Where Healing is a Homecoming

Culturally responsive therapy and consultation for reproductive transitions, grief, and transformation.

What Solmaterna Stands For

Solmaterna exists to offer what many systems cannot: nuanced, trauma-informed, identity-honoring care for people navigating some of life’s most tender transitions.

Here, therapy is not just a service — it’s a space for transformation. A place to be witnessed, held, and reconnected with your whole self.

Why I Do This Work

I founded Solmaterna because I saw too many of us — BIPOC women, birthing people, high-achieving caregivers — carrying grief and complexity alone.

As a clinician, educator, and mother, I know how reproductive experiences can stir long-buried trauma, challenge your identity, and change everything.

My goal is to offer care that is both deeply attuned and clinically excellent. I weave together trauma-informed modalities (like EMDR, somatics, parts work) with a commitment to cultural humility and justice.

Whether you’re grieving, healing, expanding, or simply tired — you are welcome here.

Professional Credentials

Dr. Solimar Santiago-Warner, LCSW, PMH-C

  • Doctor of Social Work New York University

  • Master of Social Work Boston College

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) New York & Connecticut

  • Certified Perinatal Mental Health Provider (PMH-C) Postpartum Support International (PSI)

  • Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) Institute for Creative Mindfulness

  • Advanced Practice of EMDR for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health The Touchstone Institute

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy & Cognitive Processing Therapy New York University

  • Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy – Center for Prolonged Grief Columbia University

  • Zelda Foster Studies Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PELC) Post-graduate certification, New York University

  • Seminar in Field Instruction (SIFI) Columbia University School of Social Work

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Specialized training in:

EMDR

Perinatal Mental Health

Somatic Practices

Grief & Loss Therapy

Experienced consultant & speaker:

Perinatal Palliative Care Practices

Birth trauma

Reproductive grief

Culturally responsive care

Graduate-level faculty + published author

Teaches graduate courses on Grief, Loss, Bereavement, and Cross-Cultural Counseling

SIFI Instructor (Seminar in Field Instruction)

 Published academic work on perinatal palliative care, grief, trauma, reproductive justice, and culturally responsive care

Cultural Responsiveness

I hold space for your intersecting identities — racial, spiritual, gendered — and the systems that shape them.

Justice & Advocacy

Therapy should not replicate harm. Liberation and dignity are core outcomes.

Trauma-Informed Care

Your nervous system sets the pace. Healing doesn’t have to feel unsafe.

Clinical Excellence

You’ll receive thoughtful, evidence-based care — with depth and real tools for change.

Is This the Right Fit?

You don’t have to be in crisis to deserve support.

My clients are often high-functioning and emotionally intelligent — the ones others lean on. They’re navigating reproductive changes, identity shifts, burnout, or grief that feels too nuanced for typical spaces.

If that sounds like you, know this: You are not too much. You are not alone. You are ready.