Postpartum Depression & Women's Mental Health Treatment Programs & Specialists

The following are links to some of the hospitals and clinics in the United States, as well as other countries included at the bottom of this page, that have specialized programs to treat women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders like postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.

How do I decide which programs are listed here? These organizations or individual practices are specifically geared toward women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. They focus on reproductive psychiatry. They are comprehensive programs, offering treatment, hosting support groups and/or conducting research into these illnesses. Their clinicians are specialists. And, I know most of them, which means I trust them enough to list them here. If you think your hospital or university’s program should be included in this list, email me at postpartumprogress@gmail.com.

(Note: This list is in alphabetical order by state. Specialized programs outside of the United States are listed at the bottom. This list does not serve to endorse any particular program.)

UNITED STATES

California: UCLA Women’s Life Center Los Angeles (LA), Lori Altshuler, MD and Vivien Burt, MD; El Camino Hospital Maternal Outreach Mood Services (Mountain View), Kristina Peterson, MFT; The Center for Postpartum Health (Tarzana), Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD; Pec Indman, EdD, MFT (San Jose); UCSD Maternal Mental Health Clinic (San Diego), Katie Hurst, MD, 619-543-6932; Kaiser Permanente San Francisco (SF), Chris Eaton, MD and Kerry Savola-Levin, LCSW, 415-833-2292; UC San Francisco Pregnancy & Postpartum Mood Clinic, Melissa Whippo, LCSW, 415-353-2566

Colorado: Perinatal Mental Health Program at The Children’s Hospital (Denver), Brian Stafford, MD; Perinatal Mood Disorder Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital’s Anschutz Medical Campus, Elizabeth Brass, MD, Cheryl Chessick, MD (Aurora); Kate Kripke, LCSW (Boulder)

Georgia: Emory Women’s Mental Health Program (Atlanta), Jeffrey Newport, MD, Toby Goldsmith, MD

Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago Perinatal Mental Health Project (Chicago); Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Perinatal Depression Support Services (Oak Brook), Dr. Diane Semprevivo; Northwestern University Women’s Behavioral Health Services Program (Chicago), Sonya Rasminsky, MD, Jackie Gollan, PhD; Healthcare Alternative Systems (serving the Latina community), Chicago

Iowa: University of Iowa Women’s Wellness & Counseling Service, Scott Stuart, MD, Robin Kopelman, MD

Kansas: Pregnancy & Postpartum Resource Center of Kansas

Kentucky: University of Louisville Women’s Mental Health Program (Louisville), Dr. Joyce Spurgeon, Sheila Ward CNM

Massachusetts: Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Women’s Mental Health (Boston), Dr. Lee Cohen, Dr. Ruta Nonacs, Dr. Marlene Freeman, Dr. Adele Viguera; Brigham & Women’s Hospital Women’s Mental Health Program (Boston), Laura Miller, MD; University of Massachusetts Medical School Women’s Mental Health Program, Dr. Rebecca Lundquist, Dr. Nancy Byatt, Dr. Kristina Deligiannidis (Worcester)

Maryland: Johns Hopkins Women’s Mood Disorders Center, Baltimore, MD, Jennifer Payne, MD, Patricia Roy, MD, Jennifer Meuchel, MD

Michigan: University of Michigan Perinatal Mood Disorders Team, Ann Arbor, MI, Sheila Marcus, MD, Heather Flynn, MD, Maria Muzik, MD, Juan Lopez, MD, Kate Bullard, LMSW

Minnesota: Hennepin Women’s Mental Health Program, Minneapolis, Helen Kim, MD; for more Minnesota providers, visit http://ppsupportmn.org/

Missouri: Women’s Healthcare Partnership (St. Louis), Diane Sanford, PhD

New Jersey: The Rocking Chair (Englewood), Naomi Greenblatt, MD; Blue Sky Consulting LLC, Susan Stone, MSW; Postpartum Stress Center (Vorhees), Karen Kleiman

New York: Payne Whitney Women’s Program at Weill Cornell, New York, Margaret Altemus, MD; New York University Reproductive Psychiatry, New York, Shari Lusskin, MD; the Women’s Mental Health Consortium, New York, Catherine Birndorff, MD; Columbia University Women’s Program, New York, Eileen Kavanagh, MD; Sparks Center

North Carolina: University of North Carolina Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, Chapel Hill, NC, David Rubinow, MD, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, Elizabeth Bullard, MD, Chris Raines RN; The Prenatal & Postpartum Center of the Carolinas

Ohio: Lindner Center of Hope Women’s Mental Health Program, Mason, OH

Oregon: Cedar Hills Hospital Mother Infant Outpatient Program, Beaverton, OR

Pennsylvania: Women’s Behavioral HealthCARE at the Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Katherine Wisner, MD; Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness, Deborah Kim, MD, C. Neill Epperson, MD; The Postpartum Stress Center, Karen Kleiman, MSW; The Center for Postpartum Depression, Dr. Barbara Lewin, Philadelphia

Rhode Island: Women & Infants Hospital Day Program, Providence, RI, Margaret Howard, PhD, Terri Pearlstein, MD

Tennessee: Dr. Margot Feintuch, Nashville, 615-269-0525

Texas: The Menninger Clinic/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Lucy Puryear, MD; St. Joseph Medical Center Women’s Behavioral Health, Houston, Marketa Wills, MD; UT Southwestern Women’s Mental Health Center, Dallas, Neysa Johnson, MD, Anna Brandon, MD, Geetha Shivakumar, MD;

Washington DC: Georgetown University Women’s Mental Health Program, Dr. Barbara Byers, 202-687-0794

CANADA

Reproductive Mental Health Program at St. Paul’s Hospital and BC Women’s, Vancouver, Shaila Misri, MD

Perinatal Mental Health Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ariel Dalfen, MD