A psychotherapy focused on parenting to treat perinatal psychopathology, to support the mother-baby bond and to prevent disorders in the child. The pregnancy and first year following childbirth are the most conducive periods of life for the emergence of psychological disorders in women. The consequences can be dramatic for them, for the bond with their child and for the child’s somatic, social and psychological development. This article shows why it is important to take care of the psychic dimension of parenthood for an effective treatment of these disorders, so that the therapeutic effects benefit at the same time the woman, the mother-baby bond and the child. A model of brief psychotherapy focused on parentality is proposed, which allows to intervene from pregnancy and then to include the child in the postpartum period.