Meredith Futernick-Gerak, LPC
Meredith Futernick-Gerak, LPC specializes in complex trauma, adult children of emotionally immature parents, and LGBTQ+ affirming care.
She is deeply committed to creating a safe, non-judgmental space where curiosity and self-compassion guide the therapeutic journey.
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Meredith is a lifelong learner and advocate for destigmatizing mental health care. She has extensive experience with telehealth and making clients feel comfortable in this modality.
Residents of California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia can work with Meredith.
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Meredith is an Approved Brainspotting Consultant, Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist (KAP).
A book that informs Meredith’s work is When Good Moms Feel Bad by Jessica Tomich Sorci, LMFT, PMH-C. The book compassionately names the invisible emotional labor, shame, and unrealistic cultural expectations many parents carry, often without language for their experience.
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This perspective closely aligns with her brain-body, non-pathologizing approach to therapy; which helps her clients understand their responses as adaptive and reconnect with their own needs. Meredith often integrates these themes into therapy, offering clients a reframe rooted in self-compassion rather than self-judgment.
Meredith lives in New Jersey with her wife and son and loves nerding out on brain science, being out in nature, and the privilege of getting to be a kid again through motherhood.
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Here's Meredith talking about ketamine-assisted therapy on The Dr. Psych Mom Show: