Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum Therapists in Brooklyn, NY

I work with clients to build insight and skills that help to clarify challenges and maximize joy. Whether you're transitioning into a different phase of life or feeling stuck (hello, pandemic!), I will meet you there with curiosity and compassion. Together, we'll use a variety of techniques to identify both the barriers and the opportunities to lead the kind of life you want. While there is great strength in practicing healthy coping, self-care, and positive self-talk, I know that this is often much easier said than done! Sometimes we just need help developing, prioritizing and applying these skills and awareness in our daily lives.

I specialize in the intersection of motherhood and high performance burnout supporting my clients in navigating the balance of parenthood, a fulfilling career, and cultivating a joyful and meaningful life. I draw on a holistic mind-body approach incorporating mindfulness techniques, neuroscience, psychodynamic exploration, and cognitive behavioral therapy.

My ideal client has taken a brave first step in this difficult moment in time to find the right therapist for them and to prioritize their mental health. They are looking for support and guidance and are open to identifying tools and techniques to help them reach those goals. They are willing to reflect on the things in their lives they want more and less of, the things that bring them joy and pain and work to maximize and minimize them accordingly. They are willing to be vulnerable and open within a safe space, prepared to work through challenges and changes as needed, all within the therapeutic process.

Welcome! I work with individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, life-role transitions, as well as those seeking emotional support with medical diagnoses, loss, and trauma. I work with patients to uncover and address their core beliefs, emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. Additionally, I provide effective therapeutic care to clients experiencing premenstrual dysphoric disorder, perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, those coping with with infertility and loss. I collaborate with patients to address cognitions and goals around the decision to have children, and relationships after becoming parents.

Have you always dreamt about becoming a mother? Is it what you imagined it to be? You were told that all mothers are happy and perfect. In truth, motherhood is an emotional, complicated and compelling journey from conception, pregnancy , delivery, and into postpartum . No one tells you how hard it can be to actually get pregnant. Others seem to get it so easily, yet you struggle. When you are pregnant, instead of feeling endless joy, you feel sad, scared, angry or anxious. After the baby comes, instead of feeling confident as a new mother, you wonder all the time, what if you aren’t the perfect mother?

I believe that therapy is a space for us to tackle life’s difficulties as well as celebrate life, find joy, and build self-compassion. I provide empathic, nonjudgmental psychotherapy, focused on deepening a sense of self-awareness, gaining insight into your emotional experiences, and empowering you to live a more fulfilling life. My therapeutic approach is rooted in relational and attachment-based theories. I frequently use humanistic, and behavioral interventions tailored to meet the needs of the individual or couple I am working with. I strive to create authentic, and collaborative relationships with everyone I work with.

Specialties: Communication, Anxiety, Postpartum moms, and couples/family relationships. I specialize in supporting individuals, couples and families through periods of life transitions. Collaboratively with the client, we will increase understanding of the presenting problems, and learn appropriate coping skills and tools. This can help clients to gain insight to the problem, and an ability to decrease anxiety and improve confidence, allowing a shift from emotions like anger and sadness, to love and compassion.

I am a New York-based psychotherapist providing consultation as well as short- and long-term therapy to individuals, couples, and families. My clients often reach out when experiencing difficult life transitions, emotional upheaval, feelings of "stuckness," parenting concerns, relationship conflict, or loss. My practice is affirming and inclusive of clients of all backgrounds, identities, and family structures.

I specialize in women’s mental health and wellness across the lifespan and work with clients on areas such as anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, work/career identity and balance, stress management, reproductive and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD), parenting issues, bereavement, academic challenges and existential issues.

Deciding to seek out help is often not an easy decision. As a relationship and marital therapist and a seasoned infertility counselor who also experienced both infertility and pregnancy loss, I am very aware of the impact decision-making choices have on people''s daily lives and relationships. My approach is interactive and solution focused, and rooted in the belief system that with knowledge, the right support systems, and practical tools one can overcome any challenges in their relationship/marital conflicts, anxiety, depression, and recurring negative thoughts in their daily lives and their infertility and pregnancy loss.

The therapeutic process can be one of liberation, insight and deep compassion towards your own humanity. Trauma, pain, shame and life's disappointments impact our bodies, minds and spirits. As your therapist, I hold hope for your process. I am a collaborative and relational therapist. I believe the healing process is a creative one, I have a multi-disciplinary approach to psychotherapy. As a Somatic Psychotherapist I know that healing and well-being must include our whole system in order to feel integrated and to know ourselves on an embodied level.

I believe that the best therapy holds up a mirror to help us see what we could not on our own. These moments of understanding are the building blocks of change. My goal as a therapist is to help create an awareness of patterns that are holding you back and find ways of moving forward through a collaborative treatment plan.

I am passionate about helping clients achieve their goals of leading more satisfying, productive, self-directed lives. Using an insight-oriented approach, we’ll focus on relational patterns, communication styles, and early childhood influences, integrating tools and skills as needed. We’ll work to foster health, growth and healing at your pace. My practice is particularly focused on life transitions such as dating, marriage, pregnancy , parenthood, and illness. I’ve worked extensively with survivors of trauma, both childhood and adult onset, and I’ve also developed a subspecialty in maternal wellness and perinatal mental health.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist specializing in helping children, adolescents and their families. I also work with adults seeking to improve their parenting relationships with infants, children and adolescents. A particular area of focus is in supporting individuals facing fertility, pregnancy loss and postpartum challenges. I can provide home-based support to new parents seeking to have the best possible attachment with their children. I offer compassionate care focused on both relieving psychological distress and improving the quality of individual and family life.

I am a clinical psychologist experienced in working with individuals and couples around a variety of emotional and life challenges, including grief and loss, trauma, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance abuse. I specialize in working with women and couples dealing with challenges around pregnancy , childbirth , postpartum depression/anxiety, and adjustment to parenting. I also see mothers and infants together to address issues in attachment and communication. My orientation is primarily psychodynamic and interpersonal, although I am trained in CBT, DBT, and CPT and do integrate these strategies as needed.

Do you feel anxious most of the time? Perhaps you're trying to get pregnant and the IVF schedule is making your head spin. It may be that you're pregnant, but you're nervous about how a baby will change your relationship and sense of self. Or, you're grieving a loss, and you've heard "at least you know you can get pregnant" one too many times. You want to make sense of all the complicated, and often competing, emotions you feel, so that you can let go of what is no longer serving you.