Dr. Zoya McCants

Some clinicians treat symptoms.

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Others teach techniques.

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My work is about transforming how we understand trauma.

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I am a trauma expert, licensed psychotherapist, counselor educator, author, national speaker, and Founder & CEO of Right to Heal, LLC. My work sits at the intersection of trauma, reproductive mental health, nervous system science, and culturally responsive care, with a particular focus on improving outcomes for Black and Brown women across the reproductive lifespan.

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Throughout my career, I have worked with individuals navigating complex trauma, infertility, IVF, pregnancy after loss, birth trauma, postpartum mental health, reproductive loss, sexual trauma, and major life transitions.

Across these experiences, I recognized a common pattern.

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Too many individuals receive diagnoses that describe their symptoms without addressing the traumatic experiences that shaped them.

Anxiety.

Depression.

ADHD.

Perfectionism.

Emotional dysregulation.

Burnout.

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Often these diagnoses are accurate. Sometimes they're incomplete.

My work challenges clinicians to ask a different question: What happened before these symptoms appeared?

 

That question has become the foundation of my clinical practice, research, teaching, and speaking.

As Founder and CEO of Right to Heal, I provide psychotherapy, consultation, clinical supervision, and professional education grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and nervous-system-informed care.

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I am the author of Fertility to Fourth Trimester: A Clinician's Guide to Perinatal Mental Health Counseling and serve as President of the North Atlantic Region Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (NARACES). Through national presentations, consultation, and scholarship, I am committed to advancing how clinicians conceptualize trauma across the reproductive lifespan.

Whether I am working with clients, training clinicians, consulting with organizations, or speaking on stage, my mission remains the same:

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To transform how trauma is understood so that healing becomes more compassionate, culturally responsive, and clinically effective.

Because when we understand the nervous system, culture, identity, and lived experience, we stop treating diagnoses alone.

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We begin treating people.

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Dr. Z