About Mindy Newman, Perinatal Psychotherapist
I am a licensed psychotherapist with a practice centered on reproductive and perinatal mental health. I support clients in New York and New Mexico through experiences including pregnancy loss, infertility, IVF and fertility treatment, pregnancy after loss, birth trauma and postpartum challenges.
These experiences can affect grief, identity, relationships, confidence, anxiety and your sense of what comes next. My role is to offer a thoughtful, compassionate space where you do not have to minimize what you are feeling or move through it according to somebody else's timeline.
My work is practical, collaborative and personalized. Alongside psychotherapy, I can incorporate meditation and contemplative practices where they are genuinely useful, including support with the stress and uncertainty that can accompany infertility, IVF, pregnancy and the postpartum period.
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Although every person's experience is different, reproductive and perinatal mental health can involve overlapping feelings of grief, anxiety, trauma, uncertainty and major life transition. I tailor therapy to what you are experiencing now, while making room for the wider personal history and relationships that may shape how this period feels for you.
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I provide online therapy for clients located in New York and New Mexico. You can read more about each area of my work on the therapy services page.
Psychotherapy
I hold an M.A. in counseling psychology from Lesley University, with a focus in trauma therapy, and an M.T.S. in world religion from Harvard University. I also completed an intensive two-year training in contemplative psychotherapy at the Nalanda Institute and have received extensive one-on-one mentoring in relational and intersubjective approaches to therapy. I am currently participating in one-on-one mentoring in perinatal and reproductive mental health. I have a certificate of completion for PSI's Advanced Perinatal Psychotherapy course and am completing their Maternal Mental Health certificate course.
Meditation
I have been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism since 2004 and have experience teaching a wide range of meditation approaches, including mindfulness, calm-abiding, and compassion- and visualization-based practices from the Tibetan tradition. Where appropriate, I draw on this experience as a complementary resource within therapy, particularly when clients are navigating stress, uncertainty and emotionally demanding periods such as infertility treatment, IVF, pregnancy after loss or the postpartum period.
Qualifications
Experience
Psychotherapy
My work is now centered on supporting people through reproductive and perinatal mental health experiences, while drawing on a broader clinical background in trauma, anxiety and major life transitions. Before entering private practice, I worked extensively with adults and children at prominent Boston institutions including the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, the Franciscan Hospital for Children and the pioneering Yoga Services program at JRI Trauma Center.
Meditation
I began teaching meditation in 2016 after being invited by the Nalanda Institute to teach a weekly drop-in class at Tibet House in New York City. I have since taught recorded series and live classes for Tricycle magazine, as well as workshops for nonprofit organizations including the Ackerman Institute and the Visiting Nurses Association. Today, this experience can complement my psychotherapy work when meditation is appropriate and useful for the individual client.