Clinical Consultation: for Black Mental Health Clinicians

Open to providers in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties.

The fourth Thursday of the month June-December from 5:00pm-6:00pm  starting July 22nd at 5:00pm-6:00pm. (7/22, 8/26, 9/23, 10/28, 11/18*, 12/16*) * means 3rd Thursday because of holiday. Registration is still open!

This group welcomes Black clinicians who are interested in serving childbearing families in a culturally-relevant way. We will provide support to approach perinatal mental health work with cultural humility and sensitivity with attention and emphasis to the intersections of race/class/gender/sexual orientation/ability/parenting experience. 

Qualifications for attending: 

• You are a Black clinician providing mental health services IN King, Pierce or Snohomish County.
• You serve Medicaid eligible clients, have sliding-scale or low-cost options 
• And have taken one of the listed (or an equivalent perinatal Mental Health 2-day training) in the last 1-2 years
  • Promoting Parental Resilience (PS-WA)
  • 2-Day Practices and Best Practices in Prevention, Identification and Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders – 2 day Training (PS-WA)
  • PSI’s 2 Day PMAD training
  • 2020 Mom-Perinatal Mental Health Training

About the Clinical Consultation Groups:

• Consultations will meet once a month for six months 60-90 minute sessions via Zoom from June-December.
• Consultation is provided free of cost to providers.
• Sessions will be a small group of clinicians all who attended a comprehensive two-day PMAD training that are seeing perinatal clients, roughly 6-12 providers.
• It will be a group consultation for case presentations and feedback from a perinatal mental health expert (from our PS-WA training team). There will be direct opportunities to share and get feedback from the facilitator as well as learn through others case presentations.
• All consultations will use an intersectional and anti-oppressive lens in working with childbearing people. 
• Consultations will be led by Perinatal Mental Health Specialists from each of the identified provider communities.  

*Consultation does not meet requirements for clinical supervision.  

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Questions regarding this training, please email training@perinatalsupport.org

Meet the facilitator, Natasha: Natasha Is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 13 years of experience working with children and families. Natasha enjoys working with women during their pregnancy journey and postpartum adjustment period. Natasha’s specialty is pregnancy and postpartum anxiety.  She uses a variety of integrative therapy approaches including strength-based approach, mindfulness, solution focused, attachment-parenting theory and cognitive behavioral theory (CBT).