Emotional support in your pregnancy with Psychotherapist Carlotta
Carlotta Bozzetti
Becoming a parent (for the 1st, 2nd or 3rd time) is a massive shift in someone’s life and identity. Pregnancy may be bringing up strong and conflicting emotions that leave you feeling worried and overwhelmed. Perhaps your conception journey hasn’t been a straightforward one, or you may have experienced losses in the past. Maybe you are worried about giving birth, possibly after a first difficult or traumatic experience.
I create for mothers and partners-to-be a safe space. Individual needs, worries and questions can be shared and listened to without judgment. In the protected container of the sessions, you will be supported in starting to make sense and process some difficult emotions or difficult past experiences. I share evidence-based knowledge to enable families to make informed decisions about pregnancy, birth and the early years.
I charge £110 per session, and the sessions can be either online or in person in Stoke Newington
Dr Verity Wilkinson
Clinical Psychologist specialising in perinatal & parent-infant mental health
I am an HCPC-registered Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working within NHS psychological services. I specialise in supporting families, babies and young children, with over a decade of experience working in perinatal and parent-infant mental health.
Alongside my NHS role as a senior clinician within a Parent Infant Psychology Service, I offer private psychological therapy for families during pregnancy and the early years of parenting. I work with individuals, couples and families, and have particular expertise in supporting parents alongside their babies. I also provide supervision, consultation, and training to other health professionals and have extensive experience supporting Trauma-Informed Practice within CAMHS, early years, and community settings.
You might want to see me if:
Many parents I work with are finding the transition into parenthood more difficult than they expected. You may want support to explore difficult thoughts and feelings about yourself as a parent, your relationship with your baby or child, or the changes becoming a parent has brought to your sense of identity, relationships, work and wider family life.
Parenthood can also bring up complex feelings about your own early experiences and relationships, and many parents want a safe space to reflect on how these experiences shape family life. You may be struggling with grief around your fertility journey; worries during pregnancy; birth trauma; feeding difficulties; or the emotional impact of sleep deprivation, overwhelm, and changes in your body after having a baby.
I also work with parents navigating the emotional challenges of toddlerhood and early childhood, including the difficult feelings that toddler rages and developmental changes can sometimes bring up.
A central part of my work is helping parents strengthen confidence, connection and enjoyment within the early parent-infant relationship.
Appointments are available online or in person in North London. Sessions are 50 minutes and cost £140.
Antenatal services: Psychological support during pregnancy
Pregnancy and the transition into motherhood can bring enormous emotional change, alongside hopes, expectations, uncertainty and vulnerability. Many women find themselves struggling with anxiety about birth, becoming a parent, or the reality of how different pregnancy and early motherhood feels from what they had imagined.
You may be coping with difficult feelings about your changing body, grief around a pregnancy shaped by sickness, pain or medical complications, or uncertainty about your relationship with your unborn baby. For some parents, difficult fertility journeys, pregnancy loss or previous traumatic experiences can make it more complicated to connect with pregnancy or with their baby in the way they expected.
Pregnancy can also bring complex feelings for parents already caring for older children — balancing everyone’s needs whilst physically and emotionally stretched, grieving the version of parenting you feel temporarily unable to offer, or worrying about how your feelings towards this baby or pregnancy may differ from before.
Many parents are surprised by how emotionally mixed and complicated pregnancy can feel. I offer a compassionate and reflective space to think about these experiences without judgment. Together we can explore fears around birth and parenthood, difficult feelings about identity and change, worries about bonding or attachment, and the emotional impact of previous experiences and relationships that pregnancy can sometimes bring to the surface.
Alongside making sense of these experiences, therapy can also support you in beginning to build a more compassionate, confident and connected sense of yourself within motherhood. My approach is warm, relational and attachment-informed, with a focus on strengthening both parental emotional well-being and the developing parent-infant relationship.
Sessions can help parents feel more emotionally prepared for the postpartum period, strengthen their confidence as parents, and begin building a more connected relationship with their baby before birth.