The next way of working, caring, mothering, and leading will require truth, rest, imagination, and better-designed support.

Mental Health, Caregiving & Systems Change

The time for performing capacity is over.

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Choose Your Path

Psychotherapy

Different Entry Points. Shared Intention.

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Therapy for women navigating transitions, caregiving, burnout, trauma, maternal mental health and identity shifts.

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Centering YOU 

A postpartum support deck, training tool and guided experience for therapy and community care. 

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For Organizations 

Consulting, speaking, training and implementation support for maternal health programs, teams and systems. 

Elizabeth O’Brien, LPC, PMH-C

Psychotherapist, consultant, speaker, and founder of The Shift Shop. Elizabeth's work lives at the intersection of nervous system science, women's mental health, caregiving realities, and systems-level change.

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In Rooms Where Change Is Happening

I speak, train, and facilitate conversations for organizations, providers, and communities ready to rethink care, capacity, leadership, and the conditions women and families are being asked to survive.

From perinatal mental health trainings to conversations on feminist business, caregiving, and new approaches to work. These rooms are where insight becomes design, and where more humane, imaginative possibilities begin to take shape.