You’ve Dreamed of Becoming a Mom.
You Never Imagined it Would Feel Like This.
Support for moms across Colorado who are exhausted by anxiety, panic and overthinking.
You told yourself it was just the hormones. Then it was just sleep deprivation.
Now you are awake again at 3am wondering if you’re doing something wrong, replaying every decision you’ve made today and Googling if “it is normal to worry this much.”
☀️Maternal Mental Health Specialist
Anxiety Counseling in Broomfield, Colorado
You don’t have to go through this alone.
Whether you're navigating infertility, anxiety during pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, or the mental load of parenting through perimenopause, I provide care rooted in hope, healing, and resilience.
Annika Papke, LPC, LAC, PMH-C, is a maternal mental health specialist who gets it - the mental load, the guilt, the feeling like you're failing at motherhood no matter how hard you try - and helps you find your way back to yourself.
It doesn’t have to be this hard. I can help.
SPECIALIZED SUPPORT
Support for the Whole Journey
Motherhood touches every part of your life - your identity, your relationships, your body, your sense of who you are outside of everyone else's needs. You don't have to carry that alone. I offer therapy built around whatever stage you're in - trying to conceive, pregnancy, the newborn haze, or the mental load of parenting through perimenopause - with tools that fit what you're actually going through, not generic advice to just relax and enjoy it.
The tracking, planning, waiting and the emotional rollercoaster of fertility treatment cycles.
Racing thoughts, worst-case scenarios, and a mind that won't stop scanning for what could go wrong. Support for the anxiety that shows up right when you're supposed to feel joy.
Perinatal OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
Unwanted, disturbing thoughts about your baby that terrify you precisely because you'd never act on them. You are not a danger to your child, and you are not alone in this.
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The racing heart, the constant checking, the inability to relax even when everyone tells you the baby is fine. Support for new moms whose brains won't let them rest.
Parenting in Perimenopause
For moms of tweens and teens who are also riding the perimenopause rollercoaster — and have zero patience left for it.
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A space for moms of kids at any age who get stuck in the what-if spiral - with other women who actually understand it.
WHO I WORK WITH
Specialized Anxiety Therapy for Women in Colorado
I work with women in Colorado who are tired of overthinking, second-guessing, and getting caught in the what-if spiral. If anxiety has started to show up for you somewhere along your journey of motherhood, it makes sense, and I can help. The women I work with are highly capable and are usually the ones who have it all together, so when this flavor of anxiety takes over, it can feel like a mindf*ck. Together we can get you back to a place where you don’t question yourself, and your choices aren’t driven by fear.
Trying To Conceive
Struggling to get pregnant and having to wait to move forward with fertility treatments.
Starting Fertility Treatment
Preparing emotionally for IUI, IVF, or other interventions.
Pregnant after Infertility
You are finally pregnant but terrified. Pregnancy after loss anxiety.
Pregnancy Anxiety
You want to be excited and you can’t stop worrying.
Perinatal OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
Having a safe space to talk about the unwanted scary thoughts.
Postpartum Anxiety
When seeking reassurance only helps momentarily and you are terrified something will go wrong.
Moms of older children
Adjusting to your own body changes at the same time as your teen.
Women of Colorado
Online help available for anyone in Colorado.
THE DIFFERENCE
Why See a Perinatal Therapist?
Specialized perinatal mental health counseling offers the understanding and support your journey deserves.
Knowledgeable about Fertility Care
You won’t have to explain IUI, IVF, or why the two-week wait is torture. We can focus on what matters, which is what this is doing to you, how you’re getting through it, and what you need right now.
Pregnancy & Postpartum Anxiety is Different
Pregnancy and postpartum anxiety have their own flavor of WTF is happening to me?? You need someone who understand intrusive thoughts, constant checking, mom guilt, and why being told “that’s normal” doesn’t actually make you feel any better.
Infertility Grief is Specific
The grief of infertility is its own kind of grief. It isn’t like other losses and is often minimized by others. There’s no clear ending and no socially understood way to grieve. This is a place where you don’t have to explain why or how it hurts.
No “It’s Just Hormones” or “Just Relax” Advise
You already know hormones are part of the picture, and if “just relax” worked, you would’ve done it by now. We’ll actually look at what is happening in your brain and body, and what will actually help.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
If you are tired of feeling overwhelmed, stuck in your thoughts, or like you’ve lost yourself, let’s talk.
Online therapy across Colorado & in-person sessions in Broomfield, Colorado.
Pregnancy & Postpartum anxiety therapy in Denver, Broomfield, Boulder, and throughout Colorado (virtual therapy available).
Let’s quiet the voices of self-doubt and get you feeling like yourself again.
Book a free consultation so we can connect!