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Ann Dunnewold, PhD, is a psychologist and author in Dallas. Specializing in women’s issues, Ann’s mission is to arm women against the pressures of modern motherhood. Ann has served as president of Postpartum Support International (PSI), and was the 2008 ...
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Dr. Ariel Dalfen is a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is the head of the Perinatal Mental Health Program. She specializes in treating women who are pregnant or postpartum. After completing her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, she ...
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Birdie Gunyon Meyer is an RN with a Master’s Degree in Psychology and Counseling. She is the Founder of the Perinatal Mood Disorders Program at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is Certified in Perinatal Mental Health, and is ...
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Christena Raines, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, PMH-C, is a dual trained nurse practitioner in Women’s’ Health and board certified in Psychiatric-Mental Health and has practiced as a Perinatal Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for over 15 years. Chris was a member of the ...
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Crystal Clancy is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), wife and mother of two. Her personal journey to building a family came with both infertility and postpartum depression (PPD). Realizing how little help there was available, she decided to ...
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Dr. Singley is a San Diego-based board certified psychologist and Director of The Center for Men’s Excellence. His research and practice focus on men’s mental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychology and the transition to fatherhood. Dr. Singley won ...
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Dvora Entin, LCSW, PMH-C, has developed programs for Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) in both Phoenix and Philadelphia to address the unique mental health needs of the Orthodox Jewish community, with special interest in maternal wellness, infertility, culturally nuanced ...
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Elizabeth O’Brien, LPC, owns her own private practice in Grant Park specializing in maternal mental health. She is a “therapist’s therapist”, facilitates new moms support groups, provides advanced trainings in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and co-facilitates a consultation group ...
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Jane Honikman, M.S., began her career in Parental Mental Health in 1977 when she co-founded Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP). Her expertise is based upon her struggles as a new mother that are described in her book, My Diary A ...
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Dr. Joanna Cole is the Curriculum Director for PSI. She is a clinical psychologist and manager of psychosocial programs at the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She provides psychotherapy to pregnant women ...
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Dr. Driscoll is a psychiatrist/owner at The Allegro Center, LLC. Her private practice focuses on the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders in women during times of hormonal change, such as pregnancy, postpartum, the menstrual cycle, and perimenopause. She is ...
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Katie Kmiecik, LCPC, PMH-C is a co-founder of Postpartum Wellness Center (PWC), a private practice boutique in the Chicago suburbs specializing in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), where she works with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Katie has a ...
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Kelly Coffman, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Emory University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. She works in the Emory Women’s Mental Health Clinic, specializing in treating patients with mental health concerns related ...
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Dr. Kendra Flores-Carter is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at California Baptist University. She is Co-Chair of the Inland Empire Maternal Mental Health Collaborative and is a member of the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Institutional Review Board (IRB). Her ...
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Kimberly Brandt, DO, PMH-C, is a graduate of A.T. Still University Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency training in general psychiatry at the University of Missouri—Columbia. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry ...
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Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway is an Assistant Professor, the founder and director of New Vision Counseling Center, LLC, and founder of New Vision Consulting and Training, LLC.  She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Distance Credentialed Counselor, ...
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Laura J. Miller, MD, is the Medical Director of Reproductive Mental Health for the Veterans Health Administration. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her psychiatry residency ...
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Leslie Butterfield, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in reproductive health. In her Seattle private practice she works with women and couples dealing with fertility issues, pregnancy loss, the transition to parenthood, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, traumatic birth, and ...
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Lisa Tremayne is a Registered Nurse with a certification in Breastfeeding as well as Childbirth Education.  Lisa is the founder and the Director for the Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New ...
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Dr. Nagalla is a psychiatrist working at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services. After her general psychiatry training at Nassau University Medical Center, she pursued a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at University of Michigan. She works in the Mother Baby ...
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Marianela Rodriguez-Reynaldo is a mother, postpartum Doula, Certified Lactation Educator, and Clinical Psychologist specialized in Maternal Mental Health. She completed her Master’s degree at Xavier University in Ohio and went on to complete her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the ...
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Marlene P. Freeman, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Abra Prentice Foundation Chair in Women’s Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  In addition, she serves as Associate Director of the Center for ...
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Michelle Lacy, MA, LPC, PMH-C, is the Executive Director for Women’s Health Innovations of Arizona (WHI), a licensed outpatient treatment center and non-profit specializing in maternal mental health care. Michelle is a founding member of WHI and has worked to ...
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Dr. Michelle Wiersgalla is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School and Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency. She has been practicing adult psychiatry since 2004 and has specialized in reproductive psychiatry since 2008. She is the psychopharmacology consultant to ...
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Dr. Nicole Cirino is a physician with specialization in Reproductive Psychiatry. She is an Associate Professor at Oregon Health Science University where she teaches medical students, residents and other physicians about Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Female Sexual Medicine ...
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Originally from Arlington Texas, received undergraduate degree in Biology from Priarie View A&M University. Attended Medical School at University of Louisville in Kentucky and Psychiatry Residency at Harvard. Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College ...
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Pec Indman, PA, EdD, MFT, PMH-C, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of maternal mental health. A former family practice physician assistant with a master’s degree in Health Psychology and a doctorate in Marital and Family Therapy, she ...
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Rebecca Christophersen is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She received her BSN from Loyola University and her MSN from Rush University. Ms. Christophersen has extensive sub-specialty training and experience in perinatal psychiatry. Her perinatal psychiatry work began ...
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Dr. Samantha Huguelet is the Director of the Mother and Baby Intensive Outpatient Program at Nystrom and Associates.  She volunteers on the Board of Directors of Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Minnesota (PPSM) and is the Assistant Director.  She facilitates perinatal ...
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Dr. Samantha Suffren is a neuropsychiatry board certified physician. She obtained her undergraduate degree as a Howard Hughes Fellow majoring in Biochemistry from North Carolina State University. Upon graduating she became involved in oncogenetic research at the National Institute of ...
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Sara Pollard, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CCFP, IMH-E® Infant Family Specialist, is a passionate perinatal mental health advocate. In her formative years, Sara learned firsthand how untreated mental health conditions impact individuals, families, and society. After the birth of her second ...
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Shari-ann H. James, PhD, PMH-C, is a licensed psychologist and certified perinatal mental health professional with over fifteen years of experience. Her psychotherapy practice focuses on women, with a special emphasis on reproductive and perinatal mental health and the unique ...
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After two life-threatening bouts of postpartum illness, Dr. Shoshana Bennett helped pioneer the field of maternal mental health.  She founded Postpartum Assistance for Mothers in 1987, became president of California’s state organization Postpartum Health Alliance, and then served as President ...
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Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Women’s College Hospital Shirley A. Brown Memorial Chair in Women’s Mental Health Research, Women’s College Research Institute Associate Professor & Director of the Division of Equity, Gender and Population, Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto Adjunct ...
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Tiffany Conyers has a passion for working with women in the areas of maternal mental health, parent/child attachment building, and breastfeeding education. She is a bilingual Certified Breastfeeding Specialist and Clinical Social Worker in the states of Georgia and South ...
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Vivien K. Burt, MD, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. In addition, she is Founder and Co-Director of The ...
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