Reproductive Mental Health with Amrit

Hi, I’m Amrit Crowther, a Registered Clinical Counsellor with over two decades of experience. Throughout my career, I’ve worked in chronic pain clinics, child and family therapy agencies, employee assistance programs, private practice, and health authorities. But perhaps my most challenging, rewarding, and transformative role has been becoming a mom to two amazing kids.

Like many women, I discovered that becoming a parent affected nearly every part of my life - my identity, marriage, career, health, relationships, and sense of self. While navigating two demanding careers and raising two young children, my own health began telling me that something needed to change. Eventually, I experienced significant burnout and made the difficult decision to close my private practice.

During the years that followed, I found myself thinking deeply about the enormous transition that comes with becoming a parent and how little we sometimes talk about its impact on our lives. I explored a different career for a time, but my passion for helping people never really went away. An interest in dance and movement therapy eventually led me to co-facilitate mom-and-baby movement and support groups at UBC Family Housing, and from there I discovered what would become my true professional calling: reproductive mental health.

For the past five years, I have worked as a Reproductive Mental Health Clinician with the Royal Columbian Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry Unit, alongside a team of reproductive psychiatrists and counsellors. I support people through the many emotional and mental health challenges that can accompany pregnancy, postpartum life, fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, changes in relationships and family dynamics, and the transition to parenthood.

My own children are now grown and attending university, and my husband and I have had the opportunity to experience many different stages of family life together. I have a particular interest in supporting women whose children are getting older and who find themselves asking, Who am I now? After years of caring for everyone else, it can be difficult to reconnect with yourself, rediscover what brings you happiness, and make space for your own needs again.

I am continually expanding my knowledge and clinical skills, with training in perinatal grief and loss, birth and reproductive trauma, Internal Family Systems for perinatal populations, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

I’m now pleased to bring my experience in reproductive mental health to private practice in Duncan, offering a supportive space for individuals and families navigating the many changes, challenges, losses, and new beginnings that can come with parenthood and family life.