Still Us

A private series preparing your relationship for baby.

You have thought about the nursery. You have a birth plan, a hospital bag, and a car seat that took three weeks to research. You are ready for the baby.

Almost no one prepares for what a baby does to the relationship.

Most couples cannot predict the arguments that seem to come from nowhere or the slow drift that settles in between two people who love each other but are suddenly managing so much that they forget to reach for each other. The way intimacy changes. The way identities shift. The way the invisible weight of labor distributes itself unevenly before either of you has noticed it happening.

Research shows that relationship satisfaction declines significantly for most couples in the first year after a baby. Most of them walked into one of life's biggest transitions without a map.

The couples who move through this well are the ones who understood what was coming before it arrived. They had language for what they were feeling and tools they had already practiced, so that when things got hard they were not starting from scratch at the worst possible moment.

That is what Still Us is built for.

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What Makes Still Us Different

Still Us is a private, one couple at a time series of guided sessions. This is not a group class or a childbirth preparation program. Every session is designed around your relationship, your patterns, and the life you are building together.

Each session closes with This Week's Tools, a concrete practice to bring into your daily life before the next session. The goal is that by the time your baby arrives, this language, this understanding of your own patterns, these ways of reaching for each other, are already wired in. Already yours. So when you are exhausted and someone says the wrong thing at midnight, you already know the path back.

Every Still Us package includes two postpartum check-ins, one around six to eight weeks after your baby arrives and one around three to four months. Because the real test of the work is how you find each other again once the baby is actually here.

Curious? Schedule a free discovery call.

Still Us is built around a modular structure. Every couple begins with the Core, three foundational sessions that establish a shared language and framework for everything that follows. From there, you choose the modules that fit where you are and what you need.

Each module stands on its own, and there is a pricing incentive for bundling. You will find all of that in the investment section below.

How Still Us Works

Begin here. Every couple embarking in the Still Us series will experience The Core and receive Postpartum Check ins.

The Core: The foundation everything else builds on.

What the research actually shows about the transition to parenthood, and why understanding it now matters. Most couples are genuinely surprised by how much changes between them in the first year after a baby. This session names what is coming so you can meet it together.
Why it matters: Couples who see the challenge coming navigate it differently.
Underneath every recurring argument is a pattern, and underneath the pattern is something one or both of you needs and hasn't been able to say directly. This session helps you find your cycle, name it, and begin to see each other differently inside it.
Why it matters: When couples hear what is underneath each other's words, the whole shape of the conflict changes.
How to recognize when your nervous system has taken over, how to take a break that feels like care, and how to find your way back to each other. Repair is a skill. This session gives you tools to practice it before you need it most.
Why it matters: Repair is what protects relationships through hard seasons.

POSTPARTUM CHECK-INS (included in every package)

Two sessions are built into every Still Us package, one around six to eight weeks postpartum and one around three to four months. This is where you return to the work with real data instead of hypotheticals. How did the tools land? What surprised you? Where do you need more support? You will not be starting from scratch. You will be coming back to something you already built together.

Module Options: Still Us provides the flexibility to choose which Modules fit into your needs and timeline. The suggested sequence after The Core is to follow with needed modules in A, B, C order.

MODULE A: Who You Are Becoming

The self that is changing and what that means for the two of you.

Matrescence. Patrescence. The identity transformation that is already happening for both of you, often at different paces and in different directions. The grief that lives alongside the joy. What you each need to stay yourselves while becoming someone new, and how to stay connected to each other while you are both mid-transformation.
Why it matters: Couples who can name what they are going through stay close rather than finding themselves on opposite sides of it without knowing why.
The picture you carried in without realizing it. What you watched your parents do or not do. What you each imagined this would look like, individually and as a couple. This session brings those pictures into the open so you can look at them together honestly before the baby arrives and reality begins filling in the gaps.
Why it matters: The expectations that go unspoken tend to become the resentments that go unexplained.
Everything in A1 and A2 is real and hard and normal. Sometimes the hard tips into something that needs more than time and support. This session covers perinatal mood disorders for both partners in plain language. What depression, anxiety, and rage actually look like in real life. How to tell the difference. The shared plan you build together before either of you needs it.
Why it matters: Partner support is one of the most powerful protective factors available. This session gives you the language and the plan.

MODULE B: Creating Shared Meaning

The life you are building on purpose.

What does home mean to each of you. What does work mean. Money. Time. Rest. Security. This session surfaces each partner's core values and looks honestly at where those values came from. The partner who gets activated around finances is carrying something real. Understanding what each other is carrying changes the whole conversation.
Why it matters: When couples know what is underneath each other's reactions, they can stay curious rather than defended.
With each partner's values on the table, this session looks at where you naturally align and where you see things differently. How do you make decisions together when you want different things. How do you honor what matters to both of you even when it pulls in different directions. This is where the coparenting alliance begins to take shape, a set of shared commitments about the kind of family you are building and why.
Why it matters: A coparenting alliance built on purpose holds up better than one assembled on the fly.
What fills each of you up. What quality time looks like when time is genuinely scarce. What happens to closeness, physical and emotional, when a baby is also in the picture. This session is an honest conversation about staying connected inside a life that is about to look different, and what you each need to feel chosen by the other even on the hard days.
Why it matters: Couples who have this conversation before the postpartum period are far better equipped to navigate it with care.

MODULE C: Building the Life

Where values meet real life.

Who is responsible for knowing the thing needs to be done, not just doing it. That distinction is where a lot of postpartum resentment lives. This session gets explicit about the invisible labor that tends to accumulate unevenly and quietly. Where your domestic defaults came from. What fairness looks like to each of you and why. And the practical agreements you make together now so you are not negotiating them at your most depleted.
Why it matters: Perceived fairness in division of labor is one of the strongest predictors of postpartum relationship satisfaction.
Isolation is one of the strongest risk factors for the postpartum period and one of the least addressed in prenatal preparation. This session gets concrete. Who is in your village. What each person can realistically offer. What asking for help actually looks like for each of you. A real support map, built before you need it.
Why it matters: A support plan built in advance is the one you will actually use.

Wondering Where to Begin?

The suggested flow is Core first, then Module A, B, and C in order. That sequence is intentional. Each module builds on the emotional and relational groundwork laid before it.

That said, every couple comes in with different needs, different timelines, and different places where they are feeling the most pressure.

If you are not sure which modules make sense for you or where to start, that is exactly what the discovery call is for. It is a free twenty minute conversation where we can look at where you are, what feels most urgent, and build a plan that fits.

Not sure where to start? Let's figure it out together.

Investment

Still Us is priced to make this work accessible. Most couples who invest in their relationship now spend a fraction of what ongoing therapy costs after the postpartum period has already taken its toll. This is the proactive option, and it is priced to reflect that.

Core Series (5 sessions, including postpartum check-ins) $499

Core plus One Module (7-8 sessions, including postpartum check-ins) $699 | You save $100 off the individual session rate

Core plus Two Modules (9-10 sessions, including postpartum check-ins) $899 | You save $150

Full Still Us Series (13 sessions, including postpartum check-ins) $1,199 | You save $250

A 25% deposit holds your spot. Remaining balance can be paid in full or through a personalized payment plan.

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About Jackie

I am a mom of two. When I had my children, there was very little open conversation about perinatal mental health, and none about what the postpartum period does to a couple's relationship. After my second child was born, I experienced Postpartum Anxiety, but did not know it at the time. I had no language for what was happening to me. I just knew there was a pressure and an urgency to do everything right, and that the pressure of that made it harder to let my partner in.

Nearly ten years later, I look back at that time with a bittersweet fondness. Growing our family was special and wonderful, and yet it was harder than it needed to be because we did not have the knowledge, the language, or the tools to talk about what was actually happening to us and between us.

Here is what I have learned since then: almost every woman I speak with has some version of this story. The sleepless nights, the feeling of doing it alone, the distance that crept in with their partner, the sense that something was off but no one was saying it out loud. It is the worst kept secret in new parenthood. And yet we keep not talking about it, which means we keep not getting better at it.

When I moved into the field of perinatal mental health, I understood that opening this conversation earlier is one of the most meaningful things I can do. Still Us is my attempt to do exactly that, to normalize the preparation this season requires, and to give couples an honest framework for what is coming so they can move through it together rather than managing alongside each other.

Having spent my first career as an educator, I have always believed that knowledge changes outcomes. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and the Gottman Method, and I bring an attachment lens to everything I do. I believe that relationships are the foundation of wellbeing, and that the prenatal period is one of the most important and most overlooked opportunities to tend to your relationship.

Let’s Talk It Through

Not sure where to start or which modules make sense for you? That is exactly what the discovery call is for. It is a free, twenty minute conversation where you can ask questions, get a feel for the work, and figure out together what the right fit looks like. No commitment required.