Therapy for New Dads, Grieving Fathers, and Postpartum Couples
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Fatherhood can bring love, pride, pressure, grief, anger, anxiety, and changes you did 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 online therapy for men in early fatherhood and couples navigating pregnancy, postpartum life, fertility stress, NICU experiences, and perinatal loss.

Matthew Braman, LCSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C serves clients located in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York. He's one of the few male 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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Many fathers have an unquiet mind. Maybe you're irritable and on edge, replaying a frightening birth story, struggling to bond with your baby, grieving a pregnancy or infant loss, or carrying silent pressures to protect and provide for your partner.

Perhaps you and your partner keep having the same kinds or arguments and cannot quickly find your way back to good.

Therapy offers a private place to slow down, understand what's happening beneath the surface, and make deliberate changes. The goal is not to turn you into someone else or make you change everything. It's to help you find your calm more easily, communicate more clearly, 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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Men often face a range of emotional hurdles in their relational lives, and our therapy sessions are expertly designed to address their unique needs. Matthew has a deep understanding for the collective socialization of men.

Many complex and dynamic factors frequently ​constrain and complicate male psychological experiences of masculinity and manhood, pregnancy, early fatherhood, fertility challenges, a NICU journey, perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, traumatic grief & loss, work-related stress, substance use, and postpartum relationships.
 
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 life transition that impacts both you and your birthing partner biologically, emotionally, physically, psychologically, professionally, and socially. You're moving through unchartered territory that can bring many big challenges, big emotions, and big responsibilities.

We help fathers adjust to new roles, optimize their work/life balance, and increase their relationship satisfaction.

We provide trauma-informed care to achieve rapid recovery from trauma and other mental health problems with ART®.
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Therapy for Grieving Fathers
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Advanced training in trauma-informed care guides our sacred work to support you through infertility, reproductive grief, a NICU journey, and perinatal loss (miscarriage, abortion, termination for medical reasons, ectopic pregnancy, still birth, etc.). Pregnancy after loss is another common experience that many clients in our practice encounter –– you're not alone.

It's our privilege to hold space for a father's grief alongside the parts of him wanting to be strong for his partner.

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 postpartum couples with an emotionally-focused approach to explore and change relationship distress cycles.

Why Fathers and Postpartum Couples Choose Verve Psychotherapy

Our therapeutic approach gives men in early fatherhood a tactical plan and a roadmap to follow.

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