Tribeca Maternity Expands To Tribeca Therapy's Park Slope, Brooklyn Office

Tribeca Maternity Expanded To Park Slope, Brooklyn For Many Of The Same Reasons Trying, Expecting, And New Parents Chose The Neighborhood 

Tribeca Maternity is excited to announce that we are extending our services to Tribeca Therapy’s newly opened Park Slope, Brooklyn office. With good schools, nearby hospitals, copious playgrounds and parks, a bit more room, and more of a communal feel than Manhattan, we understand why trying, expecting, and new parents pick Brooklyn to start or grow their family. These are many of the same reasons why we chose Park Slope for our branch’s second home.

Park Slope and the nearby Brooklyn neighborhoods accessible to our office make up a community that is less transient than the patients we typically see in our Lower Manhattan office (though we’ve worked with patients from Brooklyn through our twelve years as a practice). The maternity communities in Park Slope and Brooklyn in general often share amongst themselves joy and information about family planning, trying to conceive, infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, including C-sections and birth trauma, surrogacy, adoption, feeding decisions and adjustments, postpartum depression and anxiety, and early parenthood. And we will contribute to these communities by providing therapy that pays specialized attention to trying, expecting, and new parents themselves and a place where they can feel supported, pushed, and cared for through these frequently underserved emotional experiences.

We Help Brooklyn Women, Gestational Carriers, Their Partners, And Their Families Build Or Grow Their Family In The Way That Works For Them

Brooklyn women, gestational carriers, their partners, and their families aren’t afraid to rework how family planning, infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting is done. We aren’t either. Whether deciding if you want kids, figuring out how you want the baby to get here, or expecting another baby in a growing family, we help you name how you expect, want, and need your family to be and look, as well as unpack what may be in the way, need to be felt, or processed whether individually or with a partner.

In particular, Brooklyn individuals, couples, and families are more likely to create more collaborative family structures, including co-parenting and stay-at-home partners. At Tribeca Maternity, we not only focus on the individual's care, but also the couple and family. Partners are often left out of the picture in mainstream maternity care. In contrast, we believe providing care for the partner is key, whether in individual or couples therapy. In our Park Slope, Brooklyn office, we give partners attention and space to be with what feelings and thoughts are coming up for them during maternity.

Even In A Progressive Neighborhood, We Understand How LGBTQ+ and Non-Traditional Families Can Be Affected By Heteronormative And Cisnormative Pressure

Park Slope is a neighborhood that has long attracted LGBTQ+ individuals, couples, and families, as well as non-traditional couples and families. At Tribeca Maternity, we understand that the presumptions of heteronormativity and cisnormativity, in addition to other cultural norms such as monogamy, come up around maternity in a way that is almost impossible to ignore or avoid. This can add a lot of pressure on LGTBTQ+ individuals, couples, and families, even in a progressive neighborhood like Park Slope, Brooklyn in a progressive city like New York.

In our new Park Slope, Brooklyn office, we make space for individuals, couples, and families to navigate how socially imposed pressures are projected onto you, your body, your choices, your relationships, and your families. We also help you decide how you want to rework, renovate, or outright reject these norms in order to build or grow your family as you want it to look.

Our Park Slope, Brooklyn office is queer and trans-friendly, anti-racist, and sex-positive. However, we also aren’t afraid to voice not knowing and to learn from, with, and for our patients. We bring a deep curiosity to therapy and can hang with all types of families that are creating their own culture, however traditional or non-traditional. 

Maternity Is A Time Of Transition That Provides The Opportunity For Change Within Relationships, Families, And Communities

At Tribeca Maternity, we believe maternity is a time of transition, which offers the opportunity for disruption, growth, choice, and change. Looking beyond diagnosis or simply the postpartum period, we seek to not only understand how patients are responding to this current transition, but how their past experiences and relationships, family of origin, and the surrounding culture and politics continue to impact their present emotional experiences.

This allows women, gestational carriers, their partners, and their families the opportunity to do maternity in the way they choose. And though often underappreciated, these are political choices, whether deciding to grieve infertility losses, facing the loss of a pregnancy rather than hiding it to make others more comfortable or deciding not to talk about it, building non-traditional family formations (queer, blended, poly, open, friend group family, co-parenting), having a child later in life, or deciding to become a single parent. 

Likewise, we see our work in our Park Slope, Brooklyn office as deeply political, affecting not only the individual, couple, and family, but also the neighborhood and beyond. Emotionally and relationally healthy adults create healthier kids. Families create healthier adults who, in turn, create a healthy world.