My Focus
Every mother’s experience is different, but there are common challenges I see again and again. I work with women navigating:
Postnatal depression and anxiety
Stress, overwhelm, and exhaustion
Loss of identity or self-confidence
Relationship and intimacy changes
Guilt, shame, and comparison
Grief and loss (including miscarriage or stillbirth)
The ongoing transformation of matrescence
I am a qualified humanistic psychotherapist with further training in perinatal mental health. Over the past eight years, I’ve also immersed myself in the study of matrescence and the cultural forces that shape how women experience motherhood.
This combination of therapeutic depth, matrescence-informed insight, and cultural awareness allows me to support mothers not only in navigating their inner transformations, but also in making sense of the social expectations and myths that so often leave them feeling like they are falling short.
Hello, I’m Jacqueline. As both a psychotherapist and a mother, I know how complex and life-changing the experience of motherhood can be. While it can bring love and joy, many mothers also quietly feel something else: a deep sense of loss, confusion, or disconnection from who they used to be.
My work is to offer a compassionate space where these truths can be spoken aloud, not judged, dismissed, or pathologised. Together, we can begin to make sense of your experience, and help you reconnect with the person you are becoming.
This is the part of motherhood I specialise in, sitting with mothers in the space of identity loss. I help women name the grief and challenge the fantasies of motherhood that can rob us of the chance to embrace its reality.
When we understand that these feelings are not personal failings but part of the profound transition of matrescence, something shifts. We stop blaming ourselves, and we start making space for compassion, honesty, and self-discovery.
“Motherhood can be such a lonely place. It doesn’t matter how many coffee mornings you go to or how many baby groups you join, there can still be a deep, deep sense of loneliness in being a mother”