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November 4-6 2026 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Become a Speaker at The Perinatal Mental Health Conference
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Don't miss your chance to inspire and educate others while expanding your professional network.
If you are passionate about advancing perinatal mental wellness and have valuable expertise to share, we invite you to apply to be a speaker.
This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your work, connect with other professionals in the field, and contribute to the ongoing dialogue about the best practices and innovative approaches in perinatal care.
and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
We are gathering the leading educators and experts in perinatal mental health to share their insights and knowledge
- Contribute to advancing perinatal mental health knowledge.
- Showcase expertise and gain visibility as a thought leader in the field.
- Expand professional networks and connect with other perinatal providers.
- Share innovative research, therapies, and best practices with an audience passionate about improving perinatal mental wellness.
- Contribute to inclusive discussions addressing diverse population needs.
- Opportunity to grow your own community with exposure to large social media audiences through conference promotion.
The Benefits Of Speaking At This Event
How You Can Participate
THE TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
MINI SESSIONS
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- Racial Trauma and Its Impact on Perinatal Mental Health
- Inclusive Perinatal Care: Best Practices for Supporting LGBTQ+ Families
- Balancing Act: Understanding Vicarious Trauma and Cultivating Vicarious Resilience in Perinatal Care
- Inclusive Assessment Practices: Ensuring Equity in Perinatal Mental Health Screening
- Mom Guilt and the Social Media Trap: Navigating Expectations in the Digital Age
- Forgotten Fathers: Addressing Men's Mental Health in the Perinatal Period
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Recognizing and Treating Perinatal OCD
presentation examples:
Seminars are similar to traditional conference presentations, where the speaker delves into a specific content area relating to perinatal mental health.
These presentations will be pre-recorded, and released to attendees based on the conference schedule. This format is ideal for revealing new research, teaching about supporting a particular population, discussing therapeutic interventions, or presenting innovative insights into critical areas of mental health.
Speakers should prepare to provide in-depth, comprehensive coverage of their topic, offering valuable knowledge and practical applications for attendees.
Seminars:
Live sessions
Mini Sessions
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LIVE SESSIONS
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- Mom Rage in the Room: A Single-Session Assessment and Intervention Map
- When a Client Confesses an Intrusive Thought: Exactly What to Say
- Hypervigilance or Good Parenting? Helping Clients Find the Line
- "I Should Be Enjoying This": Working with the Gap Between Expected and Actual Motherhood
- The C-Section She Didn't Want: Grief, Trauma, and the Delivery Nobody Debriefs
- He Watched Everything Go Wrong: Paternal Trauma After Emergency Delivery
- Matrescence Is Not a Trend: What Identity Disruption in New Mothers Actually Looks Like Clinically
- The Formula Decision: Shame, Judgment, and What Follows Clients into Therapy
- "I Don't Want Medication While Breastfeeding": A Clinical Framework for a Common Conversation
presentation examples:
Mini Sessions are pre-recorded presentations built around a single, hyper-focused clinical idea. Not an entire topic, just one specific moment, tension, or nuance that rarely gets its own space on a conference agenda. Think of it less like a short lecture and more like a well-developed thought or skills you've been wanting to give airtime to. The most powerful Mini Sessions zoom in on one clinical moment, a specific population, or one assumption. and say something precise and tangible about it in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.
Speakers should resist the urge to provide broad context or cover the full landscape of a topic. Trust that your audience is experienced and informed. Get straight to the one thing you want them to walk away thinking about: a reframe, a tool, a question, a clinical moment they'll recognize immediately.
Mini Sessions
MINI SESSIONS
Live SESSIONS
Mini Sessions
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- Screening Beyond the EPDS: Expanding Your Perinatal Mental Health Assessment Toolkit
- Perinatal Anxiety Disorders: Beyond "Just Worry": Practicing ERP in the Perinatal Period
- The Part That Says You're Failing: An IFS Approach to Mom Guilt, Self-Doubt, and Childhood Wounds
- Supporting Families Through NICU Experiences: Tools You Can Use Today
- Clinical Skills for Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Termination: Practicing the Hard Conversations
- Preventing Burnout: Practical Strategies for Sustainable Perinatal Practice
- Somatic Approaches to Birth Trauma and Recovery
- Narrative Therapy and the Loss of the Expected Self
- Gottman-Informed Couples Support in the Perinatal Period
- Motivational Interviewing in the Perinatal Period: Getting Clients Unstuck
- Safety Planning with Perinatal Clients: A Practical Framework for High-Risk Presentations
- From Surviving to Meaning: Posttraumatic Growth Frameworks for Perinatal Loss
workshop ideas:
Live Sessions focus on specific clinical topics, populations, and interventions relevant to perinatal mental health practice. Each session is led by an experienced clinician or specialist and structured to offer more than information alone. Attendees should expect to engage, respond, and participate, not just listen.
While some Live Sessions may include didactic content or structured teaching, all sessions must incorporate meaningful interactive components that give attendees the opportunity to apply, practice, or reflect on what they are learning in real time. Attendees should leave each Live Session with at least one concrete skill, tool, or framework they can bring directly into their work with perinatal clients.
Live Sessions
live sessions
Live SESSIONS
Mini Sessions
SEMINARS
- The Seminar and Mini Session presentations will be pre-recorded and released according to the conference schedule. This allows you the flexibility to create and record your presentation when it’s convenient for you. Deadlines for presentation submission is October 2nd.
- All presentations are required to have a visual component. We will provide a simple Canva template as an option for you to use as a starting point, and you may add your own personality, visuals, and branding.
- After you submit your presentation to us and it’s approved, you’re work is done! (unless you’re presenting a live workshop).
- Speakers are not obliged to promote the event, but we hope that you’re genuinely excited to tell your community about your work!. If you’d like to share, we will provide graphics and info-blurbs to make that easy.
- We will ask you to provide a short bio and headshot to use on our website and for promotion.
Our goal is to make participation in this conference easy, enjoyable, and impactful.
what's involved?
We deeply value the time, insight, and lived experiences that our speakers bring to the Perinatal Mental Health Conference. We are committed to compensating presenters for their contributions, and we’ve allocated a set speaker budget to reflect that value.
Compensation is determined by session type and also guided by our broader commitment to showcasing a wide range of voices and lived experiences—including those that are often underrepresented in mainstream perinatal care.
We recognize that speaker fees vary, and you’ll have the opportunity to indicate your typical speaking rate in the application. While our budget may not allow us to meet all requests in full, we approach compensation with transparency and care.
Speaker Compensation
ALL SPEAKERS WILL BE COMPENSATED
Ready to Apply?
If you are passionate about advancing perinatal mental wellness and have valuable expertise to share, we invite you to apply to be a speaker.
We anticipate a large number of applicants for this conference. Please know that we will carefully review each application and be in touch soon if you are selected to participate. Thank you so much for your interest, and don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.
We will be accepting general speaker applications for pre-recorded sessions until Friday July 24th 2026. Melissa and Kate will wait to review applications until after the deadline. Candidates will begin to be notified about the outcome of their application the week of July 27th, and continuing into August. We appreciate your patience!