Caitlyn Skolnick LCSW, PMH-C

CBT is the backbone of my work with overwhelmed moms. The thoughts that loop at 2am — "I'm failing," "everyone else can handle this," "something is wrong with me" — feel like facts, but they're patterns, and patterns can change. Together we catch them, question them, and replace them with something truer and kinder. You leave with practical tools you can actually use mid-tantrum or mid-two-week-wait, not just insights that stay in the therapy room.

Some things can't be talked through — birth trauma, a loss you're still carrying, the moment infertility rewrote your plans. Brainspotting works where words run out: using eye position to access how the brain and body hold what's stuck, and letting it finally process. Clients often describe reaching things years of talking never touched. It pairs beautifully with the perinatal work I do, because so much of this season lives in the body.

Motherhood comes with feelings you can't fix — grief and joy in the same breath, love and resentment in the same afternoon. ACT is about making room for all of it without letting it run your life: unhooking from the thoughts that bully you, getting clear on what actually matters to you (not what Instagram says should), and taking small steps toward it even on hard days. Less "think positive," more "live like yourself again.

As a PMH-C certified therapist (Postpartum Support International), I specialize in the mood and anxiety challenges of the perinatal season — postpartum anxiety and depression, birth recovery, rage, intrusive thoughts, and the identity shift no one warns you about. As a mom of 3, I know this season from both chairs. You don't have to explain why it's hard — we can get straight to helping you feel like yourself again. And yes, you can bring the baby to session.

Infertility is a grief that lives in the body and the calendar — the two-week waits, the negative tests, the appointments, the "just relax" advice. I hold space for all of it: IVF and treatment stress, miscarriage and loss, deciding what's next, and staying a person while trying to become a parent. As a PMH-C certified therapist, this is a core specialty, not a side note.

From trying to conceive through perimenopause, I support women through the seasons that reshape identity: infertility, pregnancy loss, new motherhood, the mental load of parenting, and the quiet grief of losing yourself in caring for everyone else. Together we build boundaries, quiet the self-doubt, and make your mental health a priority — because when moms are supported, whole families feel it.