Kira Blaustein

I am a New York state licensed clinical psychologist and certified perinatal mental health professional who works with individuals, couples, and families, helping with anxiety, depression, role transitions, relationships and parenting. I use a psychodynamic approach to therapy to collaboratively explore thoughts, feelings, conflicts, and difficulties in order to find opportunities for growth.

I have specialized training in working with parents, babies and toddlers. I offer parent-infant psychotherapy, meeting with parents together with their babies. Through discussion and observation of the two together, I work to understand the developing family and to expand ways of being together. This dyadic therapy can address the transition to parenthood, co-parenting, parental blues, depression and anxiety, strengthening the parent-child connection, reading babies’ cues, feeding and sleeping issues, as well as toddler issues such as tantrums, toilet training, and arrival of a new sibling.

I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from Fordham University in 1999 and further training at the William Alanson White Institute’s Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. My interest in parenthood as a pivotal point in life led me to focus on perinatal mental health and to adapt my psychotherapeutic work to the parent-infant relationship. I worked at the Sackler Lefcourt Center for Child Development and completed training with the Anna Freud National Center for Children and Families. I am a graduate of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program and obtained my Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) from Postpartum Support International.