Who we are

Bloom is a small, specific team — not a department.

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, built by the people who have actually done this work — not people who read about it.

Same people, new structure

Bloom started in 2017 as The Bloom Foundation, a nonprofit. When Lisa and Shannon got pulled into their own growing businesses, it became more of an awareness effort — talks, media, and training, done alongside everything else, never for a fee.

In the last couple of years, the volume of requests from health systems and practices outgrew what a side project could hold, so Bloom is now a for-profit consulting practice with a team of four. If you remember the earlier nonprofit or its logo, this is the same work and the same people — just finally built to keep up with the calls, now that we’re answering them.

Where it started

Lisa’s story

Her own pregnancy, her years as a labor and delivery nurse, and the moms she kept seeing who had nowhere to go — the reasons she built the PMAD Center, and eventually Bloom.

Lisa Tremayne on building the PMAD Center

Shannon and Lisa at a conference in Portland.

From the nonprofit years

Support we ran for families

Before Bloom became a consulting practice, it ran free live support for moms and families. These sessions have ended. If you need support now, the resources at the bottom of this page are there any time.

Virtual perinatal support group — a weekly drop-in for women who had given birth in the past year and were dealing with anxiety, depression, OCD, or other adjustment disorders.
NICU Moms — a weekly drop-in for mothers with a baby in the NICU, or who had one there in the past twelve months.
Bloom Chat Live — free live sessions for moms and families.

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, then created and directed the state’s first PMAD center — a program that now sees roughly 340 patients a month with a staff of eighteen. She has taught perinatal mental health to clinicians through Postpartum Support International, PESI, and the NEI Fall Congress, and advises federal, research, and industry bodies working on perinatal access to care.

LinkedIn → Facebook →

Shannon Hayes

Co-founder · Managing Director

Shannon runs everything at Bloom that isn’t clinical. She is the first call on every inquiry, program or press, and stays with it to the finish: scoping, discovery, and the operational build of each program, from staffing models and payer mapping to referral pathways, measurement, and launch. Lisa makes every clinical call; Shannon makes sure the program around it gets built and keeps running. She has been part of this work since the center opened, listening to mothers, providers, and administrators describe where the system breaks down. She is also CEO of Vitality Ventures Group, with three decades of experience building small businesses. She and Lisa have been friends since seventh grade; Bloom started on one of their mom walks in 2017.

LinkedIn → Vitality Ventures Group →

Stacy Albanir

Compliance & Quality Assurance

Stacy’s background is in clinical research for medications — data analysis, audits, and the discipline of proving a process actually does what it claims to do. At Bloom she is the one who makes sure the rules are being followed: that protocols hold up under review, that outcome data is tracked correctly, and that a program stays defensible as it scales.

Judy Bourne

Administration & Program Planning

Judy keeps Bloom’s operations and calendar running — administration, scheduling, and the planning behind trainings, events, and everything else that has to happen on time for a program to actually launch.

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 Lead lobbyist · Maternal Mental Health Coalition 2015

Washington, D.C., for National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health Hill Day.

Recognition

Next step

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