This episode is a COVID-19 informed overview of maternal mental health issues and not only explores the signs to watch our for, but offers at home self care techniques that birthing people and their loved ones can implement. Maternal mental health matters and it takes a village to raise a mother.

If you suspect you're struggling with a maternal mental health issue please visit PSI to find support: https://www.postpartum.net/

About Danielle:
Dr. Danielle Jenkins, PsyD is a psychologist in Olympia and University Place, Washington, serving the South Puget Sound. She was awarded a Doctorate in Psychology from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon in 2012. As part of her education, she participated in several years of training at Oregon Health Sciences University and completed an American Psychological Association accredited internship at Cherokee Health Systems in Knoxville, Tennessee. Dr. Jenkins is passionate about providing high quality mental health services across the age continuum and offers a holistic, integrated approach to mental health care for individuals and families.

In her work with individuals and families, Dr. Jenkins employs interpersonal and cognitive behavioral counseling techniques. She enjoys helping those who struggle with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, family and relational conflicts, parenting stress, grief and loss, and maternal mental health issues. Using her experience in primary care psychology, she is skilled in helping clients manage the mental health aspects of chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, insomnia, and chronic pain.

Dr. Jenkins sees adults with a wide range of concerns and has specialized expertise in Maternal Mental Health Treatment (focusing on dealing with issues related to infertility, pregnancy and newborn loss, and prenatal and postpartum anxiety and depression). Borrowing from her experience working in parent-child interactive preschools, as a postpartum doula, and as a nanny, she also offers therapy focusing on supporting families. A major aspect of Dr. Jenkins’ practice involves helping parents develop positive and practical parenting tools, educating parents about how to support their children with attention or behavior problems, and assisting families in navigating through challenging transitions.

Free E-Book Danielle mentions in the episode: https://www.mamathrivevillage.com/eBook%20Freebie
Find Danielle: http://daniellejenkinspsyd.com/
Mama Thrive Village: https://www.mamathrivevillage.com/

Your Host: Haley Neidich, LCSW - Licensed Psychotherapist & Motherhood Coach

*We Can Get Through This Together!*

Join Haley as she interviews Amy Lewis about the current state of childbirth in the US during the coronavirus. Amy shares about the benefits of having a doula during this time and the creative ways that doulas are helping birthing women while some hospitals are cutting back on support people for birthing women.

Learn more about Amy's work:
https://buddhabellybirth.com

AMY'S FULL BIO:

AMY LEWIS, CLC, CLD, CPPS, CPID

Amy is the co-owner of Buddha Belly. She is passionate about assisting women through life's most challenging transitions and nurtures a lifelong commitment to women in serving mothers as a doula.

She is certified by ProDoula as a labor doula, postpartum and infant care doula and postpartum specialist. She was certified by the Healthy Children Project and the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice as a lactation counselor and is a birth, newborn and breastfeeding educator.

She is thrilled to welcome clients of all backgrounds to the agency, regardless of religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or cultural background.

In five years as a doula, she has supported hundreds of families in labor and birth in hospitals and birth centers and in their homes. She is privileged to help new and growing families recover in the hospital and at home after the arrival of their newest members. She has partictular experience working with families of multiples, VBACs and cesarean births, and high-risk pregnancies and births.

Amy began her professional career in another role supporting people: human resources. She spent 15 years in talent acquisition and management, including seven years as an executive practice leader in start up think tank and professional membership association. She is proud to apply her extensive business expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to Buddha Belly. Now she is honored to bring this professionalism along with her birth and postpartum work to the Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative, a vision of the University of South Florida, as a Doula-Consultant, facilitating Labor Support Skills workshops for hospital-based maternity care providers around our great state of Florida.

She is committed to providing compassionate, calm and balanced care for all families. She has facilitated groups for mothers and parents on postpartum support, babywearing, breastfeeding support and peaceful parenting. She and her husband Bradley are the proud parents of three little girls.

Enjoy the episode!

All my best,

Haley

Haley Neidich, LCSW
www.haleyneidich.com
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