A specialized 12-week OCD recovery program for mothers who are trapped in “what if” spirals, compulsive checking, and unrelenting fear.

Private 1:1 support from a trained psychologist and certified RTT® practitioner to reclaim your peace, your confidence, and your life.

If this sounds like you, it might be postpartum OCD or perinatal OCD…

Your mind feels stuck on your baby’s safety, even when there’s no clear reason to worry. Thoughts like “What if I missed something?” or “What if something bad happens and it’s my fault?” keep looping, no matter how much you try to reassure yourself.

You love your baby so much it terrifies you. And somehow, that love has turned into fear you can’t turn off. You want to enjoy this precious time with your baby, but you’re consumed by fear.

And you haven’t told anyone the full truth of what’s spiraling in your head, because you’re afraid no one will understand.

You might find yourself:

  • Waking in a panic at 3am (again) to make sure your baby’s still breathing

  • Googling symptoms or seeking reassurance (hello, babycenter forum... we meet yet again) to feel certain you haven’t missed something—”Was that funny movement she just made a normal reflex or is something seriously wrong with her?”

  • Comparing your baby’s “stats” (e.g., head circumference, weight, height, etc.) to growth charts to “make sure” everything is normal

  • Overanalyzing your baby’s bowel movements, reflux, feeding schedule, and milestones and feeling panicked about anything slightly out of the ordinary

  • Mentally reviewing interactions or decisions to make sure you didn’t make a mistake

  • Avoiding situations, people, or places that feel even slightly risky to your baby’s safety

  • Waking with a sense of impending doom and fearing for the day ahead

  • Feeling tense, jumpy, or unable to fully relax—even during quiet moments—and finding it difficult… impossible even… to enjoy this precious season of motherhood

  • Grieving for your pre-motherhood days when you didn’t feel panicked all the time

  • Feeling like you’ve lost yourself… or at least your mind, and worrying that you’ll never feel like the “old you” again

  • Questioning your ability to care for your baby, because you’re struggling to care for yourself right now

Postpartum OCD often shows up as intrusive thoughts paired with an intense need to prevent harm.

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted and distressing, and they say nothing about your baby’s health, your values, your love for your baby, or your ability as a mother.

What’s happening isn’t a lack of love or motherly instinct, it’s the result of a nervous system stuck in high alert, trying desperately to keep your baby safe.

It’s the preciousness of your baby—and the vulnerability of loving something so innocent, so fragile—that makes the urge to protect their well-being feel so unbearably dire.


What’s actually happening…

Here’s what most people don’t know about postpartum OCD…

It’s not the intrusive thoughts that keep the cycle going. It’s what you do in response to them.

Every time you check, review, reassure, avoid, or try to mentally “solve” the fear, you’re unintentionally telling your nervous system the threat is real.

And the cycle tightens.

As the cycle tightens, feelings of fear and anxiety increase, and your world shrinks smaller and smaller… 

There’s something else worth naming too…

Every time OCD pulls you toward a compulsion (mental or physical), it’s pulling you away from something else—your baby, your presence, your values, the mother you actually want to be.

That gap between who OCD is making you and who you know you are? That’s one of the most painful parts about postpartum OCD.

The good news: The postpartum OCD cycle can be interrupted and re-routed so that the fear decreases, a sense of inner safety is restored, and your world is no longer constricted and confined.

Part of postpartum OCD recovery is learning to recognize that fear-based pull, and choosing differently than the urge of fear would have you choose. Because short-term relief strengthens long-term anxiety.

We don’t need to “solve” the scary intrusive thoughts—in fact, trying to do so only intensifies them. We need to create the internal space and felt sense of safety required to tolerate uncertainty and the anxious feelings it produces.

We learn to feel the fear and stay with it without letting it move us, push us around, or dictate our thinking/actions (or inactions).


Hi, I’m Ashley.

I know how heavy the burden is that you’re carrying, because I’ve carried it before too—twice, actually.

I experienced postpartum OCD after the birth of both of my children. I know how convincing the fear feels, how relentless the mental loops become, and how isolating it is to carry the terror quietly while trying to care for a baby. I also know how upsetting it feels when your innocent newborn becomes the primary trigger for your worst fears.

I tried CBT. I tried mindfulness. I tried medication. I tried meditation. I tried EFT. I tried herbs and supplements. I tried special elimination diets. I tried ERP… twice. It all helped… for a while. But the fear kept finding new forms, new targets, new ways in. Because the work addressed the surface-level contents of the intrusive thoughts rather than the core wound behind them. 

Trying to address the specific fears one at a time felt like playing a game of whack-a-mole I’d never win… there was always a new fear, always a new way for OCD to take hold. 

Once I began to study the subconscious mind, I realized that I didn’t need to understand the specific contents of the OCD thoughts better… I needed to understand the root fear that was driving them. I needed to understand the subconscious core wound underneath all the scary thoughts. Because it was that core wound (in my case, the fear of being left behind due to my own negligence) that continuously fueled the cycle.

That’s what this program is built on. Not just learning how to manage symptoms but discovering and resolving the root cause (core wound) that creates the symptoms to begin with.

I hold an Ed.S. in psychology, certifications in Rapid Transformational Therapy® and hypnotherapy, and I’ve hosted a psychology-focused podcast for four years. But the most important thing I bring to this work is that I’ve sat exactly where you are, and I know the way out.


Program Structure

The Postpartum OCD Recovery Program is a 12-week, high-touch 1:1 program built on The 4R Method™—a specialized methodology that guides mothers through four intentional phases: Regulate, Reveal, Rewire, and Return to Resilience.

Phase 1:Regulate.
Calm the nervous system enough to do the deeper work.

Phase 2:Reveal.
Uncover the root-cause subconscious beliefs (core fears) driving the OCD cycle.

Phase 3:Rewire.
Replace fear-based beliefs with values-driven beliefs using RTT®, hypnotherapy, nervous system regulation tools, and ACT-informed values work.

Phase 4:Return to Resilience.
Arrive somewhere stronger than where you started, with a repeatable and personalized approach to resilience that travels with you into every life season that follows.

The Postpartum OCD Recovery Program is a private, non-psychotherapy support program. It is informed by clinical training and evidence-based principles, but it is not psychotherapy, not diagnostic care, and not a replacement for local mental health treatment.


The Transformation

BEFORE:

  • Hours lost to checking, googling, mental reviewing

  • Hypervigilance constantly running in the background and driving decisions

  • Loving your baby through a fog of fear

  • Doubting your ability to make it through each day

  • Feeling like you can’t trust yourself to adequately care for yourself or your baby

  • Feeling trapped in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole with new fears always popping up

  • Bandaid fixes that soothe symptoms but fail to address the root cause

AFTER:

  • Present with your baby and enjoying this precious season of life

  • Clarity about and resolution of the root cause (core wound) that created the OCD to begin with

  • A regulated nervous system and a repeatable approach to build, maintain, and return to safety time and time again

  • Fewer compulsions, less rumination, more life

  • Feeling confident in your own resilience and knowing that you can handle anything that comes your way

  • Living in alignment with your values, having reclaimed your presence in the moments OCD once stole

  • Restored trust in your ability to care for your baby and yourself

  • A repeatable approach to resilience that travels with you in life—into another baby, a hard year, whatever comes next

This support is for you if…

You’re a new mother experiencing intrusive thoughts, compulsive checking, or relentless “what if” fears.

You’re ready to reduce compulsions and rumination, even if the thought of that feels scary right now.

You can commit to 12 weeks of weekly sessions and a daily audio practice.

You’re looking for a specialized coaching program, not a substitute for therapy.


You’re not broken, and you’re not alone.

Intrusive thought loops are common in postpartum OCD and trying to think your way out of them often backfires by producing even more fearful thoughts. Calm, structured support helps restore safety within.

This support is not for you if…

Finding the right kind of support matters.

This private postpartum OCD support is designed for mothers who are struggling with intrusive thoughts and rumination, compulsive checking, and constant worry—and who are able to engage in structured, non-crisis-based care.

There are times when a different kind of support is more appropriate, and choosing that doesn’t mean you’ve failed or that your situation is “too much.” It means you deserve the right level of care.

This support may not be the best fit for you if:

  • You are experiencing thoughts of harming yourself or your baby and feel at risk of acting on them

  • You need emergency, inpatient, or intensive outpatient care

  • You’re experiencing psychosis, hallucinations, or a loss of contact with reality without additional clinical support.

  • You are in an acute mental health crisis or need immediate stabilization

  • You are looking for constant reassurance, on-demand messaging, or immediate emotional rescue.

  • You’re not open to structured boundaries around checking behaviors, rumination (e.g., mental reviewing), and reassurance-seeking.

If any of these apply, I strongly encourage you to seek immediate help through:

  • Your local emergency services

  • A crisis hotline or postpartum mental health helpline

  • Your OB-GYN, primary care provider, or local mental health clinic

If you’re unsure what level of care is right, reaching out to a medical or mental health professional for guidance can be a meaningful first step. Getting the right support is an act of care for you and for your baby.

The Postpartum OCD Recovery Program

A 12-week private care container designed to provide calm, structured, ethical support for mothers experiencing Postpartum OCD.

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