Resources for Couples in Atlanta, GA

Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson

Hold Me Tight offers a revolutionary way to see and shape your relationships. The stories, ideas, and exercises, based on the science of love and the wisdom of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), walk the reader through seven conversations that can define a love relationship. Learn to shape these crucial relationship moments and create a secure bond that will last for a lifetime.

Hold Me Tight- Workshop for Couples

This workshop is based on the book, Hold Me Tight, by Dr. Sue Johnson, which is now in its 12th year of publication and has sold over half a million copies world-wide. Created for couples struggling with communication, intimacy and security, Hold Me Tight® is a two-day intensive Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) workshop held in metro-Atlanta to help couples heal broken bonds, and rekindle the spark that brought them together.

Pregnancy and postpartum resources in Atlanta, GA

Georgia Chapter of Postpartum Support International

PSI-GA is the Georgia state chapter of Postpartum Support International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to helping those suffering from perinatal mood disorders, the most common complication of childbirth.

Georgia Birth Network

The Georgia Birth Network supports both birth professionals and pregnant women.

Classes for babies and toddlers in Atlanta, GA

The Bunny Hive

The Bunny Hive is a boutique social studio to attend with your little one, ages two weeks to four years old, to enjoy classes like music, sensory, art, infant massage, ballet, culinary exploration, learning lab, story time, and more. We are located in beautiful downtown Chamblee, just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

Pelvic floor physical therapy in Atlanta, GA

Revelle – Women’s Physical Therapy

As women, and especially as moms, we are expected to be selfless and nurturing 24/7. Well, how can you give the world the best of you instead of what is just left of you? This is the sole reason why we created Revelle. Your pregnancy pain, postpartum struggles, and pelvic floor issues are real.

ATL Pelvic Health

Our goal at ATL Pelvic Health is to continue spreading awareness about pelvic floor physical therapy. The motherhood journey is a special season and I want to change the way women are cared for while pregnant and during the fourth trimester (& postpartum really is for the rest of your life!)

Renew Pelvic Health

We help people prevent and heal pelvic floor dysfunction using effective treatments and holistic guidance so they can enjoy pelvic health with comfort and confidence.

Chiropractors in Atlanta, GA

The Wellness Connection Atlanta

The Wellness Connection is an Atlanta-based chiropractic sanctuary. We help individuals and families express their healthiest lives through thinking well, eating well, moving well, and healing well in ways that are customized to the each client. You are DESIGNED to BE WELL; and we are here to help you achieve that.

Lotus of Life Chiropractic

At Lotus of Life, we offer different modalities to help you optimize your health. In our office, we offer BGI chiropractic care and Nutrition Response Testing.

Doulas in Atlanta, GA

Kelly Poptanycz

Kelly Poptanycz is the September Sun Doula providing birth doula services, birth stories gatherings, and birth support groups in Intown Atlanta and In the Perimeter ITP, including Old Fourth Ward, Little Five Points, Edgewood, Midtown, Downtown, Cabbagetown, Peoplestown, Summerhill, Decatur, Grant Park, Ormewood Park, Candler Park, East Atlanta Village, Virginia Highland, Ansley Park, Home Park, Buckhead, Underwood Hills, Kirkwood, West End, Oakhurst, and North Druid Hills. I would love to speak with you about your upcoming birth!

Lactation consultants in Atlanta, GA

Lactation Consultants of Atlanta

As Atlanta’s most trusted lactation practice, we have been providing lactation services and helping families with breastfeeding their babies for over 30 years. At Lactation Consultants of Atlanta, we are dedicated to helping nursing families meet their breastfeeding goals anywhere in their journey.

Pregnancy & infant loss support (nationwide)

Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support

Touching Lives, Healing Hearts & Giving Hope We are so sorry for the loss that led you here, but we are glad you found the National Share Office. Share is a community for anyone who has experienced the death of their baby. We serve parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, as well as the professionals who care for grieving families.

MISS Foundation

Find quick access to counseling resources, advocacy information, research on traumatic grief, education for healthcare providers and community members, and support services for those grieving the death, or impending death, of a child. This is also the home of the Selah Carefarm and the beloved 40 rescued animals who help traumatically bereaved families from around the world every day.

Child Loss & Infertility – Still Standing Magazine

Still Standing Magazine shares stories from around the world of writers surviving the aftermath of child loss and infertility.

Fertility resources (nationwide)

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, established in 1974, is dedicated to ensuring that all people challenged in their family building journey reach resolution through being empowered by knowledge, supported by community, united by advocacy, and inspired to act.

ReproductiveFacts.org

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of reproductive medicine. The Society accomplishes its mission through the pursuit of excellence in evidence-based, life-long education and learning, through the advancement and support of innovative research, through the development and dissemination of the highest ethical and quality standards in patient care, and through advocacy on behalf of physicians and affiliated healthcare providers and their patients.

The Infertility Workbook

If you and your partner have struggled with fertility issues, you’re well aware of the emotional roller coaster of confusion, frustration, and disappointment that infertility can set in motion. This book offers a comprehensive set of mind-body techniques you can use to help improve fertility from the comfort of your home and make the most of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or other fertility treatments.

Conquering Infertility

Infertility is a heartbreaking condition that affects nine million American couples each year. It causes tremendous stress, can trigger debilitating sadness and depression, and can tear a marriage to shreds. In Conquering Infertility, Harvard psychologist Alice Domar—whom Vogue calls the “Fertility Goddess”—provides infertile couples with what they need most: stress relief, support, and hope. Using the innovative mind/body techniques she has perfected at her clinic, Domar helps infertile women not only regain control over their lives but also boost their chances of becoming pregnant.

Coping With Infertility, Miscarriage, and Neonatal Loss: Finding Perspective and Creating Meaning

Pregnancy loss can be devastating, regardless of whether it is early or late in pregnancy or in the short period after a baby is born. In many instances, similar emotions are experienced when a couple learns that their fertility treatments were unsuccessful. This wise, compassionate book teaches proven cognitive-behavioral strategies for coping with infertility and pregnancy loss.

Jewish Fertility Foundation

Providing financial assistance, emotional support & educational programming to Jewish people with medical infertility.

Maternal mental health podcasts

Mom & Mind for Pregnancy and Postpartum Mental Health

Posptartum Depression is real. And it’s only part of the story. We dig in to ALL of the stuff that no tells you about, but you NEED to know. Dr. Kat, Psychologist and specialist in perinatal mental health, interviews moms, dads, experts and advocates about how to cope, manage and recover from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

NATAL

NATAL is a podcast docuseries about having a baby while Black in the United States. We pass the mic to Black parents to tell their stories about bringing new life into the world, in their own words. The docuseries also highlights the birthworkers, medical professionals, researchers, and advocates fighting daily for better care for Black birthing parents.

Birth Stories in Color (BSiC)

Birth Stories in Color (BSiC) is a podcast for Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latino and Multiracial individuals to share their birthing experiences – a space that specifically celebrates, mourns with and supports them and their transformation through birth.

Birth Stories in Color (BSiC) also emphasizes the role of storytelling as a way to equip future parents. Listening to real birth stories is one way to discover the expected and unexpected parts of the journey.

Parenting Resources

Big Little Feelings – Happy Parents, Happy Toddlers

The only course you need to thrive during the toddler years (that’s ages 1-6!). The course is broken down into bite-sized video content you can watch when and where it works for you. Learn simple, practical strategies and tools that are research-based, solutions-oriented, and practical enough for everyday life. These aren’t suggestions – these are how-tos you can start doing right now.

Atlanta Parenting Therapy

Burnout is real. & in the midst of all that COVID has brought into our worlds, the parenting journey has become even more exhausting and depleting. Despite reading the books, listening to the podcasts, and trying all the new techniques people rave about on Instagram, raising a little human can feel like an uphill battle.

Parenting & Family Books

The Whole-Brain Child – Dr. Dan Siegel

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No-it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!

The Awakened Family – Dr. Shefali

All parents have aspirations for their children. But often these turn into crushing expectations that cause real harm and disillusionment at the most important time in a child’s development. Parenting should not be a competition with winners and losers.

The Conscious Parent – Dr. Shefali

Peppered with practical, hands-on examples from Dr. Tsabary’s real-life experiences with the countless families she has helped journey consciously together, A Call to Conscious Parenting is a manual for giving our children the opportunity to shine and dazzle with their natural state of being.

Out of Control – Dr. Shefali

Every parent wants the golden key to raising well-behaved, academically gifted, successful, happy children. Embedded in the collective psyche is the notion that discipline is the cornerstone to achieving these goals. Out of Control offers a never-before-published perspective on why the entire premise of discipline is flawed.

No Bad Kids – Toddler Discipline Without Shame (9 Guidelines) – Janet Lansbury

A toddler acting out is not shameful, nor is it behavior that needs punishing. It’s a cry for attention, a shout-out for sleep, or a call to action for firmer, more consistent limits. It is the push-pull of our toddler testing his burgeoning independence. He has the overwhelming impulse to step out of bounds, while …

Emergency Resources

Suicide Prevention Hotline

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. We’re committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.

Emergency Phone Lines

Georgia Crisis & Access Line (GCAL)
1-800-715-4225

In person emergency resource:

If you live in the metro Atlanta area, you can go to the Grady Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Clinic; 24/7 days a week (404) 616-4762

National Sexual Assault Hotline
Call 800-656-HOPE (4673).

National Domestic Violence Hotline
Call 800-799-SAFE (7233)