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Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness

Peach Tree is a Brisbane based charity that offers education and support to parents and expecting parents regarding emotional health and mental wellbeing. The peer support organisation, founded by two women with lived experience of perinatal mental illness, aims to reduce the stigma of parenthood and mental illness.

Vision and mission

Peach Tree's vision is emotionally and mentally strong and resilient families in pregnancy, birth, and beyond. As a tree supports its fruit, Peach Tree supports perinatal resilience and recovery with individuals and families through education, social action and by facilitating a passionate and caring community.

Peach Tree is a safe space for parents and families, building a village of support by promoting a positive culture around emotional wellbeing and parenthood.

How Peach Tree can help

Their Parent Wellbeing Centres accommodate clinical, allied health, peer support, and other community-based services to provide expecting parents and existing parents of children aged 0–5 years the treatment and psychosocial support they need to be emotionally and mentally well. The Centres also coordinate outreach and online support options.

Information lines / help lines

  • Call 1800 PEACHY (1800 732 249) Mon to Fri callback service

Programs, apps and tools

  • Sunshine Parenting Program
  • Circle of Security Parenting Program
  • PeerZone
  • Peer Support Groups
  • Community Park Meet Up
  • Baby Song Time
  • Yoga and Mindfulness
  • Crafternoons

Recommended links

Last reviewed: April 2022

Information from this partner

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | Peach Tree

Post traumatic stress disorder For most women, giving birth is a wonderful, empowering and joyous event, but for some women this can be a frightening and anxious experience

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Postpartum Psychosis | Peach Tree

Postpartum psychosis Postpartum or puerperal psychosis is a rare perinatal mood disorder about which most new mothers know very little or nothing at all

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Depression | Peach Tree

Depression Antenatal and postnatal depression are common conditions

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Anxiety | Peach Tree

Anxiety Anxiety can be as equally as debilitating as depression but is often not recognised as a true illness, especially by parents themselves

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Bipolar disorder | Peach Tree

Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (known in the past as “manic depression”) is a mental health condition characterised by periods of extreme low mood and periods of extreme elevated mood or “mania”

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What is Perinatal Mental Illness? | Peach Tree

The term perinatal refers to the antenatal period and the postnatal period combined

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