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How I work..

My Guiding Values and Beliefs

Motherhood and being responsible for the safety, care and development of a child can feel very stressful and trigger all sorts of habitual patterns of managing. Some of these ways of managing are do us and our childen a disservice.

If we act consiously, reflectively and thoughtfully, we can really get through the stress and find our balance. I do not believe this can be done in isolation. Every mother who is experiencing difficulties requires a trusting relationship within which she can freely explore her new experiences and responses. If no frienship, family relationship or partner like this exists in her life, she must find this space elsewhere.

If you are too isolated and disconnected this can overwhelm you and lead to ways of dealing with your children or baby that make things even harder for you, not easier.

Together we will explore and explode the mothering myths that are all around us! I will help you to see how trying to be a perfect mother works against you and your baby. Instead we will embrace the ideal of the good enough mother who is calmer, more relaxed and able to balance her children's needs with her own needs and with the rest of her life and relationships.

My Approach

You wil find me sensitive, attuned, responsive and respectful. I REALLY HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU ARE UP AGAINST! I listen without judgement to what you say and what you do not say. I aim to understand your unique experience so that I can best help you discover and build on your strengths and change the patterns of doing things that do not serve you in this situation.

I am flexible. I do not offer a one size fits all solution. I don't teach you one technique. I help you figure out what kind of mom you are and what works for YOU. My greatest gift is in offering you the space to consolidate your own mothering self. One that will stand by you in all the years to come as a mother.

I am above all open-minded about the many ways we can become parents..I am comfortable working with heterosexual married couples, gay couples adopting or using surrogacy and egg-donation, lesbian couples, single women using sperm donation, women adopting babies or embryos or becoming mothers via egg donation.

Why work with ME?

I have years of experience as a psychotherapist in private practice. I am a step-mother to 3 grown children and a mother to three children - a singleton and twins. After my first child was born I became fascinated with the changes and developments occurring within me. As a doctoral candidate in a rigorous psychodynamic psychotherapy program, I read and write about mothering as a developmental process.

I work psychotherapeutically with new mothers focusing on helping them adjust to mothering and also treating postpartum anxiety and depression.

I have taken my academic and psychodynamic understanding of this process and blended it with aspects interpersonal therapy and coaching ideas useful to mothers. Examples of this are: being grounded in the present time, buidling structures that support and calm, taking baby action steps, one day at a time, and focusing on moving foward into mothering using my client's internal and external strengths and relationships.

Next step..

Now that you have a better idea of working with me, my approach and philosophy, you may want to go to my services page and learn about the specific services I offer.

If you are struggling in anyway
or would like someone to talk to about mothering concerns,
please email: Kim@themommyblues.com. 

As a psychotherapist, postpartum counselor and mother's coach, Kim Richardson specializes in helping and supporting all moms who are stressed and overwhelmed. She works with new mothers during pregnancy, adoption, fertility and early motherhood and has specialized in treatment, education and diagnosis of postpartum depression.

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