Training

The person most likely to notice was never taught what to look for.

A nurse, a pediatrician, a lactation consultant, a front desk coordinator, a partner. Training the people who see new parents first is the cheapest intervention in perinatal mental health and the one most often skipped.

Included

Provider education

Recognizing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders — what they are, how they present, how they differ
Postpartum psychosis: onset, presentation, why it is missed, and what to do in the first two hours
Screening tools and what the scores actually mean
Talking to a patient about a positive screen without losing her
Medication questions in pregnancy and lactation — where to get a real answer
Documentation and handoff

Included

Peer support facilitator training

For survivors who want to lead groups in their own communities
Group structure, boundaries, and what a facilitator is not responsible for
Recognizing when a group member needs clinical care, and how to move her there
Supervision and support for the facilitators themselves

Formats

In person or remote. A single session for a practice, a half day for a department, or a repeating series built into onboarding. Training is also included in the Respond and Build engagements — this page is for organizations that want the training and nothing else.

On the record

Talks, training, and press.

Aug 2026 Podcast Defense Diaries Postpartum psychosis: what the diagnosis actually involves Second appearance with Bob Motta and Ali Vega, walking through how postpartum psychosis presents clinically, how it differs from postpartum depression, and why it is so often missed. Open → Aug 2026 Podcast Defense Diaries Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders — clinical background Invited to give the clinical context behind a case where postpartum psychosis is central to the defense. Open → Interview Broadcast NJ Spotlight News Treating perinatal mental health challenges On the state of perinatal mental health care in New Jersey and what a dedicated center makes possible. Open → 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 →

Next step

Book a session.

Tell us who is in the room and how long you have, and we will tell you what fits.

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