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Dr. Suzanne Mungalez | Perinatal Therapist in CA

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Liberation-oriented therapist 🍉🇨🇩✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️
*Helping you navigate pregnancy, postpartum, & parenting in an uncertain world
📍Oakland, CA

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Just your unfriendly neighborhood advocate for moms and birthing people 🙃

I wear my values on my sleeve, and I honestly believe we need more of this energy in therapy, birthwork, and parenting spaces. If you agree, you may want to follow me! If you don’t, the unfollow button is right there too.

And if I sound like someone you want in your corner, stay tuned this fall to hear more about how you can work with me once I’m back from parental leave!

#therapistofinstagram #perinataltherapist #therapyformoms #parentingispolitical #scrunchymom by @its.themamaspace

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This post took so long to create because there are so many people I admire in this space! There may have to be a part 2.

I’m also curious who you’d add to the list! I’m thinking pediatricians we love, occupational therapists & pelvic floor physical therapists, OBs and midwives, and more, so long as they provide educational content and helpful supports on their page. Give me your recs!
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#motherhood #pregnancy #postpartum #newmom #newbornsupport by @its.themamaspace

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This question and conversation have been going around lately, and a lot of the discourse references “professionalism” without naming the roots of western professionalism.

I’m Dr. Suzanne Mungalez, a licensed psychologist who specializes in therapy for new and soon-to-be parents, and I am also constantly and forever working towards decolonizing my practice and my life, all for the aim of collective liberation. I am Black, queer, a daughter of Congolese immigrants, and a woman in the U.S., all of which inform how I work. With these identities and lenses, this is how I approach the question of whether or not we show up for clients outside of the therapy room.

In short, healing and support were not meant to only exist within the confines of four walls. I am discerning, meaning I do not have a one size fits all approach. I am boundaried, and I exercise the word “no” when warranted. I intentionally communicate boundaries with clients. But I am not rigid.

This may not work for you and your clients/therapist, but this is what works for me, and I’m honored to support my clients in the ways that I have.

Clients and therapists, what are your thoughts?? 👇🏾 by @its.themamaspace

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🕊️📢 🫶🏽 @msrachelforlittles and all of you relentlessly demanding accountability for governments responsibility to bring children’s precious rights to life.

#childrensrights #notcontroversial by @its.themamaspace

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It can be hard to know what to say to our little ones when there is so much pain in the world. When you are able, check in with them. You know your child best, so only you can determine how much to share. Find out how they’re doing, validate their feelings, and create space for them to share whatever is on their mind ♥️ by @its.themamaspace

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It’s not that complicated.

#mom #children #school by @its.themamaspace

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Being pregnant in the age of shelter in place drills and sh00tings at elementary schools is absolutely terrifying.

If you are pregnant, postpartum, or a parent, you are not alone in this feeling. Know that it’s okay for your hope and fear to coexist.

This is one of the many ways that parenting is political. Because parents should not have to fear what might happen when they drop their children off at school. Parents-to-be should be concerned with their birth plans, not the safety plans for future school sh00tings.

#bendoregon #gunlaws #parentingispolitical #modernparenting by @its.themamaspace

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How’s motherhood going for you?

#modernmotherhood #therapyformoms #momsofig by @its.themamaspace

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I don’t believe voting will change the world, but I do believe that the things voting does change are worth changing. I do believe voting is harm reduction. So I vote, but I don’t let my activism end there.

What about you? Why do you vote? What do you do beyond voting?

#election #votingmatters #leftist #votelikeamother #voteblue by @its.themamaspace

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And that’s on building a country for all moms and babies.
Every single one.

#motherhood #momsofinstagram #mom #america by @its.themamaspace

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POV: your postpartum therapist is also a trained lactation education specialist 🙋🏾‍♀️

Infant feeding is one of the most common anxiety-inducing issues I see in my therapy practice. There’s a lot of misinformation, and there’s also a lot that professionals understand but many first time parents don’t.

So if you’re about to have a baby or know someone who is, save this!! You’re gonna want to return to it in those moments where you’re up at 3am thinking, “wtf is happening?”

And for folks who have gone through this already, what advice would you give?👇🏾

#breastfeedingsupport #lactation #newmomtips #therapyformoms #pumpingmom by @its.themamaspace

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EBF parents, how we doin? 😅😅😅

#exclusivelybreastfeeding #breastfedbaby #momsofig #lactation #postpartumlife by @its.themamaspace

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