Nicole Pensak
Nicole Amoyal Pensak, PhD, is a nationally recognized licensed clinical psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health, specializing in anxiety, depression, and OCD treatment. She trained at the Yale School of Medicine, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and currently owns a private practice based in Monmouth, New Jersey. Dr. Pensak is also on the Expert Provider Board for Mother Untitled and a TEDx speaker. She is an ongoing mental health correspondent for NBC news, a featured writer in Katie Couric media, and an expert leading voice in postpartum psychosis and postpartum mental health.
Nicole Pensak
Nicole Amoyal Pensak, PhD, is a nationally recognized licensed clinical psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health, specializing in anxiety, depression, and OCD treatment. She trained at the Yale School of Medicine, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and currently owns a private practice based in Monmouth, New Jersey. Dr. Pensak is also on the Expert Provider Board for Mother Untitled and a TEDx speaker. She is an ongoing mental health correspondent for NBC news, a featured writer in Katie Couric media, and an expert leading voice in postpartum psychosis and postpartum mental health.
Books by Nicole Pensak

Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain
Nicole Pensak
Hardback, 2024
This reassuring and practical handbook helps women navigate the seismic changes—in identity and emotion—that motherhood brings
Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain
Nicole Pensak
E Book
matrescence,noun/mæ'tres.ents/ the process of becoming a mother: The physical, psychological and emotional changes you go through after the birth of your child… Largely unexplored in the medical...
Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain
Nicole Pensak
Paperback, 2026
matrescence,noun/mæ'tres.ents/ the process of becoming a mother: The physical, psychological and emotional changes you go through after the birth of your child… Largely unexplored in the medical...



