Susie Cobb

I’m Susie Cobb, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, PMH-C, and IPPE-C specializing in maternal mental health and reproductive grief and loss.

I work with women navigating infertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, infant loss, pregnancy after loss, birth trauma, perinatal anxiety and depression, postpartum adjustment, and the identity shifts that can accompany motherhood.

Much of my work lives in the places where two things are true at once: you can desperately want a baby and feel consumed by what it took to get here. You can love your child and struggle with motherhood. You can be grateful and grieving. You can survive something devastating and still not know how to live inside the life that came after it.

I believe therapy should have room for that complexity. You do not need to make your experience more positive, more coherent, or more comfortable before bringing it into the room. We can start with what is actually true.

My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and evidence-based, but I don’t believe therapy should feel like a collection of techniques being applied to you.

I draw from attachment and family systems theories, CBT, ACT, and DBT to understand both what is happening now and the experiences and relationships that shaped how you learned to move through the world. Sometimes our work is practical: learning to manage anxiety, intrusive thoughts, overwhelm, or trauma responses. Sometimes it means understanding patterns that have followed you for years. And sometimes the work is learning how to live alongside something that cannot be fixed or undone.

I have advanced training in perinatal mental health and reproductive grief and loss, including my PMH-C, Postpartum Support International’s advanced perinatal grief and loss training, and specialized training and certification through the International Partnership for Perinatal Excellence (IPPE).

I won’t rush your grief, pathologize a normal response to an abnormal experience, or assume that feeling better is always the same thing as healing. My job is to help you understand what is happening beneath the surface, build the capacity to meet it differently, and identify what may need to change.

You do not need to arrive at your first session knowing exactly what is wrong, what you want to work on, or where the story begins.

We’ll start with what brought you in.

I’ll ask questions to understand what has been happening, what feels hardest right now, what you have already been carrying, and what you hope therapy might make possible. We may talk about your relationships, your history, pregnancy or birth experiences, loss, motherhood, or whatever else is important to understanding you in context.

You can cry. You can swear. You can tell me you don’t know how you feel. You can love your baby and hate motherhood that day. You can tell me something you have been afraid to say out loud.

You don’t need to perform wellness for me.

The first session isn’t about telling your entire life story or figuring everything out. It’s the beginning of making sense of what you’re carrying, together.