About us

The Buckinghamshire Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) supports women and birthing people to access psychological treatments and care if they are experiencing:

• Significant anxiety during pregnancy related to their maternity experience and/or childbirth (also known as Tokophobia)
• Significant distress related to previous birth trauma that might be impacting on their experience of current pregnancy and their emotional wellbeing
• Significant distress and trauma symptoms related to perinatal loss at any stage of pregnancy or in the neonatal/perinatal period, occuring within the past year

Our team

We are a dedicated team consisting of:

• An experienced psychological therapist
• A clinical psychologist
• Assistant psychologists
• A specialist maternal mental health midwife

Our role

Our role is to conduct thorough assessments when you are referred to us by your GP or another healthcare professional.

These will aim to:

• Identify distress that has come from your maternity, neonatal or reproductive journey
• Plan treatment with you in line with your goals and in collaboration with relevant healthcare professionals involved in your care
• Deliver effective, evidence-based psychological interventions.
• There may also be times when we will signpost you and support you to access other services, if these are more appropriate to meet your needs.