Perinatal Counselling in British Columbia
The Perinatal Collective offers online therapy for pregnancy, fertility journeys, postpartum, and early years of parenthood across British Columbia. We recognize the perinatal period can be deeply meaningful, while also being far more difficult than many people expect.
Get support from someone that understands how complex this season can be.
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We offer specialized Perinatal therapy for parents in BC
Pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood often bring emotional shifts, uncertainty, identity changes, and stress that can feel hard to name or explain. You might be coping. You might be functioning. You might even look “fine” from the outside, but internally you’re struggling.
At The Perinatal Collective, we offer specialized perinatal counselling for individuals and couples across British Columbia. Our therapists are trained to support the emotional, mental, and relational challenges that can show up during fertility journeys, family planning, pregnancy, after birth, and throughout the early years of parenting. All sessions are offered online, making it easy to access support wherever you are in BC.
Your concerns do not need to be “bad enough” and you do not need a diagnosis to seek support. Many individuals may not be able to explicitly name what’s wrong, only that things feel different, heavier, or harder than they used to. Regardless of how it feels, you deserve support that understands this season of life.
Perinatal counselling,
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Is This You?
You might recognize yourself in some of this:
- You wake up already overwhelmed
- You snap, then feel guilty
- Your mind won’t stop spinning with “what ifs”
- You just feel off, disconnected, or unlike yourself
- Your relationship feels more fragile than it used it
- You miss who you used to be
- You wonder if everyone struggles like this
Many people come to perinatal counselling with clear concerns, while others may not be able to explicitly describe how they’re feeling. Both are valid. These experiences are more common than most people realize. And they’re not a personal failure or a sign that you’re doing something wrong.
Perinatal therapy offers space to slow things down, make sense of what’s happening, and get support that fits the realities of this stage rather than the version of parenthood we’re often sold.
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Perinatal therapy focuses on the emotional and relational changes that can show up during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. Rather than rushing to label or “fix” what you’re feeling, therapy starts by meeting you where you are.
Together, we work to understand what’s weighing on you, what’s been disrupted, and what kind of support would feel most helpful right now. For some clients, that means processing anxiety, grief, or difficult experiences. For others, it means rebuilding a sense of steadiness, self-trust, or connection during a time of significant change.
Therapy is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the realities of perinatal life — including sleep deprivation, hormonal shifts, shifting roles, and the pressure to hold everything together.
How Perinatal Therapy Can Help
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Perinatal mental health is not one-size-fits-all. Support often looks different depending on where you are in the journey and what you’re carrying.
Our Perinatal Therapy Services Across British Columbia
The postpartum period can bring intense emotional shifts, including anxiety, low mood, irritability, intrusive thoughts, or a sense of disconnection. Some parents meet criteria for postpartum depression or anxiety. Others simply know they don’t feel like themselves anymore.
Counselling offers a space to talk honestly about what you’re experiencing, without minimizing it or jumping to conclusions. You do not need a diagnosis to receive support.
Counselling offers a space to talk honestly about what you’re experiencing, without minimizing it or jumping to conclusions. You do not need a diagnosis to receive support.
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Counselling
Pregnancy can stir up fear, uncertainty, and emotional vulnerability, even when it’s wanted or long-awaited. Therapy during pregnancy can help you navigate anxiety, identity changes, decision-making, and the emotional weight of what’s ahead.
Pregnancy-Related Anxiety and Emotional Support
Pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood can place real strain on relationships, even when there is deep care and commitment. Relationship counselling offers space to slow things down, repair after conflict, and navigate changes in communication, intimacy, mental load, and parenting roles.
Our therapists support couples through the perinatal period with collaborative, non-judgmental care that helps partners reconnect and move forward in a way that feels sustainable for their relationship.
Our therapists support couples through the perinatal period with collaborative, non-judgmental care that helps partners reconnect and move forward in a way that feels sustainable for their relationship.
Relationship Counselling for Parents
Pregnancy loss can be deeply painful and isolating, especially when grief is minimized or rushed by others. Perinatal counselling provides space to process loss at your own pace, without expectations about how you “should” be feeling.
We support clients navigating miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, fertility challenges, and complex grief related to loss.
We support clients navigating miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, fertility challenges, and complex grief related to loss.
Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Counselling
Becoming a parent often reshapes every part of life, from routines, relationships, identity, and sense of self. Many new parents feel overwhelmed, stretched thin, or unsure of who they are now.
Counselling can help you process the transition into parenthood, make sense of emotional changes, and feel more grounded during a time that can feel destabilizing.
Counselling can help you process the transition into parenthood, make sense of emotional changes, and feel more grounded during a time that can feel destabilizing.
Counselling for New Parents
Unexpected or traumatic birth experiences can leave lasting emotional impacts.
Therapy provides a safe space to process what happened, how it affected you, and how it continues to show up, without the pressure to “move on” before you’re ready.
Therapy provides a safe space to process what happened, how it affected you, and how it continues to show up, without the pressure to “move on” before you’re ready.
Birth Trauma and Difficult Birth Experiences
For many parents, going back to work is one of the most emotionally intense parts of the perinatal period. The transition can bring anxiety, guilt, grief, pressure to “bounce back,” and fears about how everything will fit together. Even when returning to work is planned or welcome, it can still feel destabilizing.
Perinatal counselling offers space to process the emotions that come up during this transition, navigate identity shifts, and find steadier ground as you balance work, caregiving, and your own needs.
Perinatal counselling offers space to process the emotions that come up during this transition, navigate identity shifts, and find steadier ground as you balance work, caregiving, and your own needs.
Returning to Work
We work with people in the perinatal journey, including:
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- Birthing parents
- Non-birthing parents
- First-time parents
- Parents after miscarriage or loss
- Parents navigating fertility challenges
- Parents who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of what they’re feeling
Who We Work With
You do not need to fit a specific label or diagnosis to seek counselling. If this stage of life feels heavy or confusing, support can be helpful.
The Perinatal Collective offers online perinatal counselling to clients across British Columbia. Whether you’re in Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Abbotsford, Victoria, Kelowna, or a smaller BC community, virtual sessions make it possible to access specialized care without commuting or rearranging your life.
Our therapists are licensed to work with clients in BC and understand the unique realities of perinatal care within the province. Online therapy allows you to receive consistent, compassionate support from the comfort of your own space.
Serving Families Virtually Across British Columbia
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Every therapist on our team has additional, in-depth training in perinatal mental health. This means you don’t need to explain or justify what you’re going through. We’re trained for this.
Our approach is warm, relational, and honest. We name the hard parts without judgment, avoid toxic positivity, and support parents as whole people, not just caregivers. Therapy is collaborative and paced with care, recognizing how vulnerable and demanding this season can be.
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Why Work With
The Perinatal Collective
She is honestly the best clinical counsellor with the most compassionate heart. I am in awe at the way she is so caring, compassionate, and thoughtful. Her advice is practical, realistic, and easy to implement. I’m so grateful to have found her.
The best counsellor with the most compassionate heart.
She is so supportive, thoughtful, insightful and is able to connect with me. I so appreciate her and how she asks the right questions to help me release emotions that I didn't know I was pushing down, and questions to help me think a different way. So very fortunate to be working with her.
So very fortunate to be working with her.
You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone
The perinatal period can be meaningful, overwhelming, and nothing like you expected. If things haven’t felt right lately, therapy can help you reconnect to yourself and feel more supported during this transition.
You don’t need to have everything figured out to get started.
We’re ready when you are.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Many clients come to therapy unsure of exactly what they’re experiencing. A diagnosis is not required to receive support.
Yes. Online therapy is highly effective and especially supportive during the perinatal period, offering flexibility, accessibility, and continuity of care.
Yes. From Vancouver to Kelowna, our therapists are licensed to work with clients across BC, and sessions are offered virtually.
That’s very common. Therapy can help you slow things down and make sense of what’s coming up, even if you don’t have clear answers yet.
Sessions are 50 minutes long and range from $145–$220 CAD plus applicable taxes, depending on the therapist. Therapists also spend time outside of sessions planning your care and documenting progress.
We don’t offer direct billing, but most extended health benefit plans cover counselling services. Coverage varies by province and provider, so we recommend checking with your insurance company.
In most cases, you’ll need to work with a therapist licensed in your province, though there are some exceptions. Our booking filters make this clear and easy to navigate.
