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Maternal Mental Health and Cultural Humility: A Call to Action

Katayune Kaeni, Psy.D., is a psychologist specializing perinatal mental health and the creator and host of the Mom & Mind Podcast. Dr. Kat has a private practice where she focuses on supporting new mothers and families. She volunteers with Postpartum Support International and works with San Bernardino Co.’s Maternal Mental Health workgroup as a subject matter expert to provide training to local mental health and allied healthcare providers.

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Helping Parents Heal from Perinatal Loss: Miscarriage and Stillbirth

The Savvy Shrink podcast is honored to have Laura Navarro Pickens, LCSW as our guest today. Laura brings with her decades of clinical practice helping families in the aftermath of perinatal loss, including stillbirth and miscarriage, as well as birth trauma, infertility, and postpartum adjustment. Today’s podcast focuses on how parents can heal psychologically when the absolute worst nightmare occurs, and they lose a pregnancy or a beloved infant . Listen in as Laura shares her expertise in knowing how to support families with this very specific form of traumatic loss. 

Currently, Laura provides consultation services to the Kendall Lauren Honig Pregnancy & Infant Loss Program at Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, where I also facilitate their weekly Perinatal Loss Support Group.  

She is a psychotherapist for Orange County Community Services Programs, Inc (CSP) – Victim Services.  I also facilitate a weekly Parent Support Group for parents whose children have been victimized by crime.  

Laura feels it is important to stay connected to the international and research community in my fields of practice.  She is a member of several organizations, including:

– National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

– Postpartum Support International (PSI)

– National Association of Perinatal Social Workers (NAPSW)

– Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA)

 

 

 

Women’s Reproductive Mental Health: Supporting Emotional Well-Being

The Savvy Shrink podcast interviews Dr. Carly Snyder, MD, NYC-based women’s reproductive psychiatrist, on emotional wellbeing during the childbearing year and across the lifespan. Dr. Snyder addresses stigma-busting and compelling information that will help listeners to learn more about the number one complication of childbirth, perinatal depression/anxiety. She also addresses mental health during fertility challenges, pregnancy, postpartum, birth trauma and perimenopause.

Her weekly radio show, MD for Moms, can be heard Wednesdays at 1pm ET on the BBM Global Network and TuneIn radio, or anytime on BBMglobalnetwork.com/MD-for-moms. Dr. Snyder’s HuffPost parenting blog shares the MD for Moms moniker.

Dr. Snyder is the Director of Women’s Health for Family Health Associates.

www.carlysnydermd.com

 

 

Women's Reproductive Mental Health: Supporting Emotional Well-Being

The Savvy Shrink podcast interviews Dr. Carly Snyder, MD, NYC-based women’s reproductive psychiatrist, on emotional wellbeing during the childbearing year and across the lifespan. Dr. Snyder addresses stigma-busting and compelling information that will help listeners to learn more about the number one complication of childbirth, perinatal depression/anxiety. She also addresses mental health during fertility challenges, pregnancy, postpartum, birth trauma and perimenopause.

Her weekly radio show, MD for Moms, can be heard Wednesdays at 1pm ET on the BBM Global Network and TuneIn radio, or anytime on BBMglobalnetwork.com/MD-for-moms. Dr. Snyder’s HuffPost parenting blog shares the MD for Moms moniker.

Dr. Snyder is the Director of Women’s Health for Family Health Associates.

www.carlysnydermd.com

 

 

Sensory Processing Disorder: It’s More Common than You Think

SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) impacts approximately 1 in 6 children, which results in difficulty with self-regulation, academics, and social relationships. SPD is often misdiagnosed or overlooked as a valid concern impacting the functioning of young children. A neurobiological condition, SPD is not bad parenting. Parents of children with SPD need and deserve support and resources.

childNOW.org

spdstar.org

sensoryplanet.com

 

 

Sensory Processing Disorder: It's More Common than You Think

SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) impacts approximately 1 in 6 children, which results in difficulty with self-regulation, academics, and social relationships. SPD is often misdiagnosed or overlooked as a valid concern impacting the functioning of young children. A neurobiological condition, SPD is not bad parenting. Parents of children with SPD need and deserve support and resources.

childNOW.org

spdstar.org

sensoryplanet.com

 

 

Managing Holiday Stress for Survivors of Trauma

Carolyn Reinach Wolf is an Executive Partner in the law firm of Abrams Fensterman and Director of the firm’s Mental Health Law practice. She specializes in guiding families through the complex landscape of legal issues that impact loved ones with serious mental illness and/or substance abuse. Ms. Wolf serves as a frequent source for media covering issues of mental illness, and was the subject of a 2013 The New York Times profile, “A Guide in the Darkness.”  Acclaimed NYC-based mental health attorney Carolyn Wolf has published a Huffington Post article about holiday season support needed by shooting survivors and others in crisis, and how their families can best help. We thought you’d be interested in having Ms. Wolf join on air to discuss this important topic sometime during the holiday season.

Co-Parenting with a Narcissistic Spouse: How To Deal With Parental Alienation

Sharie Stines, PsyD, The Recovery Expert, joins The Savvy Shrink to discuss the challenges of co-parenting with a narcissistic (ex) spouse. She addresses how the non-narcissistic parent can avoid parental alienation and how survivors can raise their children to safely protect them from emotional abuse. Her books are available on Amazon here. 

www.therecoveryexpert.com

 

 

 

 

 

Psychopathy Awareness with Claudia Moscovici

Claudia Moscovici, founder of Psychopathy Awareness Blog (psychopathyawareness.wordpress.com) joins Andrea Schneider, LCSW today to discuss the prevalence of psychopathy and the covert nature of this form of psychological abuse. She shares with listeners her expertise on how the public can be informed and protected from psychopathic (and narcissistic) abuse.

Moscovici was born in Bucharest, Romania. At the age of 12, she immigrated with her family to the United States where she has gone on to obtain a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Moscovici taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston University and at the University of Michigan. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she writes from her experience of life in a totalitarian regime, which marked her deeply.

In 2002, she co-founded with Mexican sculptor Leonardo Pereznieto the international aesthetic movement called “Postromanticism”,[2] devoted to celebrating beauty, passion and sensuality in contemporary art. She wrote a book on Romanticism and its postromantic survival called Romanticism and Postromanticism, (Lexington Books, 2007) and taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston University and at the University of Michigan. Most recently, she published a nonfiction book on psychopathic seduction, called Dangerous Liaisons (Hamilton Books, 2011) and a psychological thriller called The Seducer (forthcoming in March, 2012), which tells the story of a woman lured by a dangerous psychopathic predator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Moscovici

Cognitive Dissonance, Trauma Bonds, Healing for Survivors of Psychological Abuse

Andrea Schneider, MSW, LCSW, psychotherapist and author of Soul Vampires: Reclaiming Your LifeBlood After Narcissistic Abuse, talks about the concept of cognitive dissonance in the aftermath of healing from narcissistic abuse, in addition to clinical interventions  that are evidence-based, trauma-informed, and strengths-focused for survivors. She draws upon her ebook for discussion. A second edition of the book is in the works with more elaboration on clinical interventions.  

Narcissistic abuse has become a hot buzzword, in part because of recent political events which have made the word “narcissist” common vernacular. No one is immune from the talons of a malignant narcissist, and Andrea discusses how targets of abusers are often highly intelligent, empathic, self-sufficient and successful individuals. Narcissists can sink their talons into unsuspecting people in love, work, family or friend relationships. It’s never the survivor’s fault they were harmed. The good news is that survivors can heal and move on into a new chapter of reclaiming their wellness. Andrea talks about those steps in this podcast.

www.thesavvyshrink.com

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