over 55+ educators and experts in perinatal mental health
2026 Conference Schedule
9-9:30 AM PT
DAY 3 | nov 6
DAY 2 | nov 5
DAY 1 | nov 4
Live Sessions | November 4th
Indigenous Land Acknowledgment and Opening Address: The Current State of Perinatal Mental Health Support, and a Call To Providers
KATE BORSATO + MELISSA MEDJUCK
Seminars, Interviews + Mini Sessions | Nov 4th
9:45 AM PT
INTERVIEW - We Need to Talk About Dads: Fathers and Perinatal Mental Health
Dr. Sheehan Fisher
11:00 AM PT
PRESENTATION - Postpartum Psychosis: Recognition, Response, and the Gaps in Perinatal Care
Dr. julia riddle
1:00 PM PT
PRESENTATION - Breaking Generational Cycles in the Perinatal Period: A Generational Trauma Therapy (GTT)® Approach
Dr. Mariel Buqué
2:15 PM PT
PRESENTATION - Accidental Traditionalism: A Clinical Framework for Naming Role Drift and Mental Load in Perinatal Care
autumn fowler
*Held live on Zoom and will be available for replay. Each session is approximately 60 minutes, unless otherwise noted.
SEMINAR - Taming the Intrusion: Assessment and Interventions for Perinatal OCD
Katrina Lindauer
SEMINAR - The Milk & Mood Connection: Differentiating D-MER From Perinatal Mental Health Disorders
Ashley Hanna-Morgan
SEMINAR - Common Challenges in LGBTQ+ Family Formation and What People Actually Need for Support
Marea Goodman
SEMINAR - Shifting the Perinatal Mental Health Paradigm: Matrescence, Dad Brain, and Family-Centered Care
Matthew Braman
SEMINAR - Held in the Uncertainty: Supporting Clients Through Infertility
tasha page
MINI SESSION - The Pressure to Relate: Childfree Clinicians in Perinatal Care
Lisa Hazlett
SEMINAR - “I Should Be Able to Handle This”: Treating Anxiety, Burnout, and Self-Doubt in High-Achieving Perinatal Clients
Dr. Lauren Chase
SEMINAR - Perinatal Substance Use: An Ethical Framework for Clinical Practice
Dr. Tia Niedjalski
MINI SESSION - Holding It All: An IFS-Informed Approach to Supporting the Many Parts of Pregnancy Loss
Ella Moynihan
MINI SESSION - Your Body, Their Rules: Understanding Reproductive Coercion
Kimery Cockrell
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These are added to your conference portal each day. These are available for 24 hours with the Daily Pass, and for 6 months with the Extended Access Pass. Seminars and interviews are approximately 45-60 minutes long; Mini-sessions are approximately 20 minutes long.
MINI SESSION - ‘Motherless Mothers: The Grief Your Screening Tool Won’t Catch
Erica Rose Cummings
DAY 1 | Nov 4
DAY 2 | nov 5
DAY 3 | nov 6
3:30 PM PT
PRESENTATION - Holding the Birth Giver: Differentiating and Treating Perinatal PTSD from PMADs Through Bottom-Up Somatic Safety, Attachment, EMDR, and Somatic Experiencing
Sarah Donovan + Nina Davey
SEMINAR - From Pregnancy Tests to Perimenopause: The Lifelong Mental Health Journey of Motherhood
Jennifer Rivera
SEMINAR - The Mental Health Cost of Sleep Culture: How Child Sleep Expectations Shape Parental Anxiety, Guilt, and Distress
Rachael Shepard-Ohta
MINI SESSION -When Body Image Wounds Meet Pregnancy and Motherhood: Using EMDR to Heal Both Now and Then
Lisa Greenstein
MINI SESSION - Pleasure, Safety and the Nervous System: A Missing Piece of Perinatal Wellbeing
Juliet Aujla-Fieldt
9 AM PT
Live Sessions | November 5th
INTERVIEW - A Discussion About Mom Rage, Modern Motherhood, and What Mothers’ Anger Is Trying to Tell Us
Minna dubin
Seminars, Interviews + Mini Sessions | Nov 5th
10:15 AM PT
PRESENTATION - Good Patients in Unsafe Systems: Reproductive Trauma in Queer Families
Olivia Scobie
11:30 AM PT
PRESENTATION - Reauthoring the Story: Beyond “Just Set Boundaries” in South Asian Perinatal Mental Health
Melissa Kaur Hanson
1:30 PM PT
PRESENTATION - Understanding Autism In Motherhood: Masking, Late Identification, and Neurodiversity-Affirming Support
natalie brunswick
SEMINAR - From NICU to Now: Understanding NICU Trauma and Supporting Families After Discharge
Jodi Klaristenfeld
MINI SESSION - When Therapy Isn’t for Us: A Cultural Framework for One-Sided Couples Work in the Perinatal Period
Nada Hussein
SEMINAR - “I Hate My Husband / I Don’t Recognize My Wife”: Two Sides of the Perinatal Period
SAM WELSH
SEMINAR - Rewind Therapy for Birth Trauma: A Practical Introduction for Perinatal Providers
Cree Lambeck
SEMINAR - Demystifying Perinatal Psychiatry: Medications, Referrals, and Collaborative Care
Dr. Jasmine Stephens
SEMINAR - Unlearning Weight Stigma: A Reproductive Justice Lens on Perinatal Mental Health
Kristin Reinhart
SEMINAR - Rooted in Traditions: Harm Reduction Through the Cultural Lens of Indigenous Doula Care
Tagwanibisan Armitage-Smith
SEMINAR - Making Connections, Breaking Cycles: The Role of Implicit Memory in Parenting After Past Trauma
Keli Bellaire
SEMINAR - The Perinatal Trauma We Don’t Talk About: Parenting Through Diagnosis, Disability, and Medical Complexity
Casey Mouton
MINI SESSION - “Should I Bring a Child Into This World?” Reproductive Decision-Making in Uncertain Times
Ruth Skutezky + Alexandra Stewart
DAY 1 | nov 5
DAY 2 | nov 6
DAY 3 | nov 7
*Held live on Zoom and will be available for replay. Each session is approximately 60 minutes, unless otherwise noted.
These are added to your conference portal each day. These are available for 24 hours with the Daily Pass, and for 6 months with the Extended Access Pass. Seminars and interviews are approximately 45-60 minutes long; Mini-sessions are approximately 20 minutes long.
MINI SESSION - Beyond the Scroll: Practical Tools for Assessing Digital Wellness in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Alyssa trittler, Vanessa Spinarsky, Carrie Parker
DAY 1 | Nov 4
DAY 2 | nov 5
DAY 3 | nov 6
DAY 3 | nov 6
DAY 2 | nov 5
DAY 1 | nov 4
MINI SESSION - Healing While Parenting: Reparenting Ourselves While Raising Black Daughters
Adrianna Taylor
2:45 PM PT
INTERVIEW - People-Pleasing in Motherhood
hailey magee
MINI SESSION - Our Story Begins: Supporting Parents in Processing a Prenatal Diagnosis
Sarah Coppenrath
MINI SESSION - Reclaiming Eros After Birth
ASHLEY MARIANI
12:45 am-1:15pm PT
LUNCH WITH LIBBY -
Telling the Truth About Motherhood
LIBBY WARD
9 AM PT
DAY 3 | nov 6
DAY 2 | nov 5
DAY 1 | nov 4
Live Sessions | November 6th
PRESENTATION - Disability Affirmative Care in the Perinatal Period
Gabriella Carafa
Seminars, Interviews + Mini Sessions | Nov 6th
10:15 am PT
PRESENTATION - Postpartum Sexual Health: Addressing Desire, Pain, Avoidance, and Relational Disconnection
Emily Rose Heard
11:30 AM PT
SEMINAR - Bipolar Disorder in the Perinatal Period
Caitlin Hasser
These are added to your conference portal each day. These are available for 24 hours with the Daily Pass, and for 6 months with the Extended Access Pass. Seminars and interviews are approximately 45-60 minutes long; Mini-sessions are approximately 20 minutes long.
PRESENTATION -The Burden of Knowing Better: Perfectionism, Professional Identity, and Returning to Perinatal Clinical Work
Dr. Katherine Kovachik
SEMINAR - Going Beyond the Checklist: What the EPDS Misses and How to Catch It
Kara Kushnir
SEMINAR - Why “Self-Care, Mama!” Isn’t Working: Moving Beyond Individual Coping to Address Maternal Burnout and the Mental Load
Stacy McCann
SEMINAR - When Feelings Need Somewhere to Go: Supporting Emotional Expression in the Perinatal Period
Briar Culbert
SEMINAR - What We Carry While We Care
Alison Chisholm
SEMINAR -Beyond the Bounce Back: A Compassionate, Skills-Based Approach to Postpartum Body Image
KELLY ARCHER
SEMINAR - Holding High Acuity in Rural Care: Perinatal Decision-Making When Geography and Resources Shape Care
Avril Ferguson
SEMINAR - Together in the NICU: Supporting Individuals and Couples During Their Stay in the NICU
Sandon Fraser
MINI SESSION - ADHD in Women Through Life Transitions: Supporting Identity, Capacity
Victoria Gray
MINI SESSION - Beyond Maternity Leave: The Identity Shift No One Prepares You For
Nikita Fernandes
MINI SESSION - “Who Am I Now?” A Four-Step Response for the Identity Shift of Matrescence
Cayley Benjamin
MINI SESSION - I Thought I’d Finally Feel Okay: When Postpartum After Infertility Doesn’t Deliver the Relief Clients Expected
Dr. Marisa Perera
MINI SESSION - Hope and Heartache: Holding Families Through Antepartum and Prenatal Hospital Admissions
Celeste Poe
MINI SESSION - Shifting Power Dynamics in Surrogacy Relationships
Laura Reisman
DAY 1 | Nov 4
DAY 2 | nov 5
DAY 3 | nov 6
*Held live on Zoom and will be available for replay. Each session is approximately 60 minutes, unless otherwise noted.
1:30 PM PT
PRESENTATION - Supporting Fathers in the Perinatal Period: Trauma, Masculinity, and Mental Health
Dr. Hudson Jones
2:45 PM PT
PRESENTATION - The Business of Perinatal Therapy: Strategies for a Consistent Caseload, Balanced Weeks, and Long-Term Fulfillment in Your Private Practice
Kate Borsato + Melissa Medjuck
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