, because LA traffic is its own mental health event.)

A woman with light brown hair sitting on a black stool against a plain white background. She is wearing a light pink long-sleeve shirt, brown high-waisted pants, white sneakers, and jewelry. She is touching her hair and looking to her left.

You were the one who had a plan.

The career, the house, the relationship, the timeline. You built a life you were proud of. You’re great at your job, you had things you loved outside of work, you knew who you were and what you wanted.

So you thought motherhood would be the same.

But when it came, it rearranged everything. Not in a bad way, necessarily. In a ‘this is the most love I have ever felt and also I genuinely do not recognize my own life right now’ kind of way. And instead of feeling that deep sense of purpose and fulfillment that you thought you would, you just feel lost.

The version of you that had it figured out isn’t gone.

She's just buried under one too many days of carrying the mental load, sleep deprivation, and the impossible pressure to be perfect at all of it. And she's waiting for someone to finally give her permission to come up for air.

MEET YOUR MOTHERHOOD THERAPIST

That someone is me. And I’ve been exactly where you are.

Hi, I’m Gina — licensed therapist, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional (PMH-C), twin mom, NICU survivor, and also an anxious high-achiever who learned the hard way that you absolutely cannot journal your way out of postpartum anxiety.

A woman with shoulder-length wavy blonde hair, smiling, wearing a light pink long-sleeve top and black pants, sitting with one leg crossed and her hands resting on her knee, against a plain off-white background.

I work with moms who look like they have it together.

The one’s nobody’s worried about because they’re so capable. The ones who convince themselves they should be able to handle this. The ones who wait too long because they're not sure they're "bad enough" to need support.

I built this practice for her. Which means I built it for you.

I’m genuinely, deeply committed to helping you find your footing again as a more grounded, regulated, confident version of the great mom that you already are.

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Come in person. Or don't leave your couch. Either works

I have a therapy office in Burbank where you can come sit, talk, breathe, vent, cry, and set it all down in a kid-free space that’s quiet enough that you can finally think clearly for the first time in a long time.

Those fifty minutes belong entirely to you, with someone who is genuinely, completely listening. And not needing anything from you but honesty.

IRL THERAPY

If you're in the Burbank area — or Glendale, Pasadena, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Sherman Oaks, or Los Feliz — in-person sessions are available and I would love to meet you IRL.

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VIRTUAL TELEHEALTH

If you’re more of a "therapy from my car in the Target parking lot" person, virtual sessions are available for moms anywhere in California.

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This is for you if any of this sounds familiar

  • You wake up already exhausted before the day has even started.

  • You love your baby more than you knew was possible, and you're also counting down to bedtime by 10am.

  • You used to be the most decisive person in the room and now you second-guess everything (including whether you're second-guessing too much).

  • You snap and immediately spiral about the snapping.

  • You cry in the car and then pull it together before you walk inside because nobody can know you’re not perfectly juggling it all.

  • You’re exhausted and dragging all day, then wired all night, making you dread how you’ll feel tomorrow before yesterday even ends.

  • You miss the version of yourself that had hobbies, energy, and a sense of direction.

  • You're back at work or about to go back and you have no idea who you are in that role anymore.

  • You feel guilty for struggling when you know how lucky you are.

  • You feel guilty for feeling guilty.

  • You're tired of feeling like this and you're even more tired of pretending you're not.

You don't have to check every box to “deserve” therapy. One is enough.

Here’s what motherhood therapy with me looks like:

A woman sits on a tan leather couch with her legs crossed, smiling at the camera. She has shoulder-length blonde hair and is wearing a plaid blazer, a black top, and dark blue jeans. A pillow is next to her on the couch. In front of her, there is a wooden coffee table cluttered with books, some stacked and some scattered, with titles visible on the spines. To her left, there is a small round wooden side table with black metal legs, holding more books. The background features a gray wall, and the floor has a patterned rug.

We start with the whole picture. To best support you, I need to know what's hard right now, how you got here, your history, your birth experience, your pre-baby identity, your relationships, your nervous system, your support system (or the one you wish you had) — all of it. We build that map together in our first couple of sessions so that everything we do in therapy is rooted in your specific story.

From there, we work at your pace on what's actually driving how you feel. My approach is nervous system informed, which means we go beyond talking about your feelings to look at why your body is stuck in fight-or-flight even on a "good" day. Then we build real, practical tools you can actually use in your real life, whether you only get approximately 6 minutes to yourself in a day or haven’t slept more than 5 hours a night in months.

No matter how confused, lonely, scared, or blue you feel before our session, I promise you’ll leave feeling lighter, fuller, and more prepared to handle the beautiful (and still overwhelming) chaos that is motherhood.

We start with the whole picture. To best support you, I need to know what's hard right now, how you got here, your history, your birth experience, your pre-baby identity, your relationships, your nervous system, your support system (or the one you wish you had) — all of it. We build that map together in our first couple of sessions so that everything we do in therapy is rooted in your specific story.

BOOK A CONSULT

From there, we work at your pace on what's actually driving how you feel. My approach is nervous system informed, which means we go beyond talking about your feelings to look at why your body is stuck in fight-or-flight even on a "good" day. Then we build real, practical tools you can actually use in your real life, whether you only get approximately 6 minutes to yourself in a day or haven’t slept more than 5 hours a night in months.

No matter how confused, lonely, scared, or blue you feel before our session, I promise you’ll leave feeling lighter, fuller, and more prepared to handle the beautiful (and still overwhelming) chaos that is motherhood.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes! I'm in-network with:

    • Optum (United Healthcare, Oscar, Oxford, etc)

    • Aetna

    • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

    • Carelon

    • Quest

    • Regence BlueCross Blue Shield of Utah

    Private pay is $225 per 50-minute session. I can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement if your plan has OON benefits. Limited sliding scale slots are also available, because therapy should be accessible.

    If you aren’t sure what you have, reach out and we'll figure it out together.

  • I help mothers work through postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, mom rage, identity loss, the mental load, and nervous system regulation. 

    My clients are not in crisis, but they are absolutely exhausted, on edge, grieving a version of themselves they can't tap into anymore, and wondering when they're going to stop feeling like life is happening to them. If that sounds like you, book a free, 15-minute phone consultation to start getting the support you need.

  • Both! I offer in-person therapy at my office in Burbank, California. I also offer virtual therapy for moms anywhere in California.

    (And yes, virtual is just as effective. For a lot of moms, it's the reason they were finally able to start.)

Give yourself grace and space, Mama.

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