Online Therapy in New York City for Pelvic Pain, Postpartum Mental Health, and OCD
Dr. Anna Yam is a licensed psychologist providing telehealth therapy to New Yorkers living with pelvic pain, painful sex, postpartum mental health challenges, and OCD. If you've already tried medical treatment and are still struggling — specialized psychological care may be the missing piece
Pelvic Pain & Painful Sex Therapy in New York City
You've seen the gynecologist. Maybe a pelvic floor physical therapist too. Perhaps you've been told everything looks normal — and yet the pain continues. Sex is still difficult or impossible. Intimacy feels fraught. And you're running out of ideas about where to turn next.
What's often missing is treatment that addresses how your nervous system, your thoughts, and your emotional experience have become part of the pain itself.
In New York City, women with pelvic pain often have access to excellent pelvic floor physical therapists and gynecologists — and still find themselves without answers. The psychological component of pelvic pain is consistently the least resourced part of the care picture, and finding a psychologist with genuine specialization in this area is difficult even in a city with abundant mental health providers.
Dr. Anna Yam is a pain psychologist with advanced specialized training in pelvic pain. She works with New York women experiencing:
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Vaginismus — inability or difficulty with penetration, vaginal clenching or spasm
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Vulvodynia — chronic vulvar burning, stinging, or pain at the vaginal opening
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Painful sex (dyspareunia) — including pain that developed after childbirth
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Endometriosis-related pain
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Pelvic floor dysfunction
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Interstitial cystitis and bladder pain
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Treatment focuses on the fear-pain cycle, nervous system sensitization, and the psychological and behavioral patterns that keep pain going, at times long after the underlying physical cause has been addressed — or when no clear physical cause has been found.
All sessions are via telehealth, available to anyone located in New York State.
Postpartum Mental Health Therapy in New York City
The postpartum period is one of the most common times pelvic pain begins — or gets worse.
Painful sex after childbirth, fear of intimacy after a difficult delivery, and the emotional weight of feeling like your body no longer belongs to you are experiences that rarely get addressed in a six-week postpartum checkup.
For many New York women, the pressure to bounce back quickly — professionally, socially, physically — makes it even harder to acknowledge that something is wrong.
Dr. Yam works with new and expecting parents in New York navigating:
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Postpartum OCD — including intrusive thoughts about the baby
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Birth trauma and difficult delivery experiences
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Painful sex and physical intimacy changes after childbirth
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The identity shifts and relationship strain of early parenthood
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Pregnancy-related anxiety and perinatal mood disorders
New York City parents often navigate early parenthood without nearby family support, in smaller living spaces, under significant financial and professional pressure. These aren't background stressors — they're clinical risk factors for postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and they matter in treatment.
Postpartum OCD deserves particular mention. Intrusive thoughts about harming the baby, contamination fears, or rituals around the baby's safety are among the most distressing and least talked-about postpartum experiences — and among the most treatable. Many parents suffer in silence because they're afraid of what their thoughts mean. They don't mean what you fear. And there is highly effective treatment called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) that can help you reclaim your early parenthood experience.
For new parents in New York City, leaving home for a weekly appointment is a genuine barrier — between feeding schedules, sleep deprivation, and the logistics of navigating the city with a newborn. Telehealth removes that barrier entirely. For postpartum OCD specifically, there is an additional clinical advantage: ERP exposures practiced in your actual home environment — where the intrusive thoughts actually occur — are often more effective than those done in an office.
All sessions are via telehealth, available to anyone located in New York State.
OCD & Anxiety Therapy in New York City
OCD is one of the most misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions in mental health — and one of the most treatable.
Many people with OCD have been in therapy for years without significant improvement, because most therapists are not trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment for OCD. ERP works by gradually and systematically reducing the power of obsessions by breaking the cycle between intrusive thoughts and compulsive responses.
Dr. Yam provides compassionate ERP therapy for adults across New York State, including:
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Classic OCD presentations — contamination, checking, harm OCD
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Pure O — predominantly intrusive thoughts without visible compulsions
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Postpartum OCD — intrusive thoughts related to the baby or new parenthood
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Health anxiety and illness OCD
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Relationship OCD (ROCD)
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OCD with co-occurring anxiety disorders
New York City has no shortage of therapists — but finding one with genuine ERP training and availability is harder than it should be. Telehealth makes specialist access possible regardless of where in New York you're located, without adding a commute to what is already a demanding treatment process.
ERP is challenging work. It asks something real of you. The good news is that the results are transformative in a way that years of talk therapy often cannot match.
All sessions are via telehealth, available to anyone located in New York State.