Free Masterclasses & Webinars
Phoenix Health hosts free, expert-led masterclasses for parents navigating the perinatal years. Beyond one-on-one therapy, our webinars are a community resource covering matrescence, neurodivergent parenting, sleep, feeding your family, returning to work, and the mental health topics most families wrestle with in silence.
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Maternity Leave and Your New Identity as a Working Mom
Dr. Emily Guarnotta + Alexa Starks, Founder of Executive Moms
How to build a realistic leave plan, stage a gradual return to work, and move through the identity shift of working motherhood with more clarity and self-compassion.
Watch RecordingNavigating the Transition Back to the Office
Dr. Emily Guarnotta + Lexi Montee Busch, VP of Marketing at Happiest Baby
A conversation on managing sleep deprivation, protecting your emotional wellbeing, and mastering the work-life balance as you return from parental leave.
Watch RecordingFrom Surviving to Thriving
Dr. Emily Guarnotta + Alix Myers, Birth & Postpartum Doula
Practical strategies for neurodivergent parents navigating pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, including sensory overwhelm, executive function, and building routines that actually work.
Watch RecordingWhat We Cover
Matrescence is the psychological, hormonal, and identity transformation of becoming a mother, a term coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973 and only recently entering mainstream conversation. For working moms, this shift collides with maternity leave, return-to-office pressures, and a professional identity built long before baby arrived. The grief, disorientation, and quiet pride of this in-between are normal and deeply under-supported. Phoenix Health treats matrescence as a developmental passage deserving the same care as adolescence, with clinical support for the identity work it asks of you.
Explore articles on career and motherhood →ADHD, autism, and other forms of neurodivergence interact with the perinatal period in ways standard parenting advice rarely acknowledges. Sensory sensitivities sharpen under sleep deprivation. Executive function strains against the relentless invisible labor of a newborn. Many neurodivergent parents have spent decades masking, and early parenthood is often when that strategy finally breaks. This is not a character flaw or a parenting failure, it is a nervous system asking for a different kind of scaffolding. Specialized support, honest community, and clinicians who understand neurodivergence make a measurable difference.
Explore articles on ADHD and parenting →The relationship between postpartum sleep and mental health runs in both directions. Fragmented sleep amplifies anxiety, blunts emotional regulation, and lowers the threshold for depressive symptoms, while anxiety itself makes it harder to sleep when the window finally opens. Returning to work compounds the strain, layering deadlines and public composure onto the invisible second shift most mothers carry home each night. Real improvement starts with naming what you are actually carrying, protecting a realistic sleep floor, and building clinical support around the reality of your schedule, not an idealized one.
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