Aubrey Carpenter is a licensed clinical psychologist committed to helping parents more seamlessly navigate the ever evolving challenge of becoming parents and raising children in these modern times. She brings over a decade of clinical experience working with youth and families in a variety of clinical and medical settings.

Throughout her work in hospitals, schools, and outpatient mental health clinics around New England, she began to notice something: regardless of the child’s age, diagnosis, or circumstance, parents were often being asked to do immensely challenging things on behalf of their child, often with little support or instruction in how to do so. Moreover, these parents were often exhausted, overwhelmed, and experiencing high levels of stress just trying to keep up. Whether it be perinatal anxiety and body image concerns, navigating the fourth trimester with a newborn, managing age appropriate toddler and adolescent behaviors, or supporting a child through a chronic health condition or psychiatric crisis, parents were often being told by well-intentioned friends and providers to put on their own oxygen mask so that they could be a present parent, with little help in exactly how to do that. Dr. Carpenter’s depth of knowledge about pregnancy and child development means that you do not need to spend weeks explaining exactly why your parenting situation is so challenging, but rather can jump in to better understanding how to find a path to less stress. 

Dr. Carpenter founded It Takes A Village: Parenting Wellness Consulting and Psychotherapy, PLC to create a community resource for parents in need. The goal is to provide brief consultation and short-term support, such as identifying sources of stress, clarifying the steps parents can take to mitigate these stressors, and hopefully therein find more joy in the parenting or caregiving experience.

Dr. Carpenter brings a wide range of evidence-based psychological treatments to her approach in helping parents identify what they need to bolster their village and their own skillset, and what barriers might get in the way. She draws from interventions such as CBT, ACT, RO-DBT, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic/relational approaches to help parents engage in more value-aligned activities and navigate barriers such as perfectionism, challenging family dynamics, and generational trauma. She is also credentialed with the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. Dr. Carpenter is in-network with Medicaid and Bluecross Blueshield. She sees other clients via her self-pay rates.

Dr. Carpenter likes to infuse her approach with humor, metaphors, and narrative approaches as she knows that we all learn best when we make it meaningful and memorable. She enjoys cooking, yoga, skiing, laughing, creating, and spending time outside with her family.