Kira Blaustein, Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Blaustein is a clinical psychologist and certified perinatal mental health professional who works with individuals, couples, and families, helping with anxiety, depression, role transitions, relationships and parenting. She uses a psychodynamic approach to therapy to collaboratively explore thoughts, feelings, conflicts, and difficulties in order to find opportunities for growth.

Dr. Blaustein has specialized training in working with parents, babies and toddlers. She also offers parent-infant psychotherapy, meeting with parents together with their babies. Through discussion and observation of the two together, she works 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 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.

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

How Kira practices self care

I feel best when I am active with my mind and body. I enjoy reading and listening to music and comedy. I love hiking, long walks in the park, and spending time with family and friends. I also try hard to eat well and to get good sleep!