Therapy Services For Adults

Individual Therapy 

Dr. Nicole Vale provides individual therapy to adults, focusing on interpersonal connections by listening, comforting, and creating a healing environment that embodies trust to facilitate change.

Dr. Vale ensures that the environment is always judgment-free, allowing clients to feel safe in bringing their most personal issues into sessions. She has developed an eclectic, problem-solving approach, incorporating skill sets from different therapies. Her focus is on using an approach that fits each client and their concerns. Dr. Vale is an outcome-oriented therapist who works with clients to identify specific changes to be accomplished while emphasizing the development of effective behavioral skills and a healthier mindset.

Dr. Vale is experienced in working with individuals, couples, and groups. She has helped people with a wide range of issues, including but not limited to depression, anxiety, perinatal and postpartum challenges (including infertility, IVF, and infant loss), transitions to motherhood and fatherhood, communication difficulties, trauma, couples/relationship issues, social difficulties, self-esteem, and existential issues.

EMDR Therapy

Dr. Vale is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. This therapy has been very profound in the general populations as well as those with chronic trauma.

Dr. Vale has specific training in EMDR with a focus in perinatal and postpartum mental health focus. 

Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health 

Dr. Vale has advanced training in perinatal and postpartum mental health, a population that is very important to her. She offers telehealth visits as well as in-home visits for parents who are unable to make it to the office. For parents dealing with traumatic events surrounding their perinatal experience, Dr. Vale provides EMDR therapy with a focus on perinatal mental health.

COMMON EXPERIENCES… 

Many new parents have some difficulty adjusting to the birth of a baby. During the first months with a newborn, it is normal to feel intensely focused on the baby. Many mothers and fathers describe feeling overwhelmed by the demands of an infant and worried about whether they are providing all the “right things” for their child. They may find important family relationships shifting suddenly—relationships with their spouse, their own parents, and older children begin to change unexpectedly. Many mothers say that they are surprised to feel sad and anxious after the birth. They worry that something is wrong with them for feeling this way. Mothers often have worries during pregnancy as well, and are concerned about how they will make these adjustments.

WHEN PREGNANCY AND/OR CHILDBIRTH IS COMPLICATED… 

If you had difficulty becoming pregnant, or had complications during pregnancy or childbirth, you are faced with some unexpected losses and challenges on top of the typical adjustments to a new baby.  The transition to parenthood is one that cannot be faced without support. As parenthood can sometimes be a lonely and isolating experience it is important to reach out for help in order to help yourself and your family.