Making Space for the Political in Perinatal Therapy

Individual Coaching & Mentorship

Personalized support for therapists ready to bring politics into the therapy room with greater confidence and clinical intention


Making Space for Politics in Perinatal Therapy is a seven-week, live virtual group coaching and clinical consultation experience designed to help you confidently navigate the intersection of politics, systemic realities, and perinatal mental health.

Through focused training, clinical discussion, consultation, coaching, practical tools, and community, you'll develop the skills to recognize political distress, bring it into the therapy room, and support clients in exploring how the world around them shapes their experiences of pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood.

This isn't about teaching you politics or convincing you to agree with my political beliefs. It's about helping you feel confident in talking with clients about their political concerns, even when those conversations feel complicated, emotionally charged, or unfamiliar.

Because motherhood is political. And therapy should be too.


This is the training you've been missing

Perinatal clients are no longer only coming to therapy for support with the transition to parenthood. They are also navigating what it means to bring kids into a world of school shootings, reproductive rights restrictions, climate change, genocides, and the lack of structural support for families. They're questioning what it means to bring children into this world. They're trying to care for themselves and their babies while carrying the emotional weight of everything happening around them.

For many clients, political realities aren't separate from their perinatal mental health, they're a significant part of it.

Do you feel equipped to help navigate this intersection?

You may have received training in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, reproductive challenges, and matrescence, but where do we learn to recognize political distress when it isn't explicitly named? How do we make room for a client's political concerns without imposing our own beliefs? What do we say when a client is grieving the world they’ve brought their child into? And how do we navigate these conversations ethically, confidently, and with clinical intention?

Making Space for the Political is opportunity to deepen your expertise as a perinatal therapist by taking the skills you already have and expanding them to account for the world your clients are living in.

Learn from someone who’s already doing this work

Hi! I’m Dr. Suzanne Mungalez, a clinical perinatal psychologist, birthworker, educator, and mother of two. The crux of my perinatal work has been supporting people who are pregnant, postpartum, and navigating early parenthood, while creating space for the politics that make parenting hard in the first place. I’ve been able to fill my one-on-one therapy caseload by meeting clients where they’re at, both within their internal world and the larger external world.

In addition to 1:1 therapy and courses that meet parents at this intersection, I’ve been facilitating seasonal prenatal and postpartum support groups specifically focused on birthing and raising babies in uncertain political times. The fact that these groups continue to sell out during every launch is a testament to the true need for therapists and providers that are adept at navigating the overlap between the perinatal and the political.

If you are familiar with my work, you know that I’ve also built an Instagram community through @its.themamaspace around the belief that parenting is political. The mothers and parents who connect with my work are looking for supportive providers who understand that modern motherhood is shaped by more than individual choices or personal coping skills. They're navigating the emotional realities of parenthood while also thinking about reproductive autonomy, public policy, systemic inequities, the world their kids will grow up in, and what it means to raise a family in this particular moment.

Their experiences reinforce my belief that parents need perinatal providers who can make space for the world they're living in. I created this program because there is a clear gap between what perinatal therapists are trained to do and what many clients need us to be able to do.

I want to help close that gap.

Your $777 investment includes…

  • 7 live virtual modules across 7 weeks: A structured learning experience that builds from foundational concepts to clinical application.

  • 6 group consultation sessions: Opportunities to bring questions, explore clinical dilemmas, and receive guidance as you work through the material.

  • Coaching and facilitated discussion: Support in connecting the concepts to your own clinical practice, values, and professional questions.

  • Practical clinical tools: Adaptable language, frameworks, and interventions to help you integrate the learning into your work.

  • A private Signal group chat: A space for connection, discussion, and peer support between sessions, so learning doesn't have to stop when we log off.

  • A community of clinicians: An opportunity to learn alongside other perinatal therapists who recognize this gap and want to approach this work with greater confidence and intention.


Frequently Asked Questions


Looking for more individualized support?

If you're looking for a more personalized experience, with space to focus on your specific clinical questions, challenges, and goals, individual coaching may be a better fit.

I also offer individual coaching for perinatal therapists who want more focused, one-on-one support in navigating the intersection of politics and perinatal mental health.