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Health Care Providers Who Self-Identify as Treating Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders


Compiled by Postpartum Support International of Washington

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The following care providers have demonstrated special interest and knowledge in serving and treating women experiencing Postpartum Mood Disorders. Because Postpartum Support International of Washington cannot recommend any specific providers, treatments, or interventions, we suggest you call the provider and discuss your exact needs and concerns.

Please note that this list has been divided into various sections according to type of provider. Section One contains information on Professional Therapists and other Medical Providers who treat Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders through therapy and/or psychotropic medications. Section Two contains a list of Other Healthcare Providers, such as Naturopathic Physicians, Midwives, Acupuncturists, and Massage Therapists, who have a focus on treating Perinatal and Postpartum Mood disorders in their practices. Section Three contains a list of Professional Doulas who have experience in working with families experiencing Postpartum Mood Disorders. For your convenience, the providers below are listed alphabetically by County in each section.



Section I: Professional Therapists and Other Medical Providers

Clallum County
King County
Kitsap County
Pierce County
Skagit County
Snohomish County
Whatcom County
Northwestern Oregon


Section II: Other Healthcare Providers

King County


Section III: Professional Doulas

King County
Snohomish County
Thurston County



SECTION ONE: Professional Therapists and other Medical Providers


Clallum County

Marian Birch, DMH
Psychological Services
P.O. Box 1507
Port Angeles, WA 98362
360.417.3065
Psychologist in private practice and a certified infant massage instructor. Specializes in individual therapy for children and adults, infant-parent psychotherapy, and offers infant massage and support groups for moms with Postpartum Depression.



King County

Shannon Armitage, MA
Center for Life Transitions, LLC
4703 S Findlay Street
Seattle, WA 98118
206.356.5645
lifetransitions@gmail.com
www.lifetransitions.blogspot.com
Couples and family therapist providing consultation and coaching to parents and families with young children. Issues addressed include adjusting to parenthood, parenting challenges, couple's concerns, personal/professional identity challenges, incorporating extended family, and postpartum mood problems.

Margaret Bergmann-Ness, MA, LICSW
2025 First Avenue, Suite 750
Seattle, WA 98121
206.551.4824
margaret@mbntherapy.com
www.mbntherapy.com
Licensed social worker providing psychotherapy. Works primarily with individuals. Focus is on postpartum adjustment and issues of early life affecting current situations.

Margie Bone, MD
2611 NE 125th Street, #206
Seattle, WA 98125
206.364.4329
Provides medication management and psychotherapy.

Rebecca Brabo Silva, MA, LMHC
444 NE Ravenna Boulevard, Suite 301
Seattle, WA 98115
206.660.6272
www.balanceyourlifeseattle.com
Licensed mental health counselor who practices in the Greenlake neighborhood in Seattle. Works with individuals and couples on a variety of issues, and specializes in the psychological effects of miscarriage and the treatment of Postpartum Depression.

Veronique Burke, LICSW
2021 Minor Avenue E, #2
Seattle, WA 98102
206.748.1347
Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in the treatment of pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Disorders. Offers psychotherapy, training and consultation services. Works with individuals, couples and mother-infant dyads. Has been a Listening Mothers group leader since 1997, a Bringing Baby Home Certified Gottman Educator, and leads Reflective Parenting workshops.

Leslie Butterfield, PhD
2200 24th Avenue E
Seattle, WA 98112
206.328.0910
Clinical psychologist providing therapy, training, and educational services. Works with individuals and couples. Certified Gottman trainer for the Baby Makes Three program. Specializing in care for pregnant and postpartum women dealing with anxiety or depression, adjustment to parenthood, loss and posttraumatic stress.

Family Services/New Parents Services
11911 NE 1st Street, Suite 300
Bellevue, WA 98005
425.450.0332
nps@family-services.org
www.family-services.org
From the moment you discover you're pregnant or consider adopting a baby to the first days and the first steps of your new baby, our programs help both moms and dads manage all of the stages of early parenting. Family Services/New Parent Services is a team of early emotional development therapists who are available to work with your family on the many questions that new parenthood brings.

Ellie Hochman, MSW
11415 NE 128th Street, #100
Kirkland, WA 98034
425.424.9494

Diana Mandell, MEd, LMHC
2835 112th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98004
425.451.4427
Licensed Mental Health Counselor providing psychotherapy. Has offered mother-infant groups at Redmond Pediatrics since 1994.

Kathy Melman, PhD
16040 Christensen Road, Suite 217
Tukwila, WA 98188
206.244.9959
206.241.7346 fax
Licensed clinical psychologist providing individual, couples, parenting and family therapy during and following pregnancy.

Kate O'Brien, MS, MSW, LICSW
1523 East Madison
Seattle, WA 98122
Mailing Address:
PO Box 18903
Seattle, WA 98118
206.235.1768
Staying attuned to your baby can be difficult when you are depressed and/or anxious. Kate can help you build and maintain a secure attachment between you and your baby.

Jane Soderberg, MN, ARNP
11415 NE 128th Street, Suite 100
Kirkland, WA 98034
206.818.3716
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner providing psychotherapy, medication assessment and management as well as education/consultation. Specialty areas are treatment of mood disorders during pregnancy and the parenting years.

Patricia Spach, MN, ARNP 4026 NE 55th Street, Suite E
Seattle, WA 98105
206.522.3543
patriciaspach@gmail.com
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner providing psychotherapy and medication management. Specialty areas include women's mental health, PPMD, and adolescent/young mothers with PPMD.

Eileen Stein, MSSW, LICSW
1818 Westlake Avenue N, Suite 124
Seattle, WA 98109
206.937.3972
eileen@eileenstein.com
www.eileenstein.com
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker providing psychotherapy and consultation for individuals and couples. Specialty areas include infertility, high risk pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum loss, and Postpartum Mood Disorders.

Denise Sterchi, MSW
843 NE 66th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
206.276.6063
Provides psychotherapy for women and couples during pregnancy and the postpartum or post-adoption period. Special interest in pregnancy after infertility. Home visits for women on bed rest in Seattle and Shoreline.

Lin Thoennes, MN, ARNP
8400 167th Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052
425.881.8400

Elizabeth Walker, MS, PhD
Neurofeedback Therapist and Counselor
5134 S Willow Street
Seattle, WA 98118
206.725.6926
ecwalker@speakeasy.net
www.seattleneurofeedback.com
Providing neurofeedback therapy and warm, supportive listening and counseling for adults and children with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and related mood disorders. Sliding fee scale and free initial consultation. To learn more about how neurofeedback can help, see www.seattleneurofeedback.com.



Kitsap County

Sarah Townsend, MA, LMHC
9431 Coppertop Loop NE, Suite 102
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
206.755.6066
www.bainbridgepsychotherapy.org
Licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in working with women who are experiencing Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders. Also provides individual and couples counseling regarding birth plans for pregnancies at risk for Postpartum Mood Disorders. Previously served on the Board and the Advisory Committee for PSI of WA.



Pierce County

Sarah Atchison, MA, MFT, CGE
4606 Bridgeport Way W, Suite B
Tacoma, WA 98466
253.222.0178
therapy@sarahatchison.com
Marriage and Family Therapist providing counseling to individuals, couples, and families. Specialty areas include pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the transition to parenthood. A Bringing Baby Home Certified Gottman Educator.



Skagit County

Margie Bone, MD
1101 22nd Street (Mondays only)
Anacortes, WA 98221
206.364.4329
Provides medication management and psychotherapy.



Snohomish County

H. Frank Andersen, MD
The Pavilion for Women and Children
900 Pacific Avenue
Everett, WA 98206
425.304.6165 (call for appointments)
Maternal-fetal medicine (high risk pregnancy) consultation by referral from primary physicians including patients with PPMD.

Juliana Nason Ashe, MA, LMHC, NCC, CMHS
Chrysalis Counseling Services
(Located at Sound Holistic Health)
2804 Grand Avenue, Suite 300
Everett, WA 98201
206.604.0996
425.645.5330 fax
juliana@chrysalis-counseling.com
www.chrysaliscounselingservices.com
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and Child Mental Health Specialist in private practice with a focus on perinatal and postpartum counseling for women and their families. This includes issues such as birth trauma, miscarriage and neonatal loss, infertility, Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders, preparing abuse survivors for birth, and attachment and bonding. Extensive experience providing therapy for children and adults, with additional training in foster care and adoption therapy. Current Vice-Chair for Postpartum Support International of Washington, and Washington State Coordinator for Postpartum Support International.


Whatcom County

Willow Myers-Newell, MA
119 N Commercial Street, Suite 325
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.961.1734



Northwestern Oregon

Paula Acker, LCSW
1962 NW Kearney Street, #104
Portland, OR 97210
503.940.5777
ackerp@comcast.net
www.paulaacker.com
Clinic counselor for Oregon Health and Sciences University Fertility Consultants and a private practice therapist specializing in family building, helping couples and individuals cope with infertility, and pregnancy loss. Has been in practice 18 years, is a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, and has been clinic counselor for OHSU for over 14 years. Sees patients before, during, and after pregnancy and has special interest in helping those that have pregnancy loss, Postpartum Depression, and grief and loss from failed infertility treatment cycles. Helped start Oregon Resolve and has provided twice yearly support/therapy groups for women with infertility.

Lesley Alter, LCSW
8532 N Ivanhoe, Suite 203
Portland, OR 97203
503.286.1004
Licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience providing individual and family therapy to those who are struggling with issu es of infertility, pregnancy loss, and Postpartum Mood Disorders.

Britt Anderson, PhD
04 SW Hamilton Street
Portland, OR 97239
503.977.7925
Licensed clinical psychologist providing psychotherapy to individuals and couples. Specialty areas include pregnancy and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

Baby Blues Connection
PO Box 33143
Portland, OR 97292-3143
360.735.5571 (Vancouver, WA number)
503.797.2843 (Portland, OR number)
info@babybluesconnection.org
www.babybluesconnection.org
Mom-to-mom support organization providing information, support, and resources to perinatal families and providers since 1994. Staffed by trained volunteers. Offers list of informed local providers. Phone and internet support, weekly mom-to-mom support groups, written materials, trainings, provider presentations, and volunteer opportunities.

Laurie Cox, LCSW
Motheroots
823 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
503.819.6354
lauriecoxlcsw@yahoo.com
www.mothersource.org
Laurie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing counseling to women and their partners specializing in issues related to fertility, pregnancy and birth trauma, loss, and the transition to motherhood. She utilizes relationship-based therapy, mind/body integration strategies, and sand tray in her practice.

Britta Dinsmore, PhD
7929 SW 37th Avenue, Suite D
Portland, OR 97219
503.913.4791
brittadinsmore@comcast.net
Licensed psychologist providing supportive psychotherapy. Works with individuals and couples. Specialty areas include pregnancy loss, pregnancy and postpartum adjustment following infertility, Postpartum Mood Disorders, and body image/eating disorder issues.

Gaby Donnell, LCSW
Motheroots
823 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232
503.287.2295
gabydon@gmail.com
www.mothersource.org
Gaby is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides counseling to women and their partners specializing in issues related to fertility, pregnancy, birth trauma, loss, and the transition to motherhood. She utilizes conversation, humor, sand tray, and imagery in her practice.

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM
LifeCircle Counseling and Consulting, LLC
PO Box 5803
Aloha, OR 97006
503.615.0845
cgoodmojab@lifecirclecc.com
www.lifecirclecc.com
Clinical Counselor and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant addressing the needs of women during the reproductive and parenting years, including issues of infertility, adoption, pregnancy, childbirth, attachment, maternal development, mothering, loving guidance, pregnancy loss, infant death, breastfeeding loss, emotional discomfort with breastfeeding, postpartum stress, depression and anxiety, communication, expectations, and role conflicts.

Jennifer Linnman, LCSW
1962 NW Kearney Street, Suite 106
Portland, OR 97209
503.490.1364
Social Worker specializing in treating children and families around issues of depression, anxiety, prenatal and postpartum issues, and parenting issues. Works with mother-infant/child dyads as well as with siblings affected by Postpartum Depression and Psychosis. Teaches in the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University.

Molly Padulo, MA
Orange Dot Counseling
1962 NW Kearney Street, Suite 103
Portland, OR 97210
503.358.6945
molly@orangedotcounseling.com
www.orangedotcounseling.com
Mental health therapist specializing in working with individuals and couples around postpartum and perinatal issues, as well as disordered eating patterns in mothers prior and after delivery.

Paula Wagenbach, PsyD
1818 NE Irving Street
Portland, OR 97232
503.421.0092
wagenbachpm@yahoo.com
Licensed psychologist providing Cognitive Behavior Therapy for adolescents and adults. Committed to helping heterosexual, lesbian, and adoptive women retain and expand their identities while developing healthy, joyful relationships with their children. Has also worked as a clinic counselor for University Fertility Consultants at Oregon Health and Sciences University for the past 13 years.



SECTION TWO: Other Healthcare Providers


King County

Beth Webber, MSOM, LAc, LMP
Zoe Lotus Healing Arts
402 NE 72nd Street, Suite 6
Seattle, WA 98115 and
6523 21st Avenue NE, Suite 3
Seattle, WA 98115
206.601.7204
info@zoelotus.org
www.zoelotus.org
Licensed Acupuncturist and Massage Therapist providing holistic health care options for all areas of women's wellness. Blends gentle acupuncture and massage in each session. Specialty areas include prenatal and postpartum care and PPMD.



SECTION THREE: Professional Doulas


King County


Debra Shelden, CD
425.681.0736
debra@eastsidedoulacare.com
www.eastsidedoulacare.com
Certified doula providing prenatal, birth, and postpartum support services, lactation support, private childbirth education, and The Happiest Baby on the Block instruction.

Katrina Sturgill, CD (DONA)
Kent, WA
206.550.3029
tristurgill@yahoo.com
Certified birth doula providing prenatal education, labor and delivery support, and early postpartum care. Works with families and single mothers. Services available to Pierce and King Counties.


Snohomish County

Melinda Ferguson, CD, PCD (DONA, PALS, NAPS)
Edmonds, WA 98026
melinda@babymoondoula.com
www.babymoondoula.com
DONA certified birth and postpartum doula serving North King and South Snohomish Counties with extensive experience working with postpartum mood disorders. Melinda provides prenatal education and support, labor and delivery support, lactation and postpartum support. Also serving as Interim Chair of Postpartum Support International of Washington.

Megan Miles
Birth Doula
Marysville, WA 98270
360.659.1886
425.876.5202
violetlane.mail@gmail.com
Birth doula providing prenatal education, labor support, lactation education, and postpartum support for families in Snohomish, North King, and Skagit Counties.


Thurston County

Tammy Putvin
Olympia, WA
360.493.1155




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If you are a provider who is interested in applying to be included on this resource list, please contact PSI of Washington's Membership Coordinator, Shannon Armitage, at lifetransitions@gmail.com to inquire into Professional Membership opportunities.

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Last updated April 2008 by Postpartum Support International of Washington

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