Samantha Rauber, LPC-S, NCC, PMH-C

11/28/2025

11/18/2025

Some hearts break quietly, but the eyes always tell the truth. 💔

11/18/2025

Such an honor to present a topic I’m so passionate about to the Baton Rouge Chapter of Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses tonight. Grateful to be a small part of positive change for our birthing families🤍

11/08/2025

It’s been a magical week of therapy, y’all. ✨

When being a holding therapist isn’t your job, it’s who you are, work is not work, it’s an honor and it’s a privilege.

Good things are coming, friends.

10/29/2025

For all my feeding therapist friends out there! 🙌🙌🙌

10/20/2025

Theres nothing more powerful than a community of bereaved families coming together to honor and remember babies gone too soon, seeing people look at one another just knowing they’re a part of this club no one wants to be in. A beautiful movement to witness, indeed. 🤍

10/17/2025

10/09/2025

FREE • WEEKLY • VIRTUAL
Support group for all new parents
Every Wednesday 12noon ET
Led by Ashlee, our director of clinical services
Email us for zoom link: info@postpartumstress.com

10/07/2025

"The incompatibility between motherhood and a sense of control is apparent to most new moms, almost immediately. It feels incomprehensible for moms to cling to a desire for control and autonomy while they simultaneously struggle to connect with and take care of their dependent infant.

If motherhood temporarily robs women of a sense of independence, while they readily or reluctantly surrender to this imposed state, it is reasonable that they would try to recoup this independence along the way.

The timing and energy of this effort to reclaim a lost sense of self is different for each woman, depending on variables such as personality, history, current life circumstances, and environmental/social demands, for instance.

The point is that postpartum women, whether depressed or not, are required to reconstruct themselves, to a certain extent, as a function of the demands of motherhood. It necessitates a practical, emotional, psychological and extremely personal transformation.

When depression and anxiety impose extraordinary distress, it can feel impossible to move forward. When depression hits, there is an abrupt disturbance that impedes the transition to motherhood. Mothers who trust the natural flow of life expect this passage to develop naturally, but instead, are be left feeling cheated, enraged and misunderstood."