Michele Neuhaus

Maternal Mental Health | Infant, Child & Adolescent Therapist

Whether you’re preparing for parenthood, navigating the challenges of raising a young child, or supporting an older child or teenager through emotional or behavioral struggles, you don’t have to do it alone.

As a licensed psychotherapist, registered art psychotherapist, and Director of a Perinatal and Early Childhood Mental Health Program, I bring more than 20 years of experience helping children, adolescents, parents, and families navigate life’s most important developmental stages—from pregnancy and the postpartum period through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood.

I specialize in maternal mental health, including pregnancy, postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, infertility, pregnancy loss, parenting stress, and the emotional transitions that accompany becoming a parent. I also provide therapy for infants, children, teens, and young adults experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, behavioral challenges, emotional regulation difficulties, trauma, school-related concerns, and family transitions.

My approach is warm, collaborative, and individualized. By integrating evidence-based psychotherapy with art, play, and talk therapy, I help children express emotions that may be difficult to put into words while helping adults gain insight, develop practical coping strategies, strengthen relationships, and build resilience.

Whether you’re seeking support for yourself, your child, or your family, my goal is to provide a safe, compassionate space where healing, growth, and meaningful change can occur.

Parents often worry about their child when alarming behaviors emerge. Challenges that arise in childhood can impact one’s mood, how one copes with stress, and identity formation. Similar issues can arise for parents who may be experiencing this role for the first time, impacting one’s ability to bond with their children. Early intervention can support children as young as infancy to promote healthy functioning into adulthood as well as support parents who may be experiencing difficult feelings related to their own history.

Parenthood is hard - especially when your child is struggling, or the life you imagined has not come to fruition, or anxiety and complex feelings are interfering with what should be a joyous time in your life. Exhaustion, irritability, and uncertainty can be overwhelming. A difficult diagnosis (grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, confusion, chronic illness, Autism, etc.) can push us to our tipping point. Get to the root of those emotions; and gain the tools to rise above. I look forward to meeting you.