Kara Hoppe MA, MFT

About

Kara Hoppe, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, teacher, feminist, and mother. She has spent more than a decade as an inclusive therapist working with individuals and couples toward healing and growing, and toward becoming grounded, integrated people with better access to their own instincts, wisdom, and creativity. Hoppe also offers virtual retreats for parents and expectant couples, based on her book Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents, a 2021 INDIES finalist. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Parents Magazine, Fatherly, and YourTango, among other publications. She lives with her husband and two children in Pioneertown, California, and sees clients in private practice via telehealth.

Books by Kara Hoppe MA, MFT

Recent Posts

How I Came to Realize That Grief Is Love

Personal Perspective: Learning to live with grief involves recognizing it as a good and beneficial force in our lives, not something to be overcome or avoided.

The Mental Load in Early Motherhood

Personal Perspective: Postpartum life can bring a heavy mental load as new moms carry out the invisible labor to keep a family moving. Can this load be reframed to make it lighter?

Create and Cultivate a Gratitude Practice

Practicing gratitude is traditionally recognized as good for the soul. Research says it’s also good for our psychological well-being.

How to Have Deeper Conversations With Loved Ones

Many of us live in denial about our own mortality, so we don’t have deep conversations about life with the people we love. How do we change that?

Living Your Values

Learn how to clarify and claim your values so you can live them more fully and consistently in your life, within your family, and in the world.

How to Break Intergenerational Cycles

Your family of origin sets you up with relational patterns. When you become a parent, you have the dynamic opportunity to change inherited patterns that don’t serve you.

My Breast, My Choice

Personal Perspective: The AAP’s new guidelines came as a shock to some. Parents need to decide if nursing for two years is realistic.

Digging Your Way Out of a Resentment Rut

All too often, couples hold onto resentments, even to the point of risking their relationship.

Keeping the Patriarchy Out of Your Parenting Partnership

The mainstream culture may be affecting you as new parents in ways you don’t realize. Learn how to identify and reframe these issues so you can parent more effectively.

Can Your Attachment Style Change?

Attachment styles can be viewed on a continuum whose fluctuations can be navigated.