Therapy for New Dads, Grieving Fathers, and Postpartum Couples:
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Fatherhood can bring feelings of love, pride, pressure, grief, anger, anxiety, and changes you may not expect. You may look capable on the outside, trying to be strong, while feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unlike yourself on the inside.

Verve Psychotherapy provides specialized individual therapy for men in early fatherhood and couples therapy for partners navigating fertility stress, pregnancy, NICU trauma, perinatal loss, parenting stress, and their postpartum life.

Matthew Braman, LCSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C serves clients in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, & New York as one of the few certified paternal perinatal mental health specialists in the United States.
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You don't have to wait until things fall apart:
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Maybe you and your partner keep having the same kinds or arguments and cannot quickly find your way back to good.
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Many fathers have an unquiet mind. Maybe you're irritable and on edge, replaying a frightening birth story, struggling to bond with your baby, carrying reproductive grief, and shouldering silent pressures to protect & provide for your partner.

Therapy offers a private place to slow down, understand what's happening beneath the surface, and make deliberate changes to help find your calm more easily and show up in ways that fit the partner, father, and man you want to be.

Specialized Support for Paternal Perinatal Mental Health:
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The collective socialization of men deeply impacts the huge transition to fatherhood.

Our therapy sessions are expertly designed to meet your unique needs.
 
As Your Right Hand Therapy Man, we're here to guide you through your fatherhood journey while offering judgment-free support, expert insights, and practical tools to help you adjust to everything that's changing within you and all around you.​
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Therapy for New Dads and Expectant Fathers:​​​
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Going from Dude to Dad is a massive identity shift and relational life transition that absolutely impacts you and your birthing partner. You're moving through uncharted territory that can bring many big challenges, overwhelming emotions, and unfamiliar responsibilities – like sharing the mental load as a Teammate Dad.

We help fathers adjust to new roles, optimize their work/life balance, and increase their relationship satisfaction.
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Therapy for Grieving Fathers:
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Advanced, specialized training in trauma-informed care guides our work to support you through infertility, reproductive grief, NICU trauma, perinatal loss (miscarriage, abortion, termination for medical reasons, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, etc.), and pregnancy after loss. It's our privilege to hold space for a father's grief alongside the parts of him trying to be strong.
 
We offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy to achieve rapid recovery from trauma, grief and other mental health problems.

Postpartum Couples Therapy:
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Help for high conflict couples, betrayal trauma, resentment, intimacy, communication, the mental load, and the adjustment stress of becoming parents together through this new stage of relational life –– whatever that may look like.
 
We empower you and your partner to explore and change relationship distress cycles, finding more calm and connection.

Why Fathers and Postpartum Couples Choose Verve Psychotherapy:

We join you through the truth. We safely guide you through relational trauma work. We teach you new relational skills.

Matthew Braman, LCSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C is a seasoned, licensed clinical social worker in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, & New York, specializing in paternal perinatal mental health, perinatal loss, and postpartum couples.