Therapy for veterans, service members, and the families who carry it with them.
You don't have to explain the culture here. New Birth Family Counseling is led by a U.S. Navy veteran and former nuclear engineer who understands the pace, the pressure, and the particular weight people bring home. We work with active duty, veterans, spouses, and military families across San Diego and by telehealth throughout California.
The hardest part is often after the hard part.
Most people don't come in during the deployment or the crisis. They come in months or years later, when the structure is gone and something still isn't right. If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
You sleep badly, or you sleep and still wake up exhausted.
You're fine until you're not, and the switch flips faster than it used to.
Civilian life feels smaller and less urgent than what you left, and you can't say that out loud.
Your partner says you're not present. You don't disagree, but you don't know how to fix it.
You carry something you did, or didn't do, that doesn't fit into a diagnosis.
You've done therapy before. It helped some. It didn't finish the job.
Someone who has been on both sides of it.
Dr. Regina Ransom served in the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer before building this practice. That work was about finding the actual fault in a complex system rather than patching whatever showed up on the gauge. It is the same instinct she brings to clinical care, and it's why this practice looks for root causes instead of managing symptoms.
She isn't learning military culture from a training module. She understands what it costs to ask for help in an environment that rewards not needing it, what shift work and high-stakes environments do to a body over years, and she doesn't require you to translate.
That matters in small ways that add up. You don't have to explain acronyms, or why you can't just take a Tuesday afternoon off, or why "have you tried journaling" isn't a serious answer.
"I understand the culture, the pace, and the particular kind of weight people carry home, because I carried it too."
And there's a second piece almost no therapy practice offers: we look at the body too.
Sleep that never came back
Broken sleep after service isn't just a habit. We look at what's driving it physiologically, not only behaviorally.
The gut and inflammation piece
Digestive problems, chronic pain, and inflammation show up constantly in this population and are rarely connected to the mental health picture. We run functional lab panels and read them alongside your history.
Energy, focus, and mood
Brain fog and flat mood can have physical contributors: thyroid, hormones, nutrient status. Worth ruling in or out rather than assuming it's all psychological.
A nervous system still running hot
Somatic and body-based work to help your system come down out of a state it learned to live in.
Where this work tends to go
Every plan is built around the person in front of us. These are the areas that come up most often.
Service is carried by the whole household.
Military spouses hold a lot and are asked about it rarely. Kids absorb more than anyone thinks. You do not need your service member to be in therapy in order to get support for yourself.
We work with spouses and partners on their own, with couples together, and with children and teens using play, art, and sand tray therapy suited to their age.
Start with a free consultationBuilt around duty hours, not banker's hours.
The most common reason people in this community don't start therapy isn't willingness. It's scheduling, and not wanting it to become someone else's business.
On cost: New Birth Family Counseling is a private-pay practice. We don't bill insurance, and that's deliberate. It means no diagnosis has to be submitted to a third party, no reviewer decides how many sessions you get, and your care stays between you and your clinician. Fees are listed on our fees page, and we'll talk openly about cost during your free consultation.
What people ask before the first call
You held the line for a long time.
You can put it down here.
A free 15-minute consultation, no commitment. Tell us what's going on, ask whatever you need to ask, and decide afterward. Early morning, evening, and weekend appointments available.