From Symptoms to Support: A Field Guide to Perinatal Mental Health Webinar
This webinar is open to WA state professionals working with perinatal families in WA state.
Perinatal mental health conditions affect up to 1 in 5 birthing individuals, yet many go unrecognized and undiagnosed. This session offers a practical field guide for identifying symptoms of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. In it, attendees will learn how to differentiate between common/”normal” adjustments, and symptoms/behaviors that warrant further assessment. We will cover best practices when it comes to interventions, and review resources available to birthing individuals and/or their family members if needed. This training will translate clinical frameworks into actionable, real-world response strategies.
Date: Friday, August 21st
Time: 10am-12pm PDT
Location: Zoom
Cost: FREE
Facilitator: Ash Choi, LMHC, PMH-C
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This free webinar is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from the Department of Health.
This webinar does not provide any Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
This webinar will be recorded and available on the Perinatal Support WA webinar page. If you cannot attend in person, you do not need to register. Recording will be uploaded approximately 1 month after the training.
Ash Choi is a Washington State-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and certified perinatal mental health specialist (PMH-C). But the path here was anything but linear.
Before becoming a clinician, I built careers in higher education and technology. Coming to this work as a second act means I carry an uncommon set of lenses: I’ve navigated complex organizational systems, the tech world’s “move fast and break things” ethos, and the perennial tension between work and life. That breadth has given me a richer understanding of the many roles we inhabit simultaneously — and what it costs us to carry them all.
My clinical experience spans community mental health with high-risk youth and families, a partial hospitalization eating disorder program, private practice with children through couples, and three years as a behavioral health provider embedded within Swedish Ballard OB/GYN & Midwifery — a role I returned to four months postpartum, fresh off my own delivery.
That return deepened something already growing in me. Over time, one chapter of human experience kept calling me back: the perinatal period, and everything it quietly demands of the people living through it. My own experiences with pregnancy, labor, delivery, and early parenthood made something unmistakably clear: the standard model of perinatal care misses too much. Common is not the same as ordinary — and treating it as one leaves people navigating some of the most significant terrain of their lives with inadequate maps and insufficient company.
Tether grew from the decision to build something larger than a single therapy practice. Beyond direct care, I consult, speak, and contribute as a subject-matter expert for organizations ranging from schools and local organizations to large health systems and Fortune 500 companies.
I live in Seattle with my wife, our kids, and our pets. I identify as nonbinary, am a birthing parent to our three-year-old, and a stepparent to our thirteen-year-old. We are, simultaneously and enthusiastically, in the thick of toddlerhood and the teen years — which, as it turns out, is its own form of continuing education.
