Becoming a mother changed everything — including you.
Specialist therapy for new and expecting mothers moving through postnatal depression, anxiety and the enormous shift of early motherhood. Warm, unhurried, and entirely without judgement — on the Gold Coast and online across Australia.
Medicare rebates available with a Mental Health Treatment Plan · see fees & rebates
You’re not imagining it. This is so much harder than anyone told you.
Everyone said it would be the happiest time of your life. Instead you feel exhausted in a way sleep doesn’t fix, flat where you expected joy, and quietly frightened that something is wrong with you.
Maybe you’re going through the motions while feeling strangely far away — and then drowning in guilt for feeling that way at all. You love your baby. And you’re struggling. Both can be true.
This isn’t a flaw in you, and it isn’t forever. With the right support, the heaviness lifts — and you begin to feel like yourself again.
“You don’t have to hold it all together in here.
You just have to show up as you are.”
How I help
Support shaped around motherhood
Specialist, specific care for this season of life — not generic counselling, but therapy for exactly what you’re carrying right now.
Postnatal depression
When the early months feel heavy, flat or frightening — not the joy you were promised.
Read moreAntenatal anxiety
Worry and dread during pregnancy that won’t switch off, no matter how ‘fine’ everything is.
Read moreBirth trauma
When the birth itself left a mark — flashbacks, fear, or a sense it wasn’t supposed to be like that.
Read moreHowever suits you
Choose your support
Wherever you are — and however hard it feels to leave the house right now — there’s a way to begin.
In clinic
A calm, private room on the Gold Coast — somewhere that feels safe to exhale.
By telehealth
Secure video sessions from home, anywhere in Australia. As warm as being in the room.
Home visit
For the earliest, most tender weeks — support that comes to you. (Limited availability.)
A little about me
Warm, grounded, and genuinely in your corner
I’m Lyndall — a mental health social worker who works exclusively with mothers through pregnancy, birth and the early years. This isn’t a side interest; it’s the whole of what I do.
My approach is warm and unhurried. No clinical distance, no judgement — just steady, evidence-based support from someone who truly understands how tender this time can be.
Resources
Words for the hard days
Gentle, practical reading for whatever you’re moving through.
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