While mental health during the perinatal period has historically received far too little attention in both research and public discourse, awareness has begun to grow in recent decades. The Lindsay Clancy case has brought much-needed attention to perinatal mental health, but it is a tragedy that it took such an extreme and devastating situation to bring the issue into the broader cultural conversation. Postpartum mental health encompasses far more than its most severe presentations. Anxiety,...

Learn about the 4 main tenets of EMDR therapy to understand how trauma therapy works.

With endless therapies to choose from, I discuss why I trained in EMDR.