💫 Understanding Maternal Gatekeeping – with Perinatal Psychotherapist Sarah Wheatley
In this video, you can explore maternal gatekeeping — a dynamic that can emerge during early parenthood where one parent may, often unconsciously, take greater control over caregiving roles. It highlights how this can be shaped by anxiety, identity shifts, societal expectations, and attachment patterns, and how it may impact partner involvement, relationship balance, and emotional connection. Bringing awareness to these patterns can support more open communication, shared parenting, and a stronger, more collaborative family system.
Sarah Wheatley
Psychotherapist
Specialisation: Parenthood, Parent-Infant Bond, Perinatal Trauma
Regulatory Body: BACP
Based in: Edinburgh, UK
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