Nurturing Women Psychology
Support for women’s mental health at all stages of life
At Nurturing Women Psychology, we focus on the unique mental health challenges faced by women during the perinatal period. Our practice provides tailored support to navigate the emotional, psychological, and physical transitions of pregnancy and postpartum, ensuring every woman feels seen, heard, and cared for during this significant life chapter.
In addition to perinatal care, we offer a range of services to support women at all stages of life. From managing stress and anxiety to navigating relationships and major life transitions, our practice is dedicated to empowering women with the tools they need to thrive.
We provide individual therapy, group sessions, and workshops designed to create a supportive community and foster resilience. Whatever your journey, we are here to walk alongside you every step of the way.
How can we help?
At Nurturing Women Psychology, we focus on the unique mental health challenges faced by women during the perinatal period. We provide tailored support to navigate the emotional, psychological, and physical transitions of pregnancy and postpartum, ensuring every woman feels seen, heard, and cared for during this significant life chapter.
In addition to perinatal care, we offer a range of services to support women at all stages of life. From managing stress and anxiety to navigating relationships and major life transitions, our practice is dedicated to empowering women with the tools they need to thrive.
As an endorsed organisational psychologist, we also provides professional coaching and leadership development programs. Tanya is particularly passionate about empowering professional women to thrive in their careers while maintaining mental well-being.
Professional women are less likely to proactively engage in psychological therapy, ask for help from loved ones and often minimise their experiences of distress. Instead, psychologists often see the tendency for these women to ‘try harder’, putting more pressure on themselves to ‘succeed’ as a mother. This ultimately has an impact on their experience of early parenting and their overall adjustment to parenthood in the first year.
This coaching helps to ensure women are prepared for the adjustment to parenthood and reintegration to the workplace, reducing the likelihood of stress about managing a career and a family, reducing the impact and pressure on the individual and their family unit, and ultimately reducing the risk of perinatal mental health issues.
We offer a number of workshops and programs focused on supporting women (and parents more generally) specifically through the perinatal phase.
This includes the Circle of Security® Parenting Program which is based on 50 years of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened, and how this type of early intervention can effect outcomes for the child across their lifespan.
The principles help you set the foundations for healthy, emotionally open relationships that apply across your child’s whole life. This has a significant impact on a child’s mental health later in life, increases their ability to regulate their emotions and has the potential to influence the relationship your children have with their own children.
Tanya Bowe
Registered Psychologist
(special interest in perinatal psychology and women’s mental health)
B Psych (pg.dip), MA Org Psych, Full Member grade Australia Psychological Society (MAPS), Registered Medicare Provider.
With over 15 years of experience as a registered psychologist, Tanya has always had a passion for supporting clients to foster personal growth and meaningful change. She has a special interest in perinatal mental health, and supporting women through various life transitions.
Tanya takes a holistic, integrative approach, recognising the connection between emotional, physical, and relational well-being. She tailors therapy to individual needs, drawing on ACT, CBT, Schema Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, self-compassion practices, and mind-body strategies to promote well-being. She also facilitates the 8-week Circle of Security Parenting Program, supporting parents in building strong, secure relationships with their children.
Tanya typically works with clients during the perinatal period addressing mild to moderate postnatal depression and anxiety, adjustment to parenthood, returning to work, relationship changes, parenting support and unresolved issues from one’s own past/childhood. Tanya also sees women at any stage in life requiring support with mild to moderate stress, anxiety and/or depression.
As an endorsed organisational psychologist, Tanya also provides EAP services, executive coaching, and leadership development programs. She is particularly passionate about empowering professional women to thrive in their careers while maintaining mental well-being.
Special Interests include:
Perinatal Mental Health – supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood, with a focus on:
Postnatal depression, anxiety, and emotional adjustment
Identity shifts, relationship changes, and returning to work
Parenting support and unresolved childhood experience
General Women’s Mental Health – supporting women experiencing:
Stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and identity concerns
Perinatal and reproductive mental health issues
Women with ADHD – supporting women through major life transitions, including pregnancy, parenthood, and career progression, with a focus on:
Emotional regulation, executive functioning, and sensory sensitivities
Identity shifts, self-compassion, and practical coping strategies
Professional Women & Workplace Well-being – helping women navigate career and family demands through:
Stress management, work-life integration, and leadership development
Confidence-building and workplace mental health strategies
