Matrescence SUPPORT
Disorientation in the transition to motherhood and early years of it is normal. Navigating it alone is hard.
In our culture, women are largely moving through the transition to motherhood without context, understanding, or support tailored to this significant life shift.
Perinatal care is focused on the baby and largely silent on the feelings and shifts in mindset and identity that mothers experience in their transition to motherhood.
This leaves women alone and confused in a culture that expects them to snap into motherhood easily, joyously, and unchanged.
matrescence guidance eases your transition to motherhood and empowers you inside it
Matrescence guidance is for women:
Preparing for the transition to motherhood for the first time
Preparing to welcome another child and expand into a mother of more children
Adjusting to motherhood for the first time
Adjusting to life with an additional child
Feeling disoriented or mournful in the early years of matrescence
Marking matrescence milestones, like going back to work, ending breastfeeding, first birthdays, and more
1:1 matrescence sessions
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Dedicated space for your matrescence journey. Sessions are guided, tailored to your experience and needs, and offer a mix of reflection prompts, listening, perspective, and exercises. Audio recording, notes, and 48-hours of text support included.
Client Reviews
“Kate helped me explore and put words to everything I've been feeling and helped me feel really seen and understood throughout the whole process.
She had excellent questions that perfectly balanced curiosity and expanding my own thinking and perspective.
I walked away from our time together with a new way to think about this next chapter, as well as concrete next steps and resources. Every moment was so valuable and I can't recommend her 1:1 sessions enough, no matter what stage of motherhood you might be in.”
— Mads“The way Kate is able to put words to what I’m feeling and experiencing in motherhood is so powerful. She’s a gift to the community.”
— Mackenzie“Kate’s ability to hold space, normalize and reflect back my experiences and feelings during my postpartum journey was transformative. Whenever I needed to get something out into the world or needed some thoughtful reflection, I would reach for my phone and voice memo to Kate and immediately felt heard and supported. It was like I had a friend with me at all times. Kate is truly magical.”
— AlexisI’m Kate
I’m a mother of two and a matrescence doula
When I learned the word “matrescence” everything I had been experiencing in my first two years of motherhood suddenly made more sense.
My motherhood support practice was born a few years later after stretching from a mother of one daughter to a mother of two while recovering from a traumatic birth experience.
Each of my matrescence experiences is with me in my space holding for mothers — I know the joyous growth matrescence can deliver and the brutal shattering that can accompany it.
It is my honor to offer support, listening, perspective, and space holding for women in this potent life shift.
MY PHILOSOPHY & BACKGROUND
My guidance and space holding centers on you and your truth, no matter what motherhood looks like for you or how you come to it.
I meet you where you are, supporting you through what feels best to you in mothering, honoring that each of our motherhood journeys and experiences is entirely our own.
My aim is to lend you my stability, care, and deep empathy, and respect for the matrescence process so that you can find your center, your truth, your highest self, and your way forward.
I bring learnings from a range of coursework, life experiences, self work, and support groups, including wisdom from my own matrescence, studies with Seasons of Matrescence, Birth Story Medicine, personal experiences in traumatic birth and postpartum suffering, as well as the feminine experience I’ve witnessed in others through mother’s groups, women’s circles, and friendships.
