Your employees aren't just workers. They're also mothers navigating one of the hardest identity shifts of their lives.
When working mothers feel unsupported — invisible, burned out, silently struggling — they don't say anything.
They just leave.
Erin Schlozman, LCPC, author of The Myth of the Perfect Mom ( Alcove Press/Penguin Random House) and licensed maternal mental health therapist, brings clinical depth, cultural honesty, and practical tools to your Employee Health Group, ERG, or corporate wellness program.
Because the conversation your working mothers need to have? It starts here.
What happens when working moms feel seen at work?
They stay.
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How Erin Supports Organizations
Erin designs and delivers programming specifically for working mothers and the organizations that want to support them. Grounded in real psychology, not just productivity culture.
17% percent of women leave the workforce within five years of having a child. The cost measured in replacement hires, lost institutional knowledge, and ERG morale lands squarely on your retention numbers. I work with HR leaders, benefits teams, and executive sponsors to fix the gap between the parental-leave policy on paper and what employees actually experience. The result is fewer regretted exits, stronger manager confidence, and a maternal benefits stack that earns its line in the budget.
Keynotes & Workshops
For conferences, all-hands events, ERG kick-offs, and company-wide programming.
Erin speaks on the intersection of motherhood, identity, and workplace belonging — with the warmth of a therapist and the directness of someone who's lived it. Topics include:
The Myth of the Perfect Mom — dismantling the impossible standards that follow working mothers into the office
Matrescence at Work — what the identity shift into motherhood means for your employees, their managers, and your retention
Returning to Work After Leave — the emotional, psychological, and professional realities of coming back
The Burnout No One Talks About — maternal mental health, depletion, and what workplaces can actually do.
EHG/ERG Workshop Series
For Employee Health Groups, women's ERGs, and working parents networks.
Erin facilitates workshops that go beyond information delivery. These are guided conversations — held in a space where your employees can actually exhale. Popular workshop topics:
You Are Not Failing: Understanding Postpartum Identity at Work Helps returning mothers understand why they feel different, disoriented, and like they're not measuring up — and what to do about it.
The Invisible Labor Audit A structured look at the emotional and logistical weight working mothers carry — and how teams and managers can redistribute it more fairly.
From Burnout to Belonging: A Workshop for Working Moms Practical tools for identifying depletion, naming it without shame, and building support structures that actually hold.
Building a Culture Where Working Parents Stay Designed for ERG leaders and HR partners: how to move from performative support to structural change.
Workshops are available as 60-minute sessions, 90-minute deep dives, or half-day intensives.
Corporate Consulting & Policy Advising
For HR Teams, People Operations and Workplace Leaders
As a licensed therapist, maternal mental health advocate, and author — Erin brings a rare triple lens to organizational challenges.
She works with companies on:
Parental leave policy review — assessing your current policy against clinical best practices for the postpartum period and matrescence
Return-to-work transition frameworks — creating the kind of re-entry experience that retains your high performers
Manager training — equipping team leads to support employees through parental transitions with competence and care
EHG/ERG programming strategy — building a 12-month calendar of meaningful, evidence-based programming your employees will actually show up for
Consulting engagements are scoped individually. Initial consultations are 30 minutes.
Not sure which one fits your team? A 20-minute intro call is the fastest way to find out.
Erin Schlozman, MA, LCPC
Therapist • Educator • Author • Mom
She's not a productivity coach with a mom blog.
She's a licensed clinical professional counselor with years of experience in maternal mental health. She's the author of The Myth of the Perfect Mom, published by Penguin Random House and praised by Publishers Weekly, Dr. Becky Kennedy's Good Inside podcast, Motherly, and Johns Hopkins University. She's a mom of two who has lived the exact tension your employees are navigating every single day.
When Erin walks into your EHG meeting or takes the stage at your conference, she brings:
✔ Clinical credibility — licensed therapist, maternal mental health specialist
✔ Cultural authority — nationally recognized author and speaker
✔ Lived experience — mom of two, not just an expert on paper
✔ Real tools — not inspiration, but frameworks your employees can use tomorrow
WHO THIS IS FOR
✅ Employee Health Groups looking for programming that addresses the whole person — not just stress management tips
✅ Women's ERGs ready to go deeper than networking brunches
✅ Working Parents networks that want evidence-based content from a clinician, not a life coach
✅ HR & People Ops teams that know their parental leave policy needs work and aren't sure where to start
✅ Conference & event organizers looking for a speaker who will move the room — and leave people with something real
The Expert Behind
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The Postpartum Life
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After a decade as a therapist supporting new mothers, Erin Levin Schlozman realized that the real crisis wasn’t in individual moms, it was in the myth of perfection that was failing them.
When her own postpartum experience collided with the unrealistic standards she saw every day in her office, she set out to change the conversation. She’s been working to dismantle the myth of the “perfect mom” ever since.
The Myth of the Perfect Mom is a deeply validating, research-informed, and emotionally honest guide to rethinking modern motherhood - from birth to identity to the myth of “having it all.” It’s a permission slip for every mother who has ever thought, I love motherhood, and this isn’t what I expected.
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What People Are Saying
"With grace, clarity, and grounded wisdom, Schlozman redefines what it means to be a good mother, helping moms find their way back to themselves amid the noise of perfection." — Karen Kleiman, MSW, Founder of The Postpartum Stress Center
"Schlozman avoids one-size-fits-all advice, instead encouraging new moms to develop the self-confidence needed to trust themselves... New mothers will find comfort and relief." — Publishers Weekly
"Erin names what so many of us felt but couldn't say — that the postpartum period isn't about getting it right, it's about becoming whole again on your own terms." — Heng Ou, author of The First Forty Days