Dr. Heather Buxton is a child, adolescent, and reproductive psychiatrist with a passion for supporting growing families beyond the medical lens. While her work in medicine focuses on mental health and well-being, she believes that pregnant and postpartum families deserve more than just clinical care—they deserve a community, practical resources, and compassionate support for their entry into parenthood. She has noticed a gap in care for parents that are trying to learn as they start their parenting journey and not just be reactive and seek care when “problems” are identified later in life.

Dr. Buxton is offering coaching for parents navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. Her coaching and consulting practice supports both birthing and non-birthing parents — especially those feeling overwhelmed, untethered, or unsure of how to care for themselves while caring for a baby.

She combines trauma-informed emotional tools, attachment-based insight, and down-to-earth guidance to help you find clarity, confidence, and connection — without pathologizing your experience or pretending this transition is easy.

Whether it’s navigating identity shifts, supporting a growing bond with your infant, navigating lack of sleep, finding emotional balance, or simply feeling seen and understood, she is dedicated to helping you thrive—not just survive—the start of their parenting journey.

Dr. Buxton has created an early parenting coaching service “C &C”—a space designed to provide parenting support to working parents from the very START of their journey with her unique coaching framework, the Career and Cradle Compass

Framework Philosophy:

"There’s no one right way to parent or to build your career. The Career and Cradle Compass provides gentle guidance that empowers you to chart your unique course with confidence, clarity, and authenticity.”

Rather than linear phases, each stage is a point on a compass you might revisit at different points in your journey. Our framework will help you define these key areas and take actionable steps towards directions you want to move in.