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Mayflower Counseling offers Compassionate, Trauma-Informed Therapy for Women, Mothers & Couples

Anchored in relationship, grounded in clinical excellence, with empathy and understanding rooted in experience, I provide specialized support for pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy and infant loss, perinatal trauma, women’s issues, and the many complexities of motherhood.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, carrying the weight of grief, struggling to recognize yourself, or simply longing for a refuge where you can exhale, therapy offers a space to slow down, feel deeply understood, and move toward healing at a pace that honors your unique story.

Pregnancy

Postpartum

Perinatal Loss

Motherhood

Women's Mental Health

Pregnancy ✽ Postpartum ✽ Perinatal Loss ✽ Motherhood ✽ Women's Mental Health ✽

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Pregnancy & Postpartum

Whether you’re adjusting to pregnancy, recovering after birth, pregnant after loss, or just feeling off in a way you can’t quite explain—you’re not alone.

This is a space where you can show up as you are. There’s no pressure to have the right words or to hold it all together. Just a place to feel seen, understood, and supported.

We’ll take it one step at a time—making sense of what you’ve been carrying and finding tools and support that not only help, but also align with what matters most to you—and feel sustainable in your real, everyday life.

𑁍 Pregnancy and Postpartum Support

𑁍 Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADS)

𑁍 Body Image, Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating in Pregnancy and Postpartum

𑁍 High Risk Pregnancy

𑁍 Pregnancy after Loss (PAL)

𑁍 Trying to Conceive (TTC)

𑁍 Perinatal Trauma

𑁍 Prenatal Diagnoses (Fetal Diagnoses, Life-Limiting Diagnoses and Maternal Health Diagnoses)

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Pregnancy Loss, Infant Loss, and Stillbirth

The loss of a pregnancy or baby is a kind of grief that can feel both all-consuming and invisible at the same time. It changes you—and yet so much of it is carried quietly, often without others fully seeing or understanding. You deserve a space where your grief is not only welcome, but deeply understood.

Whether your loss was recent or years ago, it still matters. Your grief matters. Your baby matters. And you are not expected to simply “get over” your loss. In our work together, we will gently begin to process and integrate your grief while also making space to reconnect with hope.

As a clinician who has personally experienced infant loss, I understand how life-altering perinatal loss can be—from the loss of identity and sense of safety, to the secondary losses that often surface in the months that follow. I bring both professional training and personal experience into this work, so you don’t have to explain or justify your grief in order to feel seen.

Please Note: I do provide Couples Counseling, but only for couples seeking support with Perinatal Loss

𑁍 Rare and/or Life-Limiting Fetal Diagnoses

𑁍 Palliative Care and Anticipatory Grief

𑁍 Recurrent Loss

𑁍 Ectopic Pregnancy

𑁍 Any and all forms of perinatal loss

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Motherhood

Motherhood is a beautiful experience, and it can also bring up unexpected challenges. From the loss of identity, shifting roles and relationships, to carrying the mental load and navigating burnout and fatigue—moms carry so much.

And while we love our children and would do anything for them, it’s also okay to say we miss feeling like ourselves.

In our work together, we’ll gently reconnect you to your values and sense of identity, and explore what it looks like to bring more balance and care into your everyday life. Motherhood can be hard—but it doesn’t have to feel impossible. You deserve not only to recognize yourself again, but to truly know yourself.

𑁍 Identity and Adjustments in Motherhood

𑁍 Burnout and Overwhelm

𑁍 Loneliness

𑁍 Boundaries in Motherhood

𑁍 Relational Challenges within Parenting

𑁍 Parenting Skills and Resources

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Women’s Mental Health

You Don't Have to Carry It All Alone

Women often find themselves caring for everyone else while quietly carrying the weight of their own emotions. You may look like you're managing everything on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or disconnected on the inside.

Therapy isn't about "fixing" who you are—it's about helping you better understand yourself, process difficult experiences, and build the life and relationships you want.

Together, we can work toward:

  • Managing anxiety and chronic stress

  • Reducing symptoms of depression

  • Processing grief and loss

  • Healing from trauma

  • Strengthening self-esteem and self-compassion

  • Navigating life transitions with confidence

  • Developing healthy boundaries

  • Improving communication and relationships

  • Reconnecting with your values and sense of identity

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Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a gentle, focused therapy approach that helps access and process what’s held in the nervous system—especially trauma, emotional pain, or places where you feel “stuck.”

Instead of relying only on talking through every detail of what you’ve been through, Brainspotting uses where you naturally hold attention in your visual field to help the brain and body begin to process experiences at a deeper, more somatic level. In other words, it works with your nervous system—not just your thoughts.

For Women and Mothers especially, this can be a supportive and relieving approach. You are already carrying so much—emotionally, mentally, and physically—and Brainspotting doesn’t ask you to add more to your plate or retell every detail of your story in order for healing to happen. It meets you where you are, in a way that is gentle, contained, and deeply relational.

Many people experience it as a way to gently unburden the nervous system, reduce emotional intensity, and create more space for regulation and calm. It can offer both immediate relief in the moment and deeper processing over time, without requiring you to constantly revisit the full weight of what you’ve lived through.

At its core, it’s a way of helping your system release what it’s been holding and allow your brain to do what it was created to do—heal—so you can feel more grounded, more present, and more like yourself again.

  • "I highly recommend Victoria. She is thoughtful, intentional, and committed to providing high-quality care. Anyone navigating pregnancy or the postpartum period would be very well supported by her."

    Hannah B

  • "I recommend Victoria Renken to any clients undergoing any kind of grief and loss regarding pregnancy, childbirth and parenting as she is not only a highly qualified, experienced therapist but is also a deeply humble and genuinely compassionate person."

    Angela S

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