Pregnancy (Prenatal Mental Health)

Preparing to welcome a baby can elicit many powerful emotions. Expectant moms and dads can expect to feel excitement, fear and everything in between. Additionally, some women experience a heightened level of depression or anxiety during pregnancy. A mental health professional who specializes in pregnancy can help expectant mothers and their partners address the wide range of issues that pregnancy and childbirth may cause.

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Guillaume Counseling Services (She/Her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

We specialize in maternal mental health and paternal mental health, where we work with both mom and dad, dealing with pregnancy related stress, anxiety, and depression. We provide individual therapy, family therapy, and couples therapy.

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Kaysey Crump (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, PMH-C

Supporting pregnant people during the wild, magical, often challenging time of pregnancy.

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Kristen Seghete (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist

PhD, PMH-C

I provide services for most prenatal mental health concerns and symptoms - including depression, anxiety, heightened stress, and high-risk pregnancy. Preventive therapy for individuals who are concerned about developing depression and anxiety is also available. I offer both individual and maternal-infant therapy.

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ALISSA BURNHAM (She/Hers)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, PMH-C

I am a perinatal mental health specialist offering services to across the perinatal phase including pregnancy, postpartum, anxiety, depression, relationship changes, and parenting challenges.

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Amy Galaviz (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, PMH-C

As a mother of three, I can identify how important is to to receive extra support during such a transitional time. As a practitioner, I focus my work to support women throughout each stage of motherhood from preconception, throughout pregnancy, during postpartum and beyond. Facing motherhood can be difficult, but with the right support you can find the joy it can bring. Reach out to a trained specialist today! www.mindbodymamapdx.com

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Alicia Turgesen (She/Her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

MA, LMFT

Listen, pregnancy is a magical thing but we just aren't given *all* the information we need to truly prepare for the day we become parents. Sure, the birthing classes help, but what about classes on how to prepare for the shifts in your mental health, relationship with your partner, or all those uncomfortable feelings of resentment that inevitably show up? When you have non-judgmental space to express yourself and feel supported the impacts go beyond just you!

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Heather Phillips (She/Her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, PMH-C

I have extensive experience treating perinatal mood disorders and supporting folks with other challenges and struggles related to their reproductive health, or parenting journeys. I am licensed as a Perinatal Mental Health Clinician (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International. I am also trained in Interpersonal Therapy for the Perinatal Population, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused-CBT, and The Incredible Years Parent and Child Interventions.

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Sara Carmona (She/Her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, PMH-C

I specialize in perinatal mental health which includes making decisions about starting a family and the journey to birth. For some, the path is straightforward. For others, it winds, bends and leads to unwanted places - infertility, loss, sadness, anxiety, or grief. I help families address these concerns so they move toward parenthood feeling exceptionally supported, encouraged and well.

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Megan Sapp (she/her)

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

PMHNP, CNM, FNP

I am also a certified and practicing Nurse Midwife

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Cat Bice (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

Pregnancy and childbirth is expected to be a joyous time, but often no one talks about the pain of loss and the difficult emotions that can come as well. When someone has experienced a traumatic birth, a miscarriage or still birth, has lost an infant, or experienced a NICU stay, the pain can feel lonely and isolating. I see both individuals and couples who are pregnant, post-partum, or working through a trauma around childbirth to help address and soothe this pain.

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Kristen Genzano (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, NCC

I focus on women’s issues including perinatal mental health. This may include emotional and psychological changes during pregnancy or as you try to conceive. In our work I will take into consideration the many factors—hormones, your environment, social support, family of origin issues— that contribute to your wellbeing.

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Kendyl Watts

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Pregnancy is a time of great excitement and possibility, but it is also physically and emotionally demanding and can be stressful or frightening, particularly for those with a history of trauma. I am passionate about helping individuals* experience all stages of pregnancy from a place of choice and empowerment. (*Not all who are pregnant identify as women; I recognize and affirm all identities.)

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Kelly Sullivan (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

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In my private practice and in my work at a hospital birth center, I have witnessed a wide range of mental health, relationship, and health related issues that people can experience during pregnancy. This awareness informs my work around pregnancy as does the importance of helping people create space and energy for the upcoming labor and delivery and the ensuing adjustment.

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