About
Connie Roberts, LCSW
Hello — I’m Connie!
I’m passionate about supporting women, parents, children, and families…
…and I’ve devoted my professional life to this work. In my previous roles, I’ve served as a child and family therapist, community organizer, social and emotional learning educator, abortion doula, and advocate for survivors of sexual violence. These experiences have deeply influenced my current work and have given me a holistic understanding of what meaningful support looks like.
I was drawn to perinatal mental health after realizing that the most impactful way I could help families is by walking alongside parents—and those hoping to become parents—so they feel heard and held during the foundational years of this monumental transition. As a mother myself, I understand how enormous this shift can be, and how essential it is to have a space for non-judgmental exploration, support, and healing during a time when you are holding so much.
My work is grounded in theories and practices of attachment, neuroscience, somatic work, and trauma-focused care.
In our work together, I won’t simply hand you coping strategies or self-care checklists (though nourishing your body and resting when you can are vital during this time). I’ll also help you tune into and make sense of what’s happening in your body, your mind, and the space between you and those you love. We’ll slow down and get curious about questions like:
What happens for you when difficult emotions or thoughts come up? When your baby cries? When the pregnancy test reads negative? When you are faced with setting boundaries?
What about when feelings of joy or happiness arise? Are you able to “sink into” them? If not, what gets in the way?
How has your life shaped the way you think and feel about yourself and the world? How does this show up in your relationships? In your parenting? What do you want to keep? What do you want to let go or shift? What else would you like to make space for?
What gets in the way of you getting the support you need? Are you comfortable asking for or accepting help? Why or why not?
As we work together, I can help you identify the beliefs that keep you stuck and understand where they come from, offer language to help you make sense of your inner experience, help you work with your nervous system to experience more ease in your emotions, and guide you in processing and integrating wounds and trauma. Together, we’ll work to help you feel safer in your body, find steadiness in uncertainty, and begin to trust yourself again, or for the first time — in your emotions, in your relationships, and in your capacity to heal.
I believe in therapy as a liberatory pursuit.
What does this mean?
In short, I recognize the profound impact our environments have on our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Too often, we mistake the failures of our culture for personal failures.
Many parents today feel overwhelmed, angry, or burnt out — and assume that means they’re failing. This is especially true for people who don’t fit the dominant culture’s concept of what a parent “should” be, including neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and non-dominant identities. But if we step back, we can see that parenting isn’t always supported by our culture. Parents are expected to hustle and work long hours just to cover basic childcare needs. Birthing people are often pressured to “bounce back” and return to work before their bodies have healed. Even the idea that two people alone can raise a child is a deeply flawed one; for most of human history, parenting has been done in community.
Liberatory therapy helps shift the focus from self-blame to awareness — recognizing that many of our struggles are symptoms of the systems we live within, not signs of personal inadequacy. When we can release the shame that comes with believing it’s all our fault, we open space for self-compassion, forgiveness, and the freedom to care for ourselves and our loved ones in more sustainable, life-affirming ways.
I am a psychodynamic, relational therapist who is committed to learning alongside my clients.
As humans, we are wired for connection. A newborn’s eyesight is developed to see exactly the distance between her eyes and her parents’ — not the hands that hold her nor the body that feeds her, but the eyes, the gateway to relationship. From the very beginning, we are built to connect.
Relational therapy recognizes the profound impact that our early lives and relationships (with our families, peers, or society at large) have on our sense of goodness, our experience of safety, and how we show up for others. Similarly, when you are part of a therapeutic alliance where you can bring your whole self — a space that holds your joy, grief, anger, confusion, and hope with compassion, curiosity, and genuine acceptance — healing, growth, and transformation become possible.
Clients who work with me describe my style as compassionate, genuine, exploratory, and creative, while also able to hold and work with the complexities of your experience with professional competency to help you meet your therapeutic goals.
I’m a lifelong learner, so I’m always integrating new knowledge from trainings, research, readings, and my own therapy and professional supervision into my work! I participate in a variety of weekly and monthly peer and professional supervision and specialized consultation groups to continuously grow in my therapeutic skills and craft. Because I ask my clients to stretch and grow as humans, I believe it is my responsibility to do the same.
I believe in the therapeutic power of play, creativity, and community.
I won’t lie to you — making lasting changes in your life isn’t always easy. Committing to giving yourself the consistent space for healing and challenging behaviors that no longer work for you can take real, intentional effort. But that doesn’t mean that therapy can’t also be a place of joy, celebration, communion, and imagination. In fact, I think good therapy must bring in these elements!
In my own life, I try to practice what I preach. Carving out space for presence, joy, and relationship might look different than when I didn’t have a little life depending on me, but I still make an effort to connect to those things that make me, me, in addition to being a mom. Those things include:
Sewing (both quilts and clothes), gardening (my favorite thing to grow is dahlias), nerding out on all things psychology and neuroscience, hosting potlucks and parties, and adventuring with my husband, son, and dog (our most recent adventure was to Japan, though we had to leave Fido at home for that one!).
Education & Training
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Georgia State University: BA Psychology
Smith College: Master of Clinical Social Work
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Institute For Creative Mindfulness EMDR Training and ongoing consultation
2 year Post-Graduate Fellowship - Parent and Family Wellness Center
Postpartum Support International Components of Care
Society for the Protection and Care of Children Infant Mental Health Training
Center for Trauma and Resiliency- Trauma Focused CBT; Let’s Connect Parent Coaching
Gottman Level I & II
PESI EFT training for clinicians
Mental Health Partners: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Rutgers Social and Emotional Learning Certificate
ASIST crisis prevention training
