Anna Dekleva, LCSW (she/her)

The Basics

Title: Clinical Therapist

Availability: Limited Availability

Location: Squirrel Hill + Telehealth hybrid

Schedule: Weekdays, evenings, weekends

Insurance/payment: UPMC, Highmark BCBS, Aetna, Cigna

Sliding Scale: $100-140

My Specialties

• Reproductive mental health issues (infertility; abortion; challenges across pregnancy; postpartum anxiety, OCD, depression, or other challenges; early parenting support);

• Reproductive grief and loss;

• Reproductive Trauma (challenging birth, medical trauma, sexual trauma, intimate partner violence);

• Spanish-speaking;

• Grief and loss,

• Adjustment, stress, transitions

My Orientation & Approach

Systems (including familial, transgenerational, historically oppressive, intersectional identity frameworks); Evidence-based trauma therapies; Mindfulness-based therapies; Feminist; Attachment-based.

Some Fun Facts

I love coffee and pastries, intersectional feminist art, and laughing with my whole body.

What working with me is like

I hold space for the suffering that sees the whole person, contextualizes individual and systemic locations, and encourages collaborative transformation that eschews hierarchy and shame. I'm a mother of young children. Yo hablo Español.

Quote

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Audre Lorde

Important about me

I know grief and loss as intrinsic to the perinatal experience and hold astute professional knowledge of the medicalized experiences of perinatal loss, infertility, and medically complex pregnancies and infants. I can support people who have felt unseen or unsupported by friends, family, or other providers in perinatal health events.

I don't look away from how our human experiences are stratified unjustly, including the way systemic harms impact health.

I am deeply focused on helping people feel held, seen, and cared for as they experience transition and navigate newly launched parts of their selfhood about which they feel afraid or uncertain.