Mental Health Peer Support

For the Perinatal Period & Early Parenthood Years

Together, every mother thrives

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About Us

Motherhood Village is a Gold Coast–based registered charity providing free, in-person, peer-led perinatal mental health support for mothers during pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood.

We support mothers who are struggling, at risk, or recovering — including those experiencing anxiety, depression, identity loss, neurodivergence, grief and loss, and acute perinatal mental health challenges.

Our services are led by trained Peer Leaders with lived experience and delivered in small, trauma-informed groups that prioritise safety, connection, and dignity. We work alongside the health system, supporting early intervention, recovery, and continuity of care.

Motherhood Village exists to ensure no mother faces perinatal mental health challenges alone.

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Why is Motherhood Village Ltd Unique?

Motherhood can be deeply joyful and profoundly challenging. From pregnancy through to five years post birth, the perinatal and early parenting years bring significant emotional and identity shifts, and no two mothers experience this season in the same way.

Motherhood Village exists specifically for mothers navigating perinatal mental health challenges. Our peer-led, trauma-informed, in-person support groups are grounded in lived experience and delivered in small, psychologically safe settings. We support mothers seeking early intervention, those recovering from acute perinatal mental illness, and those experiencing loneliness, anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts or identity change.

In addition to our general perinatal mental health groups, we offer targeted peer support for mothers recovering from acute illness (including Mother & Baby Unit admissions), neurodivergent mothers, mothers who are health professionals navigating their own perinatal mental health, culturally and linguistically diverse and expat mothers, and those experiencing grief or loss.

We also provide soft-entry support through Village Art, a gentle, creative pathway into connection for mothers who may not yet feel ready for a discussion-based group.

We work alongside hospitals and specialist services to strengthen continuity of care, ensuring mothers have access to lived-experience community support across the full perinatal and early parenting years.

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Motherhood Village was created so no mother has to face perinatal mental health challenges in silence. If you are struggling with your mental health, feeling disconnected, or in need of reassurance and community, we are here for you. Please come along, we would love to welcome you.

We can help. We can support you. And we can help you build your village.

Tracey - Founding Director & CEO

Benefits of Peer Support During the Perinatal & Early Parenthood Years…

Holistic approach to your mental health & wellbeing

Perinatal mental health peer support involves individuals who have experienced, or who are experiencing perinatal mental health challenges, providing support to one another using their lived experience as commonality. We use both a recovered and recovering peer support approach at Motherhood Village Ltd.

Peer Support can be integrated into your treatment plan, to compliment your professional care from your GP and Psychology team. This allows you to have a holistic approach to meet your emotional, psychological, and practical needs.

  • Validating your experience

  • Reducing the barriers to disclosure

  • Safe and inclusive community group of peers

  • Reducing feelings of isolation by fostering a sense of belonging, solidarity, encouragement and community.

  • Bridging the time gap between clinical support sessions.

  • Providing a holistic approach for perinatal mental health.

  • Raising awareness and education in the community

Immediate Impacts of Peer Support

Supporting you from a place of lived experience…

Our Peer Leaders have lived through, and recovered from, a range of Perinatal Mental Health challenges.

They now use this lived experience, along with training & education in Mental Health Peer Support Work to safely help other Mothers and Parents who are facing their own Perinatal Mental Health challenges.

As a peer, we are able to provide a non-judgemental space for you to express your feelings, thoughts and concerns. This lived experience led support can help alleviate your feelings of isolation, anxiety, and depression. It helps normalise your feelings.

Attending our sessions allows for a sense of ongoing connection, reduces loneliness and helps you feel supported in between your specialist sessions.

Our group sessions are the perfect safe place to meet other mothers experiencing similar challenges, to share and listen to each unique story, to feel less alone in your own journey.

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