Our offer of support

We are here to support your emotional wellbeing through life’s big changes – from the first thoughts about having a child, through pregnancy, birth, parenthood, and beyond.

Our Services

We offer emotional and therapeutic support for adults, parents, carers, babies, and children – from before conception onwards. Our service is inclusive and welcoming to all, including individuals, mixed- and same-sex couples, LGBTQIA+, single parents, fathers, blended families, co-parents, kinship carers & special guardians and children not living with their birth parents. We strive to provide neuro-inclusive practice.

We can help with challenges such as:

Deciding whether to have a child
Fertility and conception difficulties
Worries during pregnancy
Miscarriage and loss
Birth trauma
Feeling anxious, low, or overwhelmed
Adjusting to parenting
Building your bond with your baby or toddler
Co-parenting and blended family challenges
Understanding your child’s behaviour and emotions
Sleep, feeding, and weaning concerns

Parenting after trauma or difficult childhood experiences
Toddler tantrums and big feelings
Supporting fostered, kinship, or adopted children
Experiences of NICU/SCBU
Health difficulties in yourself and your baby in the ante & postnatal period
Working with babies with medical and developmental vulnerabilities
Having children via surrogacy
Returning to work

How we can help

The journey into parenthood is rarely straightforward, and every family’s experience is unique. You may be deciding whether to have a child, navigating fertility challenges, or carrying worries through pregnancy and beyond. You might be coping with loss, birth trauma, or feelings of anxiety, low mood, or overwhelm, or adjusting to the realities of parenting a baby, toddler, or older child. We support parents and caregivers through bonding and attachment, sleep and feeding concerns, big emotions and challenging behaviour, co-parenting and blended family dynamics, and parenting shaped by past trauma or difficult childhood experiences. We also offer specialist support for fostered, kinship, and adopted children and the families who care for them. Wherever you are on your parenting journey, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Deciding to have a child

We can help you explore your feelings, hopes, and worries around starting a family. This can be especially helpful for both individuals and couples who want a neutral space to think through the decision together.

Fertility and conception

Trying for a baby can be an emotional rollercoaster and can be fraught with stress and anguish. Medical procedures, tests and hormone changes alongside cycles of hope and disappointment can mean you feel worn down and overwhelmed. We’re here to support you through the stress, loss, and isolation that can come with treatment and waiting, and to help you process your experiences.

Pregnancy concerns

Pregnancy can bring both excitement and worry. Sometimes anxiety, health challenges, or past experiences make it hard to enjoy pregnancy. We can be there to support you and understand the very difficult journey you are on.

Miscarriage and loss

Losing a baby is devastating. We provide a compassionate space to share your grief, whatever you’re feeling – from sadness to anger – and help you through this painful time.

Birth trauma

When birth is frightening or overwhelming, it can leave lasting distress. We offer evidence-based trauma therapies to help you process trauma and begin to feel safe again.

Health post-birth

Difficulties with your baby’s or your own health post birth can be frightening. Hospital stays can be worrying, exhausting and interrupt your developing your connection. Babies who have had early experiences of medical treatment may be sensitive to care. We can help process your trauma experiences and help you back on the path to feeling more confident with your baby.

Adjusting to parenting

Becoming a parent can be joyful – but also exhausting, overwhelming, and far from what you expected. We’ll help you make sense of your feelings, build confidence, and find ways to cope with change.

Co-parenting

Parenting together isn’t always easy, especially with different backgrounds, expectations, or after separation. We create a space where everyone can feel heard and work towards shared approaches.

Supporting your child

We can help with sleep, feeding, weaning, toddler tantrums, big emotions, and understanding your child’s needs – whether birth, fostered, kinship, or adopted. Our aim is to strengthen your bond and help your child thrive.

ASGSF funded work (DDP, Therapeutic parenting, Clinical Psychology)

Children who have been ‘Looked After’ by their Local Authority can access the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund for access to specialist therapeutic support. Your SGO Social Worker (SW), adoption or Post-adoption SW can apply for up to £3000 of therapy with us.
We can offer Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy – a therapeutic approach developed to work with children who have experienced Developmental trauma.

We can offer Therapeutic parenting to support your understanding of your child’s presentation and to consider strategies that may support your child.

We can also offer Clinical Psychology interventions to children, parents and families to work on the particular struggles that are affecting you at the moment.

Returning to work

Returning to work can feel overwhelming, how to navigate being a professional person and a parent. We can support you to to think about the practical and emotional journey of starting the separation, reclaiming the professional part of yourself and integrating this with the parent part of yourself

How it works

We welcome self-referrals and are registered with private healthcare insurers.

We can also offer therapeutic assessment and intervention under the ASGSF fund (up to £3,000).

The fees for self-funded sessions ranges from £120-160.

Please note: We can’t provide crisis support. If you need immediate help to keep yourself or others safe, contact your GP or attend A&E.

Fill out our contact form or email us directly: admin@lifecyclepsychology.co.uk

Get in touch

Fill in our online form. One of us will contact you for an initial chat to make sure we’re the right fit for your needs.

Meet Your Therapist

We’ll connect you with your therapist, and together you’ll explore what’s been going on and how it’s affecting you. This first stage – called an assessment – may take up to three sessions.

Plan your support

You and your therapist will set goals and agree how many sessions to start with. We’ll regularly review progress together.

Our Offer of Support

We are here to support your emotional wellbeing through life’s big changes – from the first thoughts about having a child, through pregnancy, birth, parenthood, and beyond.

Our Professional Support

We provide specialist psychological input at key life transitions, with a focus on the journey to parenthood, the perinatal period, parent–infant relationships, early years development and couple/family relationships.

Contact Lifecycle Psychology

We are Clinical/Practitioner Psychologists and Systemic Practitioners with extensive NHS and private sector experience. We first worked together in the NHS, where we developed a shared focus on parent-infant mental health and supporting families through complex transitions.

‘When families are really listened to… it may enable them to feel that something crucial about them has been understood.’

– Dilys Daws