Individual & Couples Therapy for Perinatal Mental Health
Katharine L. Rowny, PsyD, is a San Francisco Bay Area psychologist specializing in perinatal (Prenatal & postpartum) mental health and grief counseling following miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, and other forms of pregnancy loss. Dr. Rowny provides in-person therapy in Berkeley and telehealth throughout Northern and Southern California, Colorado, & Washington.
You don’t have to navigate the challenges of pregnancy and postpartum alone.
Together, we can make space for concerns related to:
Feelings of sadness, anxiety, and anger
Making sense of upsetting, frightening, or recurring thoughts
Grief from miscarriage, pregnancy loss, TFMR, or stillbirth
Traumatic experiences with labor and delivery
Relationship changes and social support
Returning to work or staying home with your baby
How I Can Help
Perinatal Mental Health
Pregnancy and the postpartum period can bring emotions and changes that do not fit with how you expected this time to feel. Individual therapy offers a place to understand sadness, worry, anger, guilt, or upsetting thoughts. It can also help you process difficult pregnancy or birth experiences, notice patterns that intensify distress, and identify what may make daily life feel more manageable. Couples therapy offers a place to understand how each partner responds to stress, communicate needs more clearly, and navigate changes in roles, responsibilities, intimacy, and connection as you adjust to parenthood.
Stillbirth & Pregnancy Loss
No words fully capture the magnitude of losing a longed-for baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, or another form of pregnancy loss. Grief is deeply personal, and counseling can provide a place to speak openly about your loss, feel less alone, and make sense of emotions that may shift over time. For couples, partners often grieve in different ways and on different timelines, which can lead to misunderstanding or distance even when both are deeply affected. Individual or couples therapy can offer support as you navigate grief, changes in your relationship or sense of self, and questions about intimacy, healing, and whether-or when-to try for another pregnancy.
Additional Services
Cancer Counseling & Support
Psycho-Oncology
A diagnosis of breast or gynecologic cancer can bring fear, grief, anger, numbness, or uncertainty, with reactions that may shift over time. Therapy can offer a place to think about both the practical realities of treatment and the more emotionally weighty parts of the experience. This may include navigating changes in work or school, caregiving, fertility, relationships, and body image, as well as deciding what to share about your diagnosis, when, and with whom. We can also make space for thinking through questions to bring to your care team, communicating your needs and concerns, and sorting through the emotional complexity of important treatment decisions.
Therapy can also offer a place to process the transition out of active treatment, including the mixed emotions that may arise as frequent medical appointments taper off, uncertainty about what comes next, and fear of recurrence that can persist afterward.
How To Begin
Schedule an Phone Consultation
A complimentary 15 minute phone consultation gives us a chance to talk briefly about what is bringing you to therapy, answer your questions about working together, and see whether it feels like a good fit. You are welcome to schedule a consultation even if you are unsure whether therapy is the right next step.
FAQs
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I accept Lyra Health, which you or your partner might have as a benefit through an employer. For all other health plans, I’m considered an "Out-of-Network Provider.” Some insurance plans include benefits that partially cover therapy for out-of-network providers, and I am happy to provide you with a monthly statement to submit to your insurance carrier to seek reimbursement. Please click here for questions to ask your insurance company regarding possible out-of-network benefits for mental health.
Good Faith Estimate: Starting January 1st, 2022, you have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your healthcare care will cost. Under the law, health care practitioners need to give patients who do not have insurance or who are not using their existing insurance to pay for and/or seek reimbursement for services an estimate of the expected charges for healthcare, including mental services, such as psychotherapy or a consultation/evaluation for third-party family building. You can request from your health care practitioner for a Good Faith Estimate prior to scheduling a service. If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.
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Individual therapy $275
Couples therapy $325
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Yes. I provide therapy for patients in person in my downtown Berkeley office or via telehealth for patients living in California, Colorado or Washington.
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Therapy sessions are 50 minutes.
About Dr. Rowny
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience in perinatal mental health, pregnancy loss, and therapy for people navigating breast or gynecologic cancer. I work with individuals, couples and college students seeking therapy for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief and loss, postpartum depression, relationship difficulties, trauma, and major life transitions. I’m in network with Lyra Health.
