Compassionate Therapist for Miscarriage, Infertility, and Postpartum in Miami, FL
MEET DR. AVELINA PADIN, PHD
Dr. Avelina Padin is a licensed clinical health psychologist and part of the Natal Counseling team, a practice specializing exclusively in reproductive and perinatal mental health. She provides compassionate, evidence-based therapy for women navigating miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy, and postpartum transitions. Whether you’re facing the uncertainty of fertility treatment, coping with pregnancy or infant loss, or adjusting to the emotional ups and downs of early parenthood, Dr. Padin meets you where you are and supports your journey toward healing and resilience.
Why Choose a Reproductive Psychologist for Your Family-Building Journey
You’ve been getting through the days. Functioning. Managing. Holding it all together. But inside, you know this isn’t how you want to live. You’re ready for more than survival mode. You’re ready to feel like yourself again.
That’s what Natal Counseling was built for. We specialize exclusively in the emotional realities of family building, so you can stop explaining your experiences and start receiving support that actually fits your life. Every therapist on our team is a reproductive psychologist, which means we understand the complexities of infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood on both a psychological and physiological level.
This means you’re working with experts who:
Understand the complex interplay between your body, hormones, and nervous system during family building.
Recognize how grief, loss, and the uncertainty of infertility or high-risk pregnancy affect mood, decision-making, and daily life.
Offer targeted interventions that help you regulate your nervous system, manage stress, and rebuild trust in yourself.
When you choose Natal Counseling, you’re choosing more than a therapist—you’re choosing a team that truly gets it from the inside out.
About Dr. Avelina Padin
Dr. Padin’s mission is to empower women navigating the emotional realities of family building. She helps you move through grief, process past traumas, and regain confidence and clarity — so you can feel more like yourself during and after this season of life.
Dr. Padin’s own journey to parenthood was anything but simple. She experienced pregnancy complications, an unexpected preterm birth, and a brief NICU stay. These experiences added a new layer of personal passion to her professional passion for this work. She is honored to hold space for her clients’ stories to support them in their growth and healing.
Approach
Dr. Padin provides evidence-based, client-centered therapy for women navigating reproductive and perinatal transitions, including infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, and postpartum. Her style is warm, collaborative, and directive, helping clients feel both supported and guided during times that can feel uncertain or overwhelming.
Her mission is to empower clients to move through challenging life experiences with greater self-awareness, emotional stability, and confidence, so they can feel more grounded and like themselves again.
In the early sessions, Dr. Padin takes time to understand your story and create a personalized plan tailored to your needs. Your work together may include:
Learning to cope with difficult emotions and intrusive thoughts
Processing grief, loss, or past trauma
Navigating relationship and family stressors
Developing tools to feel more present, connected, and in control
Throughout the process, therapy is tailored to your unique experience—whether you are navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, or the transition into parenthood—so you can move forward with clarity, support, and resilience.
Areas of Expertise
Infertility, Pregnancy and Infant Loss, and Miscarriage Therapy
Dr. Padin has specialized expertise supporting individuals navigating fertility challenges, IVF stress, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, and infant loss. She helps clients process grief, manage uncertainty, and develop strategies to cope while moving forward with hope and resilience.
Trauma Recovery
She provides evidence-based therapy for clients recovering from traumatic experiences, including childbirth trauma and other reproductive-related stressors. Approaches include Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Prolonged Exposure (PE) to help clients process trauma and regain emotional balance.
Perinatal Mental Health
Pregnancy, postpartum, and the perinatal period can be joyous but also overwhelming. Dr. Padin supports birthing parents navigating perinatal depression, anxiety, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), helping them feel steadier and more connected during this transformative time.
Coping with Reproductive Health Challenges
She works with clients facing endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), pelvic pain, gynecologic conditions, and other reproductive health concerns, providing practical strategies and emotional support to navigate these challenges without feeling alone.
Education & Professional Background
I have been passionate about women’s mental health since working with my very first client during graduate school, a young woman navigating pregnancy and everything that came with it – from childbirth anxiety to relationship challenges to the transition to parenthood. Working with clients over the years, I’ve come to understand that so many women are holding stories of their challenges with fertility, pregnancy, loss, childbirth, and parenting that often go unheard.
I was born and raised in Ohio. I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from The Ohio State University and completed residency and fellowship training at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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Infertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Therapy Services in Miami, FL
Infertility Therapy in Miami, FL
Trying to build a family can be exhausting. IVF, waiting for results, and the uncertainty of fertility treatment leaves you overwhelmed, worried it will never happen, on edge, and alone. In our infertility therapy sessions in Miami, we help you cope with stress, make confident decisions, and feel more grounded every step of your fertility journey.
Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss Therapy in Miami
Grief, guilt, and uncertainty are deeply personal after miscarriage and pregnancy loss. Well-meaning friends or past therapists don’t fully get it. In our miscarriage and pregnancy loss therapy sessions in Miami, we help you process emotions, rebuild hope, and develop self-care and resilience strategies to reconnect with your body, your life, and your family-building desires.
Postpartum Therapy in Miami, FL
The transition to parenthood is overwhelming, even when everyone says “you should be happy.” In our postpartum therapy sessions in Miami, we help you process postpartum anxiety or depression or childbirth trauma while reclaiming yourself. You will gain tools to connect with yourself (and your baby and partner) and manage parenting pressure with confidence.
You don’t have to keep navigating this alone. Specialized support that gets family building is available.
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