Mental Health Peer Support
for the Perinatal Period & Early Parenthood Years.
FREE SMALL GROUP SUPPORT SESSIONS
(GOLD COAST)
Supporting all Mothers and Parents... in every stage of the Perinatal Period & Early Parenthood Years
Free Small Group Peer Support Sessions - Gold Coast -
Free Small Group Peer Support Sessions - Gold Coast -
About Us
Motherhood Village Ltd is a Gold Coast charity passionate about supporting local mothers, parents and families. We provide free perinatal mental health support via peer group sessions to mothers and parents who have prior or existing perinatal mental ill health, to mothers and parents who are finding the postpartum period difficult or challenging, and to help those that may be feeling isolated or alone in their struggles.
Our goal is to create a safe, welcoming space where parents can connect, share experiences, and access vital support.
Benefits of Peer Support During the Perinatal & Early Parenthood Years…
Immediate Impacts of Peer Support
Perinatal mental health peer support involves individuals who have experienced, or who are experiencing perinatal mental health challenges, providing support to one another using their lived experience as commonality. We use both a recovered and recovering peer support approach at Motherhood Village Ltd.
Peer Support can be integrated into your treatment plan, to compliment your professional care from your GP and Psychology team. This allows you to have a holistic approach to meet your emotional, psychological, and practical needs.
Validating your experience
Reducing the barriers to disclosure
Safe and inclusive community group of peers
Reducing feelings of isolation by fostering a sense of belonging, solidarity, encouragement and community.
Bridging the time gap between clinical support sessions.
Providing a holistic approach for perinatal mental health.
Raising awareness and education in the community
Holistic approach to your mental health & wellbeing
Supporting you from a place of lived experience…
Our Peer Leaders have lived through, and recovered from, a range of Perinatal Mental Health challenges.
They now use this lived experience, along with training & education in Mental Health Peer Support Work to safely help other Mothers and Parents who are facing their own Perinatal Mental Health challenges.
As a peer, we are able to provide a non-judgemental space for you to express your feelings, thoughts and concerns. This lived experience led support can help alleviate your feelings of isolation, anxiety, and depression. It helps normalise your feelings.
Attending our sessions allows for a sense of ongoing connection, reduces loneliness and helps you feel supported in between your specialist sessions.
Our group sessions are the perfect safe place to meet other mothers experiencing similar challenges, to share and listen to each unique story, to feel less alone in your own journey.
Why is Motherhood Village Ltd Unique?
Parenthood can be both incredibly wonderful and at the same time incredibly difficult. We believe motherhood (parenthood) is both an innate and a learnt skill, and that it really does take a village to not only raise a child, but that it also takes a village to support the parents.
We offer support for those who are new to parenthood, support to those who are having a difficult time, or who simply need help connecting and building their local support network and care providers. Motherhood Village Ltd was created to help anyone struggling with their mental health in the perinatal period, to be safe place for them to connect and find their village.
xx Tracey - Founding Director & CEO
Motherhood Village Ltd is most well known for small group perinatal mental health peer support sessions. These are a safe and non judgmental space for anyone finding the perinatal period difficult. They are for the mother or parent who isn’t finding Parenthood to be what they expected, for any parent who is in need of a local village and connection, for any mother or parent facing perinatal mental health challenges or feeling alone…. These sessions are YOUR time to connect with other mothers and parents who are facing similar experiences.
If you are feeling alone in your parenthood journey, or if you need confidence in building your skills and knowledge as a parent, or if you are unsure that what you are feeling or thinking is normal - that is where we come in.
We can help. We can support you, and help you build your village.
Please come along to one of our sessions - we would love to welcome you.
