Adored Mothers Perinatal Therapy Center, PLLC
Where women and children are empowered to AMPlify their life.
Angela Pidala, MSW, LCSW-S, PMH-C, RPT™
"Healing doesn't mean forgetting. It means learning to carry your story with support, compassion, and hope."
Photo by Angela Pidala
SPECIALTIES
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Miscarriage
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Stillbirth
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Infertility
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Child-loss
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Birth Trauma
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Disenfranchised Grief
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Perinatal Loss Moms Group (Coming Soon!)
What is Perinatal Loss Counseling?
Perinatal loss counseling provides compassionate support for moms navigating the grief that can accompany reproductive and pregnancy-related losses. While every loss story is unique, the emotional impact can be profound, affecting your mental health, relationships, sense of identity, and hopes for the future.
Perinatal loss can include:
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Miscarriage
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Stillbirth
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Infant loss
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Infertility and fertility challenges
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Failed fertility treatments
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Recurrent pregnancy loss
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Birth trauma
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Child loss
The grief that follows these experiences is often complex and deeply personal. Many moms find themselves carrying feelings of sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, anxiety, or isolation while trying to navigate a world that may not fully understand their pain.
At Adored Mothers Perinatal Therapy Center, we provide a safe, supportive space to process your experience, honor your loss, and move through grief at your own pace. Our therapists understand the unique challenges of perinatal loss and offer evidence-based, compassionate care that helps you feel seen, supported, and less alone.
Whether your loss occurred recently or years ago, healing is possible. You do not have to carry this grief by yourself.
Why does Perinatal Loss happen?
One of the most common and painful questions after a pregnancy or infant loss is, "Why did this happen?"
The truth is that perinatal loss can occur for many different reasons, and in some cases, there may never be a clear answer. Medical factors, genetic conditions, pregnancy complications, maternal health concerns, fertility challenges, infections, birth complications, and other circumstances can all contribute to pregnancy or infant loss. Sometimes, despite thorough medical evaluation and excellent prenatal care, a loss remains unexplained.
For many moms, the uncertainty surrounding a loss can be especially difficult to process. It is common to search for answers, replay events, blame yourself, question decisions, or wonder if something could have been done differently. These thoughts often come from a deep desire to make sense of an experience that feels heartbreaking and overwhelming.
It is important to know that perinatal loss is rarely caused by something a parent did or did not do. Most losses occur because of factors beyond anyone's control.
While understanding the medical reasons behind a loss can sometimes be helpful, healing often involves addressing the emotional impact as well. Grief, sadness, anger, guilt, anxiety, confusion, and feelings of isolation are all common responses to loss.
At Adored Mothers Perinatal Therapy Center, we provide a compassionate space to explore these questions, process your emotions, and navigate the unique grief that follows perinatal loss. Whether you have answers or are living with uncertainty, your experience deserves support, understanding, and care.
What is Disenfranchised Grief?
Disenfranchised grief is a fancy word for grief that is not fully recognized, acknowledged, or supported by others. It often occurs when a loss is minimized, misunderstood, or considered invisible by society, family members, friends, or even healthcare providers.
Many forms of perinatal loss can lead to disenfranchised grief, including:
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Early pregnancy loss or miscarriage
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Infertility and fertility struggles
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Failed IVF cycles
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Pregnancy after loss
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Stillbirth and infant loss
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The loss of future dreams, expectations, or identities connected to parenthood
Parents experiencing disenfranchised grief often hear comments such as, "At least it happened early," "You can always try again," or "Everything happens for a reason." While often well-intended, these responses can leave grieving moms feeling dismissed, isolated, and unsupported.
The reality is that your grief is real, valid, and deserving of care.
In counseling, we create space for the losses that others may not fully understand. Together, we can process your emotions, cry together, explore the impact of your experience, develop coping strategies, and find ways to honor your story and your healing journey.
You do not need permission from anyone else to grieve. Your loss matters, and so does your healing.
How can perinatal loss counseling help me?
Experiencing a pregnancy, infant, or child loss can affect every part of your life. You may find yourself struggling with overwhelming emotions, changes in your relationships, anxiety about the future, difficulty functioning day-to-day, or feeling disconnected from those around you. Grief after perinatal loss is deeply personal, and there is no right or wrong way to navigate it.
Perinatal loss counseling provides a safe, compassionate space to process your experience and receive support from a therapist who understands the unique challenges of reproductive and pregnancy-related grief.
Many moms feel pressure to "move on" or return to normal after a loss. Counseling offers a space where you don't have to rush your healing or minimize your experience. Your story can be shared openly, your emotions can be honored, and your grief can be met with understanding.
Whether your loss happened recently or years ago, support can help you feel less alone and more equipped to navigate the journey ahead. Healing does not mean forgetting your loss. It means learning how to carry it with compassion, support, and hope.