Perinatal Mental Health Consultation for Therapists & Providers
At least 1 in 5 individuals will experience a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder (or PMAD) in pregnancy or postpartum. Risks are higher for individuals with a history of trauma; loss; depression, anxiety and bipolar disorders; a family history of perinatal mood and anxiety complications; those who experience discrimination and oppression; as well as folks with relationship stressors, recent job or housing changes, and financial stressors. Experiencing a PMAD can create shame, isolation, difficulty bonding with baby among other challenges.
Chances are, if you are a therapist seeing individuals of child-bearing age or you work with families in this time period in another professional capacity, you will find yourself working with a client experiencing perinatal mental health challenges or partnered with someone experiencing a PMAD.
Chances are, if you are a therapist seeing individuals of child-bearing age or you work with families in this time period in another professional capacity, you will find yourself working with a client experiencing perinatal mental health challenges or partnered with someone experiencing a PMAD.
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Support your clients with confidenceConsulting with an expert in perinatal mental health saves you time searching for information and resources; allows your client to continue their therapeutic relationship with you; and helps you feel confident in holding the hope for them that they will feel like themselves again.
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Common topics include:
- screening and assessment
- differential diagnosis and how perinatal anxiety, OCD, mania, depression, and psychosis* can present
- perinatal intrusive thoughts vs postpartum psychosis*
- local, national and online resources for you and for your clients
- integrating a fat liberation lens into perinatal therapy
- practical intervention ideas drawing from attachment, CBT/DBT, somatic, and interpersonal therapies
- treatment planning, risk assessment and crisis planning
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*If you are concerned about your client's safety or the safety of those around them, or they are in active psychosis, your client needs immediate, emergency psychiatric and medical assessment and should be referred to the emergency room.
Past Trainings & Presentations
Perinatal Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Perinatal Management of Bipolar Disorder, Postpartum Psychosis, and Suicide
Perinatal Support Washington 10-week Training Series, October 26, 2022 and November 2, 2022
Perinatal Mental Health
Nurture Seattle Mentor Roundtable, March 23, 2022 (online)
Perinatal Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Perinatal Management of Bipolar Disorder, Postpartum Psychosis, and Suicide; Breastfeeding and Perinatal Mental Health
Trainer for Perinatal Support Washington 10-week Training Series, Fall 2021 (online)
Perinatal Management of Bipolar Disorder and Postpartum Psychosis; Medications in Pregnancy and Lactation for Non-Prescribers
Trainer for Perinatal Support Washington 10-week Training Series, Fall 2020 (online)
What’s the Plan? PMAD Crisis and Recovery Planning As Therapeutic Intervention
Breakout session at the 2020 Postpartum Support International Conference, July 10, 2020 (online)
Postpartum Psychosis – An Evening Clinical Discussion and Reading
Part of the Perinatal Support Washington Evening Clinical Training Series, November 13, 2019 in Seattle, WA.
Caring for a Family from Diagnosis of Postpartum Psychosis to Recovery
Breakout session at the 2019 Postpartum Support International Conference, June 20, 2019 in Portland, OR.
Finding Space for Ourselves and Our Stories: Working in This Field as Clinicians with Perinatal Mood, Anxiety, and Loss Histories
Breakout session at the 2018 Postpartum Support International Conference
July 14, 2018 in Houston, TX
Intensive Perinatal Mental Health Programs
3-hour seminar at the 2018 Postpartum Support International Conference
July 15, 2018 in Houston, TX
Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers with Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders
with Mary Beilman, MS ECSE, CLC & Katie Stockman, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, Pediatric Intervention Team Coordinator at Emerson Hospital.
April 29, 2016 at First Connections, Acton, MA
Supporting Families with Perinatal Emotional Complications: an Every Mother Project training for birth, postpartum, lactation, women's health, early childhood professionals
With the Every Mother Project
April 30, 2016 at Birth to Three Family Center, Ipswich, MA
Postpartum Depression Discussion
February 11, 2016 at the West Suburban Chapter Massachusetts Mothers of Twins Association
Supporting Families with Perinatal Emotional Complications: a training for birth, postpartum and lactation professionals
With the Every Mother Project
November 21, 2015 at the BACE Conference at Newton Wellesley Hospital
Becoming Parents
February 16, 2015 at the Boston Cambridge Expectant Mamas' Group
Perinatal Support Washington 10-week Training Series, October 26, 2022 and November 2, 2022
Perinatal Mental Health
Nurture Seattle Mentor Roundtable, March 23, 2022 (online)
Perinatal Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Perinatal Management of Bipolar Disorder, Postpartum Psychosis, and Suicide; Breastfeeding and Perinatal Mental Health
Trainer for Perinatal Support Washington 10-week Training Series, Fall 2021 (online)
Perinatal Management of Bipolar Disorder and Postpartum Psychosis; Medications in Pregnancy and Lactation for Non-Prescribers
Trainer for Perinatal Support Washington 10-week Training Series, Fall 2020 (online)
What’s the Plan? PMAD Crisis and Recovery Planning As Therapeutic Intervention
Breakout session at the 2020 Postpartum Support International Conference, July 10, 2020 (online)
Postpartum Psychosis – An Evening Clinical Discussion and Reading
Part of the Perinatal Support Washington Evening Clinical Training Series, November 13, 2019 in Seattle, WA.
Caring for a Family from Diagnosis of Postpartum Psychosis to Recovery
Breakout session at the 2019 Postpartum Support International Conference, June 20, 2019 in Portland, OR.
Finding Space for Ourselves and Our Stories: Working in This Field as Clinicians with Perinatal Mood, Anxiety, and Loss Histories
Breakout session at the 2018 Postpartum Support International Conference
July 14, 2018 in Houston, TX
Intensive Perinatal Mental Health Programs
3-hour seminar at the 2018 Postpartum Support International Conference
July 15, 2018 in Houston, TX
Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers with Postpartum Mood & Anxiety Disorders
with Mary Beilman, MS ECSE, CLC & Katie Stockman, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, Pediatric Intervention Team Coordinator at Emerson Hospital.
April 29, 2016 at First Connections, Acton, MA
Supporting Families with Perinatal Emotional Complications: an Every Mother Project training for birth, postpartum, lactation, women's health, early childhood professionals
With the Every Mother Project
April 30, 2016 at Birth to Three Family Center, Ipswich, MA
Postpartum Depression Discussion
February 11, 2016 at the West Suburban Chapter Massachusetts Mothers of Twins Association
Supporting Families with Perinatal Emotional Complications: a training for birth, postpartum and lactation professionals
With the Every Mother Project
November 21, 2015 at the BACE Conference at Newton Wellesley Hospital
Becoming Parents
February 16, 2015 at the Boston Cambridge Expectant Mamas' Group
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