You don’t feel like yourself anymore and motherhood feels heavier than expected
I work with mothers who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or lost in the transition into motherhood and beyond supporting you to feel more grounded, connected, and like yourself again.
Laura Turner, Psychotherapist and Couples Counsellor
Sutherland Shire, Sydney, NSW and online Australia-wide
This is a space where all parts of you are welcome.
If your world feels like it's been cracked open, it’s because it has.
Motherhood reshapes your identity, relationships, and sense of self and with each new phase comes it’s own challenges.
Whether you’ve just had a baby or are in the thick of parenting this is a space for you to explore these changes, heal what feels heavy, and reconnect with the you that I promise is still inside.
Hi, I’m Laura.
Psychotherapist, mother, and ocean lover
based in Cronulla, Sutherland Shire
Motherhood shook me to my core, the way it’s meant to. And it was only through learning about matresence (the becoming of a mother) that I was able to deeply understand the space I inhabited between who I once was and who I was becoming.
I’ve seen how transformative it is when mothers feel safe, supported, and understood in the in-between space. And how, with the right care, it can become a place of growth for you as a mother, a human, and a soul.
I now work with mothers who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or lost in this transition even if on the outside it looks like they’re coping.
Therapy is not just about finding more calm in your day-to-day life, but about developing a deeper connection with yourself, your children, and everyone around you. When held with reverence, love, and care, your journey through motherhood can lead to profound healing on many levels.
It brings me so much joy to witness mothers coming home to themselves, reclaiming the parts they thought were lost, and breaking free from the system and expectations they carry.
Many of the women I support are navigating anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, or feeling like they don’t recognise themselves anymore since having a baby or becoming a mum
“Becoming a mother leaves no woman as it found her. It unravels and rebuilds her. It cracks her open, takes her to her edges. It's both beautiful and brutal, often at the same time”
- Nikki McCahon
You didn’t expect motherhood to shake you so deeply, or change, well, everything
Some days you feel like too much, and other days not enough.
You might be feeling constantly on edge, more anxious than you’ve ever been, or like you’re not coping the way you thought you would.
This is the wild, tender becoming of a mother. It’s a shift in bones, identity, and soul.
Not only should your transformation be acknowledged, but it needs to be honoured in all its contradictions. It’s beauty and grief, joy and exhaustion, love and loss of self.
You can lay it all down here. You’ll be met with empathy, understanding, and honest support when you need it most.
Not just for mothers
While I specialise in supporting mothers, I also work with individuals and couples who are wanting to understand themselves and their patterns more deeply.
This might be about healing what feels heavy, making sense of repeating patterns in your relationships or within yourself, or beginning to understand why you find yourself responding in certain ways even when you don’t want to.
For couples, this often shows up as feeling stuck in the same cycles — the same arguments, distance, or disconnection that feels hard to shift. For individuals, it might be a sense of feeling overwhelmed, emotionally reactive, or unsure why certain situations feel so activating.
In our work together, we slow things down and gently explore what’s sitting underneath these patterns, so there can be more understanding, steadiness, and choice in how you move forward in your relationships and in yourself.
You can find out more about that work below.
Here’s where we start…
I’d be honoured to support you