Therapy for New Moms

Name: Wildfire Studios
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We help new moms and their families with postpartum depression, birth trauma and making difficult decisions related to maternity.

Tribeca Maternity Addresses the Critical Needs of Women, Their Partners, and Their Families During Maternity

Tribeca Maternity is a branch of Tribeca Therapy offering in-person therapy at our offices in Lower Manhattan, as well as online therapy, for women, their partners, and their families to address the emotional experiences related to family planning, trying to conceive, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood. Rather than a separate practice from Tribeca Therapy, Tribeca Maternity was launched in 2020 with Senior Therapist Rachael Benjamin serving as its Director, with the understanding that women and their families’ concerns are worthy of special attention and deserve a dedicated focus in our practice (Read more about the history of Tribeca Maternity here).

While we recognize that the word maternity itself is insufficient to encompass all experiences with trying to conceive, family planning, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood, we came to this name after much discussion about the lack of inclusive language around this time in women’s lives. Similarly, we understand that the use of women, their partners, and their families is also limiting. Trans, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are parents too, as are cisgender men (Read more about our choice of maternity and other language here).

Concerns Related to Maternity Are Immense: Read More About Our Work at Tribeca Maternity. At Tribeca Maternity, we have often observed that the needs of women, as well as the needs of their partners and families, get less attention than they deserve. In order to address this lack, we wanted to speak directly to some of women’s specific needs during maternity and how we help. Please read more:

Maternity Is a Time for Transition and Disruption: Tribeca Maternity Won’t Leave Women and Their Families Alone

In general, our culture has done a poor job of supporting women in many parts of their lives, but particularly around maternity. This lack of support and resources has isolated women, their partners, and their families, limiting the help they receive. Women and their families are more than a set of symptoms and diagnoses. Instead, we understand maternity as a time of transition and disruption, and one that provides an opportunity for choice, growth, and change.

Tribeca Maternity gets close to women, their partners, and their families (in the variety of ways families can look) to address their present experiences with family planning, trying to conceive, infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. But rather than simply restricting our help to the perinatal or postpartum period alone, we also aim to understand the rest of their lives, relationships, and histories, as well as how these crucial factors continue to impact their emotional lives. While we have the skills and tools to get patients off their feet in the short-term, we also believe that if we give this moment the attention it deserves, in all its complexities, individuals, children, couples, and families’ lives can be healthier in the long-term as well.

Meet our founder and clinical director, Matt Lundquist, LCSW, MSEd

A Columbia University-trained psychotherapist with more than two decades of clinical experience, I've built a practice where my team and I help individuals, couples and families get help to work through difficult experiences create their lives.