Hi, I'm Annabelle.

Women deserve to be seen, heard, and have an active role in their mental health treatment and birth experience. My approach to psychiatry goes beyond managing symptoms. I partner with women through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond with a whole-body approach — blending emotional support, nutrition, lifestyle, and personalized psychiatric care so you can heal and feel like yourself again.

My path into psychiatry started in primary care, where I saw firsthand how mental health was consistently overlooked despite its deep connection to physical well-being. But it wasn't until I became a mother myself that I truly understood the gaps in perinatal mental health care.

I lived the emotional highs and lows of pregnancy and postpartum. I watched women — myself included — be expected to simply push through without the support we actually needed. Too often, mothers were told to stop important medications with no safe alternatives, or their symptoms were dismissed with a hurried checkup and a pamphlet. I knew there had to be a better way.

That's why I pursued extensive training in perinatal psychiatry, nutrition for mental health, functional medicine, and became a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator — so I could offer women the kind of comprehensive care I wish I had received.

At Bloom & Balance Psychiatry, my mission is to make sure women feel heard, supported, and empowered in their health decisions. While my passion began with helping mothers through pregnancy and postpartum, I've expanded to support women through other hormonal life transitions as well — PMDD, perimenopause, and the complexity of being a woman in a healthcare system that still, too often, doesn't take us seriously.

Outside of the practice, I'm a wife and mom to two little ones. I understand the chaos and the beauty of motherhood. I'm passionate about physiological birth, supporting women through the profound transformation of becoming a mother — what the research calls matrescence — and making sure that transformation is supported, not just survived.