Perinatal mental health — clinical consulting & expert commentary

The most common complication of childbirth is the one no one is trained to see.

Bloom is the consulting practice of Lisa Tremayne, RN, PMH-C, CBC — the nurse who built New Jersey’s first Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and helped develop the first universal maternal screening program in the country. We train the people who see new parents first, and we explain this illness to the public in plain language.

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Name & lower third

Lisa Tremayne, RN, PMH-C, CBC — Perinatal Mental Health Specialist

One-line intro

Lisa Tremayne is a registered nurse and certified perinatal mental health specialist who founded New Jersey’s first center dedicated to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Full bio

Lisa Tremayne, RN, PMH-C, CBC, is a perinatal mental health specialist and a survivor of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. In 2005 she helped develop New Jersey’s universal screening program for prenatal and postpartum depression, the first in the nation. In 2017 she created and directed New Jersey’s first Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, providing integrated therapy, medication management, and peer support to new and expecting parents. She teaches perinatal mental health to clinicians nationally, has presented at the National Perinatal Association and the NEI Fall Congress, and serves on advisory bodies including the Maternity Care Caucus stakeholder group and PCORI-funded research teams.

Standing quote

“Postpartum psychosis is rare, it is a medical emergency, and it is treatable when someone recognizes it. Almost no one is taught to recognize it. That is the gap that keeps families in danger.”

What she will and won’t speak to.
Lisa speaks to perinatal mental illness generally: what these conditions are, how they present, how they are screened for and treated, and where the standard of care fails. She does not diagnose, assess, or speculate about any individual she has not personally treated, and she does not comment on the facts or the outcome of any active case.

On the record

Talks, training, and press.

Aug 2026 Broadcast Coming Soon Stay tuned for the latest media Continuing to update. Link coming

Nov 2024 Conference NEI Fall Congress Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Presented at the Neuroscience Education Institute’s 20th annual congress at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs — the country’s flagship psychopharmacology meeting for prescribing clinicians. Open → Ongoing Training PESI Women’s Mental Health Specialist Certificate — perinatal faculty One of thirteen faculty on PESI’s 31-hour certificate course for therapists, teaching the section on pregnancy and postpartum: baby blues through postpartum psychosis, screening tools, and how to read the results. Open → Mar 2017 Conference National Perinatal Association Closing presenter, 38th Annual Conference — Atlanta Selected from a national pool to close the NPA’s annual conference on perinatal mental health, presenting Monmouth Medical Center’s model of care. Written up in Neonatology Today’s conference summary. Open → Mar 2017 Press Patch Monmouth Medical Center nurse selected to present at national conference Open →

Appointments & advisory roles

Where the work has been done.

Research teams, federal stakeholder groups, professional training bodies, and one piece of federal legislation.

Opening of the Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Monmouth Medical Center.

PCORI — Comparative Effectiveness of Perinatal Psychiatry Access Programs Member 2020 – Present

Advancing Health Equity Subject matter expert · Monmouth Medical Center 2020 – Present

Maternity Care Caucus Stakeholders, 117th Congress Member 2019 – Present

Postpartum Support International Northeast training expert · Provider certification training 2018 – Present

Sage Therapeutics Advocacy advisory team 2018 – Present

Central Jersey Family Health Consortium Member 2005 – Present

Maternal Mental Health Research Collaborative Patient expert advisor 2016 – 2017

Bringing Postpartum Depression Out of the Shadows Act (H.R. 3235) Lead lobbyist · Maternal Mental Health Coalition 2015

PCORI research team — Maternal Mental Health Research Collaborative Member 2015

Plain language

What these illnesses actually are.

If you got here from trial coverage, this is the part worth reading. These are different conditions with different symptoms, different timelines, and different levels of urgency, and they get collapsed into one word constantly.

1 in 7 birthing parents experience postpartum depression

It is the most common complication of childbirth — more common than gestational diabetes or preeclampsia — and it is the one least likely to be screened for consistently.

1–2 in 1,000 experience postpartum psychosis

A different and far rarer condition than postpartum depression. Onset is usually sudden and within the first weeks after birth. It can involve confusion, agitation, sleeplessness, and beliefs or perceptions that are not real, and it can fluctuate hour to hour. It is a psychiatric emergency and it is treatable.

Under 20% of those with symptoms receive treatment

Stigma is part of it. So is a system where the person most likely to notice — a nurse, a pediatrician, a lactation consultant, a family member — was never taught what to look for or what to do next.

Consulting

How we work with organizations.

Bloom started in 2017 as a training and awareness effort. It now operates as a private consulting practice.

For newsrooms

Expert commentary

Background briefings, on-camera and on-mic interviews, and help getting the clinical language right before you publish. Fast turnaround for breaking coverage.

For health systems

Program design

How to stand up perinatal mental health services inside an existing system: screening workflows, referral pathways, staffing, and the reimbursement questions that stall most programs.

For clinicians & peers

Training

Provider education on recognizing and responding to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and facilitator training for survivors who want to lead peer support groups in their own communities.

Who we are

Two friends since seventh grade, one of them a nurse.

Bloom was drawn up over a few weeks of long walks in 2017 and has been running on the side ever since. It is a full practice now.

NEI Fall Congress, Colorado Springs, 2024.

Lisa Tremayne, RN, PMH-C, CBC

Founder

Lisa is both a survivor and an advocate for improving the standard of care for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She helped develop New Jersey’s first-in-nation universal screening program in 2005, created and directed the state’s first PMAD center in 2017, and has taught perinatal mental health to clinicians through Postpartum Support International, PESI, and the NEI Fall Congress. She advises federal, research, and industry bodies working on perinatal access to care.

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Shannon Hayes

Co-founder

Shannon brings three decades of experience building small businesses and is the CEO of Vitality Ventures Group. She and Lisa have been friends since seventh grade; Bloom started on one of their regular mom walks in 2017. She handles strategy, communications, and booking.

LinkedIn → Vitality Ventures Group →