Bringing a baby into the world is life-changing: beautiful, exhausting, overwhelming, and everything in between. No matter how prepared you thought you were, parenthood can test even the strongest relationships. Couples therapy in Los Angeles, Hermosa Beach, the South Bay, and online across California helps you steady your connection, figure out what’s not working, and grow closer in this new phase of life.
Therapy for New Parents in Los Angeles
New Parents Counseling in Hermosa Beach & South Bay
Even when it feels like a dream come true, parenthood can also stir up things you didn’t expect: tension with your partner, resentment about the division of labor, loneliness, old wounds, anxiety or grief for the life you had before. Maybe you’re snapping at each other more than you’d like. Maybe you’re doing okay logistically but feel miles apart emotionally. Or maybe you just don’t feel like yourself, and you’re not sure how to name what’s happening.
Therapy for new parents is a space to slow down and make sense of it all. Not just to survive this chapter, but to stay connected to yourself, to each other, and to the kind of family you want to build.
Becoming a Parent Changes Everything Including Your Relationship With Yourself and Each Other
Couples Therapy for New Parents Across Los Angeles & South Bay
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I’m a relational therapist who has been who has been helping partners navigate the messy, beautiful, and sometimes overwhelming transition into parenthood. My clients often tell me I have a way of naming the unspoken; the patterns, wounds, and unbalanced dynamics that leave couples feeling stuck while still holding space with warmth and humor. My job is to help couples get to the root of what’s really driving the distance, whether it’s resentment about invisible labor, loss of intimacy or the pressure of becoming who your parents were (or weren’t).
I am able to balance compassion with candor. I’ll laugh with you about the chaos of parenting, but I’ll also challenge you to rethink the ways you show up for each other. With advanced training in relational therapy models and years of experience working with couples in high-pressure life stages, I know how to help you rebuild closeness, realign expectations, and rediscover intimacy in the middle of this demanding season.
Parenthood doesn’t have to mean losing your relationship. In our work together, you’ll gain tools to divide responsibilities more fairly, rebuild trust, and create a partnership that feels supportive and connected and not just functional. My goal isn’t for you to just survive these early years, but to feel like you’re growing stronger as a couple because of them.
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Couples Therapy for New Parents in Hermosa Beach & South Bay
We might be a good fit If...
You both love your baby, but it feels like you've lost each other in the swirl of sleep schedules, feedings, and constant logistics.
We might be a good fit If...
Intimacy feels harder than it used to - physically, emotionally or both. You miss the closeness you had, but don’t know how to get back there without pressure or resentment.
We might be a good fit If...
You're each quietly carrying more than your share whether it’s emotional labor, mental load, or unspoken grief, and it’s starting to spill over.
We might be a good fit If...
You find yourselves feeling more like teammates or roommates than partners. You’re getting through the days but missing the connection underneath.
We might be a good fit If...
The same arguments keep circling back sometimes about chores or parenting decisions, but underneath, they touch on old fears of being unseen, unheard, or left alone.
We might be a good fit If...
Parenting has stirred up past wounds from your own childhood or from old relationship patterns, and now you find yourselves more easily hurt, more reactive, or more guarded with each other.
We might be a good fit If...
You want to be able to talk about the hard stuff, but conversations easily slide into defensiveness, shutdown, or misunderstanding, leaving both of you feeling alone in it.
We might be a good fit If...
You long to feel connected in this new chapter not just as parents, but as partners who can support each other’s tender spots, repair quickly when you hurt each other, and grow stronger together through it all.
Becoming parents is both the most beautiful and the most disorienting shift a couple can face. You knew things would shift, but maybe you didn’t expect just how much your relationship would be tested. Suddenly, the person you once stayed up late laughing with is now someone you argue with over who got less sleep.
You're not alone. Studies show that most couples experience a dip in relationship satisfaction in the first few years of parenthood. Some find a way to adapt and grow together, while others struggle to feel like a team again. That’s where therapy comes in- helping you figure out what’s not working and how to rebuild connection in this new phase of life.
At the same time, becoming parents brings a new layer of responsibility for your child. Working on being present and mindful in your parenting, noticing how small daily choices shape the environment your child grows up in, while still protecting your own emotional space.
In our work together, we also pay attention to how stress and exhaustion affect your brain and reactions, helping you recognize when frustration, impatience, or tension shows up, and how to respond instead of reacting. Over time, therapy helps you and your partner create rhythms that honor both your partnership and your growing family, so you feel supported, connected, and confident in this new chapter.
Therapy gives you a space to steady yourselves, to feel less alone in the chaos, and to grow closer instead of drifting apart.
Relationship Support for New Parents with Therapy in Los Angeles & South Bay
Cultivating intimacy in a season that doesn’t feel sexy
Working through communication patterns that create more disconnection
Shifting generational patterns
Rebalancing the invisible labor
Relearning how to turn toward each other
Making space for your individual experience
Interrupting autopilot responses
Understanding how your earliest relationships shaped the way you show up now
You’ll start to notice how quickly you shut down, snap, over-accommodate, or retreat -not to judge yourself, but so we can get curious about what part of you is showing up, and what it needs. This isn’t about “better communication tips,” it’s about understanding the emotional logic underneath your reactions.
Maybe one of you shuts down, the other presses harder or both avoid when uncomfortable. Maybe things feel like a never-ending to-do list, and your emotional life has fallen off the radar. We’ll get underneath those cycles, slow them down, and help you practice expressing needs, boundaries, and emotions without shame, resentment or walking on eggshells.
Parenthood changes everything - including how you feel in your body, your relationship to touch, and your capacity for closeness. We’ll talk honestly about how to find new forms of emotional, physical, and playful intimacy that actually feel good to both of you instead of recreating pressure or rejection.
