Uses creative processes like painting, drawing, or sculpture to explore feelings that can be hard to put into words. Particularly helpful for processing fertility challenges, grief, postnatal depression, or changes in identity after becoming a parent.

Focuses on changing unhelpful behaviours and habits without too much focus on the past. This can help with anxiety, compulsions, or fears that arise during pregnancy or parenthood.

A short-term, goal-focused approach that helps you make meaningful changes quickly. Ideal for parents short on time who want clear, practical support with issues like postnatal anxiety, stress, or returning to work.

Future-focused support to help you clarify goals, grow in confidence, and make changes. Particularly supportive for parents navigating identity shifts, return-to-work decisions, or relationship changes.

Helps identify repeating patterns in your emotions and relationships, often linked to your past. Useful for breaking cycles in couple dynamics, or if parenting triggers difficult memories.

Evidence-based therapy focusing on how thoughts affect feelings and behaviour. Effective for perinatal anxiety, intrusive thoughts, postnatal depression, and stress. Provides practical coping tools to use day to day.

Similar to CBT but more focused on core beliefs (e.g. ‘I’m not a good parent’). Helps challenge unhelpful self-perceptions and replace them with more compassionate, balanced ones.

Uses arts, music, writing, or movement to explore and process feelings. Helpful when words don’t feel enough, for example after pregnancy loss, birth trauma, or during overwhelming transitions.

Often used in couples therapy. Helps partners recognise negative cycles, express underlying emotions, and reconnect. Particularly helpful after the stress of fertility treatment, new parenthood, or when intimacy feels lost.

Explores life’s big questions: identity, meaning, freedom, and relationships. Useful for parents feeling lost in identity shifts, or couples wanting to reconnect with shared purpose.

An evidence-based therapy for trauma. Particularly effective for birth trauma, pregnancy loss, or processing difficult past experiences. Helps the brain reprocess traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming.

Looks at the family system as a whole. Supports communication, understanding, and problem-solving. Helpful for blended families, co-parenting, or navigating big transitions like having a new baby.

Encourages focus on the ‘here and now’ — your immediate feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. Useful for reconnecting with yourself when parenthood feels overwhelming, or for couples who want to be more present with each other.

Centres on self-growth and reaching your potential, with empathy and unconditional support. Helpful when parenthood leaves you feeling unseen or like you’ve lost yourself.

Combines techniques from different approaches to create something tailored to you. Many Nest Club therapists work in an integrative way, drawing from multiple modalities depending on your needs.

Helps you understand the different ‘parts’ of yourself — like the anxious part, the critical part, or the nurturing part. Particularly healing in parenthood, where many old ‘parts’ can be reactivated. Encourages compassion and self-leadership.

Helps you separate yourself from your problems and re-author your story. Can be empowering for parents or couples feeling stuck in negative narratives (‘I’m failing,’ ‘We’ll never get past this’).

Built on empathy, unconditional positive regard, and a safe, non-judgemental space. Helpful across fertility, pregnancy, and parenthood for processing feelings without pressure or expectation.

A longer-term, intensive approach looking at unconscious processes. Can uncover deep-rooted issues, though often less used in short-term perinatal work.

Derived from psychoanalysis, but more focused on current relationships. Particularly helpful if early family experiences are shaping struggles in your relationship or parenting.

Supports couples in recognising and breaking distressing patterns. Helps with intimacy, communication, conflict, parenting stress, and rebuilding trust.

Future-focused and practical. Helps you identify strengths and build solutions quickly. Particularly supportive when parenthood feels overwhelming and you want to see progress fast.

Looks at patterns within a family or couple system. Useful for co-parenting, extended family dynamics, or cultural expectations.

Future-focused and practical. Helps you identify strengths and build solutions quickly. Particularly supportive when parenthood feels overwhelming and you want to see progress fast.

Explores different parts of personality (Parent, Adult, Child) and how they affect interactions. Very useful in couple therapy, where old dynamics often replay.