Andrea S. Knox is an author, licensed marriage and family therapist, certified life coach, intermittent stay at home mom and parent educator with over a decade of experience supporting mothers. She was inspired to lift up families in the transition to parenthood after struggling to navigate becoming a first-time mom. She believes if women were equipped with quality information, transparency, and tools for motherhood it would significantly improve the transition to parenthood. She is on a mission to radically transform how women are prepared for becoming mothers.

Andrea received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from UCSD and returned to school for a master’s in Marital and Family Therapy at USD after a career in admin and HR. Her work as a therapist has included supporting clients through hospice, grief and loss, homelessness, domestic violence, trauma, and relationship and perinatal mental health issues. She received education from the Gottman Institute as a Bringing Baby Home facilitator and is Level 3 trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She has advanced training in EMDR and perinatal mental health.

Andrea has served on the boards of the San Diego Chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the Postpartum Health Alliance. She has been a guest speaker for parent groups including MOPS, New Mom School, and the U.S. military. She has provided perinatal mental health education for providers at the County of San Diego and Scripps Health. She also served as a maternal mental health hotline volunteer.

When she’s not making dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets or driving her kids to after school activities, she loves reading with her book club, organizing, eating dark chocolate one square at a time, listening to weird music, being near the ocean, and experiencing travel with her family. She lives in San Diego, California with her two kids and husband, two cats, and an elderly python.