Therapy in Palm Desert for Parents, Couples, and Growing Families
Compassionate support through pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and family transitions
Support for Every Season of Parenthood
Parenting asks so much of you:
Your body.
Your nervous system.
Your identity.
Your relationships.
Your sense of who you were, and who you’re becoming.
Some seasons feel steady and full of connection.
Others feel overwhelming, disorienting, or nothing like what you imagined.
Some seasons feel steady and full of connection.
Others feel overwhelming, disorienting, or nothing like what you imagined.
Whether you’re navigating IVF, early pregnancy anxiety, postpartum adjustment, relationship strain, or the daily stress of parenting, you don’t have to carry it alone.
Therapy for parents offers a steadier place to land, a space to slow down, feel supported, and learn how to regulate your nervous system, so your home feels calmer again.
Let’s make this season more manageable, together.
I work with parents across Palm Desert and the Coachella Valley, and provide online therapy throughout California.
Therapist, mama, IVF parent, and someone who knows what it’s like to carry more than you ever expected, in your mind, in your body, and in your heart.
Parenthood doesn’t move in straight lines.
It’s tender. It’s disorienting. It’s beautiful and brutal at the same time.
And for many of us, it starts long before a baby arrives.
Hi, I’m Sophie,
My Approach & Training
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My Approach & Training *
Therapy with me blends real-life understanding with evidence-based care.
I draw from several approaches, not to overcomplicate things, but to meet you where you are and support real change in your nervous system, your relationships, and your daily life.
Here’s how the tools I use actually support you:
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As a certified IBP therapist and teacher, I use this body-based approach to help clients understand and shift patterns held in the nervous system.
IBP recognizes that anxiety and overwhelm live in the body, not just the mind. This work is especially supportive during fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting, when your system has been asked to stay “on” for too long.
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I integrate DBT-informed tools into therapy to support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, especially during moments when emotions feel intense or overwhelming.
These skills are used in a grounded, flexible way to help you move through anxiety, reactivity, and high-stress parenting moments without shutting down or pushing yourself past capacity.
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For clients who want it, I integrate spiritual psychology as a way to explore meaning, identity, and values during times of transition or loss.
This work is never prescriptive or belief-based. It offers space to reflect on who you are becoming, what this season is asking of you, and how to move forward in a way that feels aligned, grounded, and authentic.
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I use EFT-informed approaches in couples and family therapy to help partners understand the emotional patterns underneath conflict, distance, and disconnection.
Rather than focusing on blame or “who’s right,” this work helps you slow down reactive cycles, name unmet needs, and rebuild safety and connection, especially during high-stress seasons like fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting.
My Approach
Working together, therapy becomes a place where things slow down.
A place where your nervous system can settle, your thoughts can untangle, and you don’t have to carry everything on your own.
You don’t need to show up with the right words.
You don’t need to explain everything perfectly.
You don’t need to be “doing it well” to belong here.
In our work together, you can expect:
A steady, grounding pace that helps your body feel safer
Space to be honest about what’s hard, without judgment or pressure
Support in understanding the patterns beneath anxiety, overwhelm, or disconnection
Tools to help regulate your nervous system in moments that feel like too much
Gentle exploration of how past experiences and attachment shape present reactions
A therapeutic relationship that feels collaborative, warm, and deeply human
This work isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about helping you feel more resourced, more connected, and more able to meet this season of life, whether that’s fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum, or parenting, with greater clarity and compassion.
Where This Work Comes From
I didn’t become a therapist who supports fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting by accident. I came to this work through lived experience, by moving through much of this emotional terrain myself.
I know what it’s like to sit in the parking lot before an ultrasound, holding your breath.
Waiting for embryo updates.
Counting the days and wondering if hoping feels safe.
Holding grief and possibility at the same time.
I also know what early motherhood can feel like, the identity shifts, the anxiety, the exhaustion. The way love can feel overwhelming and grounding all at once. The way relationships stretch. The way your nervous system stays on high alert. The way silence at 2 a.m. can feel impossibly loud.
My work is rooted in these experiences, not because my story is your story, but because I understand, from the inside, how complex and tender this season can be.
And I believe no parent should have to navigate it alone.
My Clinical Background
I’ve spent over 15 years supporting individuals, couples, and families through some of the most vulnerable seasons of their lives, including fertility journeys, IVF, pregnancy anxiety, early parenthood, relationship strain, and identity shifts.
What I’ve learned is this:
The moment you’re in is rarely the whole story.
Beneath what feels overwhelming in the present are patterns learned long ago, beliefs formed quietly, and coping strategies that once kept you safe but now leave you stretched too thin.
Therapy offers a place to slow down enough to actually see those patterns, understand where they came from, and begin building something steadier, truer, and more sustainable.
My work blends evidence-based therapy with warm, grounded, real-life understanding of what it’s like to be a parent navigating fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and everything that comes after.
Why I Built Haven Wellness
I built Haven Wellness because I saw how few spaces existed for parents, especially queer parents and IVF families, to talk honestly about what this season actually asks of you.
The waiting.
The worrying.
The grief.
The identity shifts.
The changes in your relationship.
The quiet parts no one prepares you for.
So much of parenthood, fertility, and family building happens internally, long before it shows up on the outside. I wanted to create a space where those experiences could be named, held, and supported, without minimizing, fixing, or rushing them.
Haven Wellness was built to be that place.
Therapy became my way of creating the space I wish I’d had, a place where you don’t have to explain why this season feels so heavy, because I already understand.
My work isn’t about perfection or “fixing” you.
It’s about helping you feel human again.
Grounded again.
Connected again.
And it’s about offering you a space to breathe, maybe for the first time in a long while.