Gabriella Carafa MSW RSW PMH-C

04/17/2024

3 more sleeps until my presentation! Sign up below!

Our upcoming Lunch & Learn event is just around the corner!

This three-hour workshop will take you on a reflective journey to explore how ableism affects parents and prospective parents with disabilities. Through this workshop, you will learn how to support the holistic needs of this population as they navigate becoming parents or are already parents. Gabriella will share her lived experience while utilizing case studies, providing education, and opportunities for reflection so that you can have the tools to provide disability-affirmative care during the perinatal period.

Gabriella Carafa, MSW, RSW. Gabriella Carafa .therapy is a social worker, psychotherapist and consultant certified in perinatal mental health. Gabriella is a disability-affirmative therapist who uses interpersonal psychotherapy, CBT, Narrative and DBT strategies. She is a single parent by choice living in the GTA who identifies as having a disability. One of her passions is perinatal social work, and she’s on a quest to ensure that parenting with a disability is normalized as an option for those who wish to pursue it.

Providing Disability-Affirming Holistic Supports
April 19, 2024
8:00PT / 9:00MT / 10:00CT / 11:00ET / 12:00AT / 12:30NT
$69 plus HST

If you’re unable to attend the session, a recording will be available. You can register for the event by clicking on the link in our bio!

11/03/2023

So honoured to be one of the instructors for Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Trainings 💚

03/05/2023

Such a great article

Practice Notes is an educational tool designed to help Ontario social workers, social service workers, employers and members of the public gain a better understanding of recurring issues dealt with by the Professional Practice Department and the Complaints Committee that may affect everyday practice...

01/24/2023

looking forward to presenting today for Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Trainings 💜

10/05/2022

so important! what a great initiative!

02/07/2022

So important!

11/20/2021

Adele opened up in a new interview about her experience with postpartum depression after giving birth to her son Angelo in 2012.

11/05/2021

I feel like there is this expectation, and pressure, on moms that just because we are the mother of a baby that we should automatically know what every cry means and how to fix it. Well, I know for me that’s not the case. There are just sooo many possibilities. For example, in the past 24 hours my baby has cried because:⁣
😑She is hungry. She is too full. She needs to burp. She needs to pass gas. She needed to p**p. ⁣
🤔She was bored. She had the sun in her face. She was cold. She was hot. She wanted to be swaddled. She didn’t want to be swaddled. ⁣
🥴 She wanted to be held. Then she wanted to be held facing out. Then she wanted me to stand when holding her. Then for me to walk when holding her. ⁣
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And every time she communicated to me something wasn’t right in the same way: crying. I am her mother, but I am no baby mind reader 🤷🏼‍♀️ Books, courses, and experience can help...but at the end of the day it’s me and her figuring it out one cry at a time. It’s me trying to apply the knowledge I have to my unique baby and circumstances in a way that works best for us. Sometimes it’s an easy fix, and sometimes it’s not. But I know that struggling to figure out why my baby is crying does not make me a failure of a mother. It means I am LEARNING what my baby needs, and how to give it.⁣
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If you’re working on figuring out your baby and their cues, you’re not alone. And don’t forget to give yourself credit for all the times you DO figure it out, and for all that you HAVE learned:⁣

💕When just being held by you makes it better⁣
💕When they are well fed and sleeping peacefully⁣
💕When they smile big at you because you’re their mom and you ARE doing it right. ⁣
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You are not a failure. You are learning. You are trying each and every day to do your best to make your baby happy despite it being freaking HARD, and that’s beautiful. You’re working hard, you don’t quit, and that makes you ABSOLUTELY the best mom for your child. You’re a good mom

📸 .the.mom.next.door
https://www.instagram.com/emily.the.mom.next.door/

10/30/2021

Hii everyone a few months ago my friend and colleague Dr Kaley Roosen were interviewed for this podcast around disability and mental health. Check it out

Listen to Stop Psychoanalyzing Me on Spotify. Stop Psychoanalyzing Me is a podcast on which your friend Bev interviews experts about the mental disorders that they study. The goal of the interview isn't so much to have an expert discussion of the theory behind these disorders, but rather to discuss....

08/02/2021

Mandy Moore went on Instagram Live on Tuesday to chat with Dr. Ashurina Ream, a psychologist and perinatal mental health specialist, about motherhood.