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Growing your Village: A guide for new parents

Grow your Village – A guide for new parents Jessie Everts, PhD LMFT As the African proverb goes, “it takes a village” – not just to raise a child, but to support a new parent. Connection with others and support are so vitally…

How to Advocate for Your Own Mental Health

How to Advocate for Your Own Mental Health By Amy Stuart  Maybe it’s the chilly examination room. Maybe it’s the feeling of bare skin beneath a loosely-fitted, sheer gown or the way the paper blanket crinkles when you shift positions.…

Mom Genes Research

Mom Genes Fight PPD by Amy Stuart This blogpost was written based on a Mom and Mind podcast episode hosted by PSI board member Katayune Kaeni and Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody. Technology has transformed the way we live. We no longer rely…

PSI and Black Lives Matter

This is a pivotal moment for our country and for the cause of perinatal mental health. I have been working hard to find the words to authentically address the emotions that we are all feeling while focusing our concern for black and brown women,…

Trauma, new parenthood, and the pandemic

Trauma, new parenthood, and the pandemic by Lita Simanis “In these challenging times,” “we’re all in this together,” “stay at home.” If no one has given you permission to scream or curse from hearing these phrases, allow me to…

Featured PSI Member: Jane Honikman

Jane Honikman, MS PSI Founder PSI Advisory Council member Author/Coach/Speaker/TrainerI'm thrilled to be able to interview PSI's founder! Let's start by looking back a bit further, before PSI. Your degree was in sociology in 1967. What sparked…
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PSI COVID-19 Resources

We are with you during this time of global pandemic. PSI is strong and ready to help you feel connected, comforted, and able to help you volunteer or provide services for other families. Stay in touch and let us know what you need. Click on…

How to Work From Home: Parents Edition

How to Work From Home: Parents Edition by Melodye Phillips As the reality of the Coronavirus hit America shores, millions of parents were thrust into the difficult role of working from home- with their children out of school, hobbies, sports,…

Friendship for New Mothers

Alexis E. Menken, PhD Clinical Psychologist Montclair, NJ NJ Coordinator/Advisory Council Postpartum Support International They say it takes a village to raise a child, but it also takes a village to truly nurture and sustain a new mother. …

Featured PSI Member: Sara Rashid, MA, LCPC

Psychotherapist and Founder, Frame & Shoelace Psychotherapy Tell us a little about yourself outside of your work.I live in Chicago, IL with my husband and two children (ages five and three). In my time away from work, I try to follow…

No Parent Alone

Help build the #noparentalone movement with us! Post a photo of yourself, you and your kids, your family or anyone you love and add the hashtag #NoParentAlone, #NoMomAlone, #NoDadAlone and the helpline phone number: 1-800-944-4773. Let your…