Tools & Resources
The Becoming Us resource hub for professionals dedicated to supporting families through the transformative journey of parenthood.
Here, you’ll find expert insights, evidence-based education, and practical tools on topics including perinatal mood disorders, bonding, fatherhood, postpartum anxiety, and family relationships. Additionally the Becoming Us book and downloadable PDFs help you to help support your families
Podcasts
How are you Dad?
Are we working on our relationships? When we become a Dad, 100% of our attention often goes on our new arrival. This is inevitable, however, our relationship with the Mum will often suffer during the perinatal period. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
How Parenthood Impacts Relationships with Elly Taylor
The Couples Therapist Couch is the podcast for Couples Therapists about the practice of couples therapy. The host, Shane Birkel, interviews an expert in the field of couples therapy each week. In this podcast Shane speaks with Elly about how parenthood impacts relationships. LISTEN NOW >
Articles
Is it Grief?
A long period of emotional adjustment to parenthood is completely normal for new mothers and fathers and yet most parents don’t expect it. Parenthood brings many, many gains, but there are also some losses too.
Why some new parents stay together, while others fall apart
The sad reality is it’s estimated that in the US, as many as 1 in 4 fathers leaves the family home by the time their child is four years old. So what makes the difference between the parents that stay together and the families that don’t survive early parenthood?
What Parent Stress Looks Like & Why Expectant Parents Need to Prepare for It
If you work with expecting or new parents (or you’re a parent yourself) you’ll know just how stressful parenthood can be at times. And while new stresses are a normal part of new parenthood, it’s not spoken about enough! Stress is a subject that is ideally broached in…
The Stresses of Parenthood and How You Can Help Expecting Parents
You know the movie scene where the baby is born and both parents cuddle the baby together and the baby fixes everything in their relationship- and then the three of them live happily ever after, The End. In reality that’s all it is – a scene from a movie.
Dealing with Postpartum/Postnatal Anxiety
If you’re working with a mother who can’t switch off, is plagued with questions, is finding it hard to sleep and who needs constant reassurance, you may be dealing with Postpartum/Postnatal Anxiety. By knowing the factors that increase risk – and the signs to look …
Dealing with Birth Trauma
A traumatic birth is intense, distressing and can lead to other problems down the track. But the good news is with a bit of forward planning there are things you can do to minimize some of the risks, and there are also things you can do to support your new family if yo…