About Me
Beth P. Siller, LMFT
Writer • Speaker • Therapist • Educator
Specializing in maternal and perinatal mental health, reproductive trauma and loss, and the realities of building, growing, and having a family.
Why This Work Matters to Me
My connection to this work is both professional and deeply personal.
My own path to motherhood included infertility, fertility treatment and IVF, repeated pregnancy loss, advanced maternal age, donor sperm conception, and ultimately becoming a single mother by choice. It also included birth trauma and a postpartum experience that changed the way I understood maternal and perinatal mental health from the inside.
Throughout that journey, I experienced firsthand how an already difficult and vulnerable experience can become even more painful when care isn’t trauma-informed. There were moments when I needed the people caring for me to understand not only what was happening medically, but what it meant to be the person experiencing it.
Those experiences shaped the work I do today. They made me increasingly interested in the things that can go unseen or unspoken: the grief underneath something joyful, the trauma no one recognizes as trauma, the thoughts people are afraid to admit they’re having, and the parts of parenthood we can deeply love while also finding incredibly difficult.
My lived experience doesn’t make me an expert on anyone else’s story. It does inform the questions I ask, the things I notice, and my commitment to making space for experiences that don’t always fit neatly into the stories we’re told about building a family and becoming a parent.
The Lens I Bring
Before becoming a therapist, I studied theater, and creativity has remained an important part of how I understand people, emotion, and experience. My additional training in drama therapy and expressive arts therapy has shaped the way I think about healing, communication, and the stories we tell about ourselves.
That doesn’t mean therapy with me involves making art or performing. It means I’m comfortable working beyond the purely intellectual. Sometimes words are enough. Sometimes metaphor, storytelling, humor, imagery, movement, or another form of expression helps us understand something that has been difficult to name.
My approach is flexible and grounded in the person in front of me. Expressive work is an option, never a requirement.
My Values
I believe people deserve to be met with curiosity rather than assumptions, and that care, education, and conversations about mental health should make room for complexity.
My work is trauma-informed, LGBTQIA2S+ affirming, neurodivergence-affirming, and inclusive of the many ways people build and define family. I value autonomy, lived experience, emotional safety, and the willingness to talk about the things that are often easier to avoid.
Whether I’m writing, speaking, educating, or working clinically, I want people to feel seen as whole human beings rather than reduced to a diagnosis, role, or circumstance.
Writing, Speaking & Education
My work extends beyond the therapy room through writing, speaking, presentations, and education focused on maternal and perinatal mental health, trauma-informed care, reproductive grief and trauma, and the realities of parenthood, including parent burnout.
I write about the things we don’t always say out loud, and I speak and present for organizations, providers, and communities interested in having more honest, informed conversations about the experiences that come with building, growing, and having a family.
Interested in having me speak, present, train, or contribute to your platform?
Looking for therapy support?
If you’re looking for therapy, groups, intensives, or other ways to work with me through All That Matters Therapy, you can explore the support I offer and find the option that feels right for you.