Navigating Early Fatherhood, Building Secure Attachments

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Verve Psychotherapy is an online therapeutic sanctuary for new dads, grieving fathers, and their postpartum partners. As Your Right Hand Therapy Man, Matthew Braman, LCSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C understands the many unique challenges, expectations, and pressures that men often face in today's fast-paced world, especially when journeying through the emotional & relational landscapes of manhood, fatherhood, and marriage. That's why Verve Psychotherapy promotes a mindful masculinity that can help you clarify a mental health diagnosis and provide you with a roadmap to navigate fatherhood with confidence and connection.

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Discover Emotional Intelligence, Mindful Self-Leadership

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With over a decade of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Specialist, we provide gender-specific mental health care tailored specifically for men in early fatherhood. Whether you're a new or expectant dad seeking guidance & support, a grieving father figuring out how to cope with pregnancy or postpartum loss, or a partner trying to strengthen your emotional & relational connection in the prenatal & postpartum periods, we're here to help you slow things down while we safely work through the intricacies of your mind, your nervous system, your inner child, your family, your relationship, and your career so that you can get the right things moving forward more smoothly and more quickly.

 

Tailored Therapy for New Dads in Early Fatherhood

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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 including the overt & covert, adverse impacts of capitalism, patriarchy & the manosphere, white supremacy, cultural norms, and social expectations on the psychology of men & boys. Many of these deeply rooted, external factors frequently constrain and complicate individual male experiences of manhood, pregnancy, early fatherhood, a NICU journey, perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, traumatic grief & loss, work-related stress, substance use, and postpartum relationships.​

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Becoming Dad, Growing Together

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Going from Dude to Dad is a massive identity shift and life transition, moving you through unchartered territory that can bring many big challenges, many big emotions, and many big responsibilities. Our therapeutic approach can help fathers increase their compassion & self-compassion, understanding of what to expect in early fatherhood, & abilities to cope with life in the NICU, and to improve their paternal self-esteem & parenting skills, work/life balance, and relationship satisfaction. We provide trauma-informed care to help clients achieve rapid recovery from trauma and other mental health problems with ART®. We also extend our support to postpartum couples, creating a tactical plan to explore and change emotional & relational distress cycles.

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Safe and Confidential

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We prioritize your privacy and confidentiality. We understand the importance of creating an online therapeutic environment where you can openly express yourself without fear or judgment. Our teletherapy practice is committed to cybersecurity so that you can share your thoughts & emotions more freely, knowing that your privacy is HIPAA-secure and protected at all times.

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Empower Your Verve

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As Your Right Hand Therapy Man, we're here to guide you through the therapeutic process 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.