If it takes from birth until the day you arrive at the session to start really working on whatever is bothering you or if a problem has been incubating for many months, it makes sense that you might need a few more than a couple of one hour sessions to find the relief or solution. Neuroscience shows that change takes time.

Having lived myself in 5 different countries, I have the experience of living in a society, where I cannot speak the national language and therefore miss out on relevant information and many necessities. Having a child in a foreign country without the support of family or friends adds another layer of extreme stress and loneliness to motherhood. With very limited mental health information and support available in many countries for English speaking people, my focus is offering help to change the situation for better by enabling one woman and a mother at a time to have access for support with consulting & supervision in English.

During critical and life changing periods in life we tend to fall into old habits or lose our way. Becoming a mother adds a a new dimension to “you” and being in a constant rush and stress in the same environment turns off your “thinking brain” due to the flood of cortisol in your body. When functioning on autopilot, all the energy in your brain is focused on “fire fighting” the daily challenges and there is no time to actually take a breath and think. In my sessions you can take the time off only for yourself in a trusting relationship, which decreases cortisol levels, allowing you to direct the energy into another area in the front of your brain and think more clearly and effectively to make the right decisions for you. Together we can then look into your challenges, feelings, patterns and fears that are not supporting you and see if and how to allow change. If you do not take the time for you, noone will give it to you.

Most of us know the saying “It takes a village to raise a child”. We also know that in today´s world mothers and fathers are usually raising their baby after the release from the hospital alone. Yes, we have friends sending flowers if we are lucky and grandparents and siblings visiting and trying to help, yet most of the challenges day by day we go through alone with the father of the child or without. When we raise our kids, we make mistakes - we are human, yet if we do not heal our own pains and understand our misdoings we pass our problems on to our children. The demands of being a mother are enourmous and without having the right mental and physical support, it is perfectly understandable that we struggle and the implications on our children are huge. For example science has shown that by 3rd month a baby is mimicking their mother´s sounds and expressions including facial expressions - if the mother is anxious, worried, stressed or depressed, this is what your baby will mimick, this is his/her reality and first perception of life. Lack of presence by mom damages brain circuits meant for connection and instead strengthens circuits designed for preservation, setting the child up for potential mental problems in future life and relationships. This is the reason why I focus on mothers. We are the ones that we can work on and improve for our children to have a better and healthier life, but also for ourselves to enjoy being a mother and a woman.