Nicole Pensak PhD
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Nicole Pensak PhD

Dr. Nicole Pensak and RATTLED were featured by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Media and their The Bright Side Podcast.
RATTLED Awarded Best National Parenting Product Award 2025 (NAPPA)
RATTLED was awarded as Best Book For Parents by Zibby Owens 2025 and was picked by Zibby Owens for her Official Summer Reading List 2024.
RATTLED was selected by Audible for their list of Most Anticipated Reads for 2025 in Well-Being and for Audible's 2025 Refresh Campaign Alongside Dr. Becky Kennedy's book Good Inside.


Dr. Pensak is a Clinical Psychologist, Author of RATTLED, and researcher specializing in treating postpartum mental health, anxiety, OCD, and depression. She is certified in postpartum mental health and provides evidence-based therapy to her patients. Dr. Pensak serves on the Expert Review Board for Parents Magazine and Expert Board of Providers on Mother Untitled. She is a TEDx speaker. She is currently a Co-Investigator on a 4M NIH grant with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, which is testing various forms of caregiver stress management programs, including the mobilized intervention that she developed with UCAMC.

Dr. Pensak received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Rhode Island and completed her APA accredited internship and specialty training in behavioral medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School in psychiatric oncology and an NIH T32 fellowship at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Center in Aging and Palliative Care. As a Harvard, University of Rhode Island, and Yale-trained Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Pensak provides empirically-based treatment that is uniquely tailored to meet the needs of each client.

Prior to moving into full-time private practice, Dr. Pensak was the Director of Psycho-Oncology at Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC), Hope Tower. At JSUMC, she supervised and taught psychiatry residents how to provide Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to their patients. In addition, she directed the psychosocial oncology service, conducted research, and provided direct clinical services to patients with cancer. Prior to JSUMC, she was Assistant Scientist at Hackensack University Medical Center/John Theurer Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center. Prior to that, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine. She was a Career Development Award recipient from the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC) for which she conducted technological intervention development and dissemination research for caregivers of patients with advanced illness. As a 2016 NPCRC Career Development Award grantee, she conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial of a mobilized intervention to help caregivers manage distress and to enhance intimacy. Her academic career focused on caregiver research.

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    • How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain
    • By: Nicole Pensak
    • Narrated by: Lisa Negron
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 min
    • Release date: 10/12/2024
    • Language: English
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