Finding Support After Parent Wellness Group: A Resource Guide for Parents
As Parent Wellness Group enters its final chapter, one thing remains unchanged: our deep belief that parents deserve support that truly meets them.
Transitions like this can bring up uncertainty—especially when it comes to finding the right kind of care for you or your family. This post is meant to be a practical, calming guide to help you navigate your next steps with more clarity and confidence.
1. Start With Insurance (and Understand Its Limits)
For many parents, insurance is a natural and important place to begin.
If you plan to use insurance:
Visit your insurance provider’s website and search their behavioral or mental health directory
Or call the number on the back of your insurance card to ask for in-network providers
That said, it’s important to know that insurance can be a limiting filter, not a measure of clinician quality or effectiveness.
Many deeply skilled, ethical, and experienced practitioners—including clinicians who have worked at Parent Wellness Group—have made the thoughtful decision to work outside of insurance networks. This choice is often rooted in clinical integrity, flexibility of care, and the ability to offer more individualized and sustainable treatment—not a lack of commitment to accessibility.
If you’re curious about why some therapists choose to be out-of-network, we’ve written more about this here:
Reasons for Out-of-Network Therapy
If you’re open to private pay (out-of-network):
You may have more options in terms of approach, availability, and fit
Many clinicians provide superbills that can be submitted to insurance for partial reimbursement
As with all things in care, there’s no “right” choice—only the one that best supports you and your family in this season.
2. Decide: In-Person or Virtual?
Another important consideration is how you want to receive support.
In-person therapy can feel grounding and relational for some
Virtual therapy offers flexibility, accessibility, and continuity—especially for parents balancing many responsibilities
This is clinician-dependent, so once you know your preference, you can filter accordingly. Trust yourself here: the “best” format is the one you’ll realistically show up for.
3. Use Trusted Search Hubs
Rather than scrolling endlessly through outdated listings, these platforms are reliable, current, and easy to navigate:
https://zencare.co
Filter by location, insurance, specialties, and therapy typehttps://therapymatcher.org/contact/
Personalized matching based on your needs and preferences
Both are excellent starting points and can significantly reduce the overwhelm that often comes with searching.
4. Consider What Kind of Support You’re Seeking
This question often gets overlooked—but it matters deeply:
Am I looking for traditional talk therapy, or am I seeking something more integrative?
Some parents benefit most from:
Insight-oriented talk therapy
Trauma-informed psychotherapy
Somatic or body-based approaches
Coaching, education, and ongoing guidance
Community-based support paired with practical tools
There is no one “right” path—just the one that aligns with where you are now.
When Therapy Might Not Be the Right Fit (At Least Right Now)
Therapy can be deeply supportive—but it’s not always the right fit for every parent, in every season.
You might consider other forms of support if:
You’re seeking body-based tools, education, and guidance you can use in daily life—alongside or beyond insight
You’ve done therapy before and understand your patterns, but are craving more embodied, integrative change
You feel like you’ve hit a wall or a natural ending point with your current therapist
You’re longing for community and shared experience, not just one-on-one support
None of this means you’ve failed therapy—or that therapy has failed you.
It simply means your needs may be calling for a different kind of support in this chapter.
For many parents, care looks like a constellation: therapy when it’s supportive, community when connection is needed, education when understanding empowers change, and embodied practices that help the nervous system feel safe enough to integrate it all.
Support Outside of Therapy Matters, Too
Especially during pregnancy and the postpartum period, parents often benefit from care that extends beyond a clinical container—support that is relational, practical, and rooted in community.
This can include:
Prenatal and postpartum community support
Education and shared experience
Care that acknowledges emotional and physical needs
Spaces where parents are supported, not pathologized
One resource we wholeheartedly recommend is Nurture by NAPS: https://www.nurturebynaps.com/
Nurture by NAPS is a trusted partner of Parent Wellness Group and offers community-based support and care for prenatal and postpartum parents. Their support—led by certified nurses and perinatal practitioners—centers nourishment, rest, education, and connection during one of the most tender seasons of parenthood. For many families, this kind of support can complement therapy—or serve as meaningful care on its own.
In addition to their direct support, Nurture by NAPS has created a comprehensive perinatal mental health resource guide for parents navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. We highly recommend exploring and saving this resource here: NAPS Resource Guide
Perinatal Mental Health Support & Crisis Resources
If you are pregnant, postpartum, or supporting someone in that season—and especially if you’re feeling overwhelmed, isolated, anxious, or depressed—there are incredible, accessible resources available.
We strongly recommend Postpartum Support International, available at: https://www.postpartum.net
They offer:
A free, confidential helpline (call or text)
Online support groups for parents and partners
Educational resources on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
Referrals to local providers and community supports
If you’re unsure where to turn, or need immediate support, this is a compassionate and trusted place to start.
A Gentle Note on Support Beyond Therapy
As my own work has evolved, I’ve seen how powerful it can be for parents to have an involved partner and guide in their healing—not just someone they speak to once a week, but a framework, shared language, and ongoing practices that support real-life integration.
This is the heart of the work I now offer through the School of MOM: supporting mothers in understanding their nervous systems, patterns, and inner worlds—and giving them tools they can use daily, in real time, with themselves and their families, so they can thrive—not just survive.
The School of MOM tends to resonate most with self-aware mothers—those who have often done therapy, have language for their inner experience, and feel a growing capacity and readiness to engage in deeper inner-awareness and nervous-system-healing work. For some, this work complements therapy; for others, it becomes a natural next step after therapy when they feel ready to take a more active, embodied role in their growth.
This work also assumes a certain level of curiosity, self-responsibility, and capacity, and is best suited for parents who feel resourced enough to actively engage in their own inner work.
Just as importantly, this is work for parents who are ready to be in aligned community—to learn, reflect, and practice alongside others committed to conscious growth, nervous-system-informed parenting, and breaking generational patterns together.
This work is not a replacement for therapy. It’s another pathway of support for those seeking a more embodied, relational, and integrative way forward—rooted in awareness, practice, and connection.
In Closing
If you are navigating this transition and feeling unsure, please know:
You are not behind
You are not doing it wrong
And support is available—even if it takes a few steps to find the right fit
Parent Wellness Group may be closing, but the commitment to parents and families continues—through our clinicians, through trusted referral pathways, and through evolving forms of care.
With care and gratitude,
Sarah Harmon