Postpartum Depression Treatment Programs & Specialists

This page lists specialized postpartum depression treatment programs that help women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders like postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.

(Note: Our postpartum depression treatment list is in alphabetical order by state. Specialized programs outside of the United States are listed at the bottom. This list does not serve to endorse any particular program.)

UNITED STATES POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION TREATMENT

Arizona

Tucson – Mother’s Oasis at Serafina Women’s Center

California

Los Angeles - UCLA Women’s Life Center Los Angeles (LA), Lori Altshuler, MD and Vivien Burt, MD

Mountain View - El Camino Hospital Maternal Outreach Mood Services, Kristina Peterson, MFT

Pasadena – Emily Dossett, MD

San Diego - UCSD Maternal Mental Health Clinic, Katie Hurst, MD, 619-543-6932

San Francisco – Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, Chris Eaton, MD and Kerry Savola-Levin, LCSW, 415-833-2292

San Francisco – UC San Francisco Pregnancy & Postpartum Mood Clinic, Melissa Whippo, LCSW, 415-353-2566

San Jose - Pec Indman, EdD, MFT

Santa Monica - Ivy & Osborn, Lisa Osborn, PsyD, Ivy Margulies, PsyD, 310-828-7500

Stanford – Stanford Women’s Wellness Clinic

Tarzana - The Center for Postpartum Health, Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD

Colorado

Aurora – Perinatal Mood Disorder Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital’s Anschutz Medical Campus, Elizabeth Brass, MD, Cheryl Chessick, MD

Boulder - Kate Kripke, LCSW

Boulder – CREST Clinic at the University of Colorado, Sonja Dimidjian, MD

Denver - Perinatal Mental Health Program at The Children’s Hospital, Brian Stafford, MD

Connecticut

New Haven – Yale Medical Group, Kimberly Yonkers MD

Georgia

Atlanta - Emory Women’s Mental Health Program, Jeffrey Newport, MD, Toby Goldsmith, MD

Illinois

Chicago - University of Illinois at Chicago Perinatal Mental Health Project (Chicago)

Oak Brook - Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital Perinatal Depression Support Services, Dr. Diane Semprevivo

Chicago - Northwestern University Women’s Behavioral Health Services Program, Katherine Wisner, MD, Jackie Gollan, PhD

Chicago - Healthcare Alternative Systems (serving the Latina community)

Chicago – Insight Women’s Reproductive Mental Health

Iowa

Iowa City - University of Iowa Women’s Wellness & Counseling Service, Scott Stuart, MD, Robin Kopelman, MD

Kansas

Pregnancy & Postpartum Resource Center of Kansas

Kentucky

University of Louisville Women’s Mental Health Program (Louisville), Dr. Joyce Spurgeon, Sheila Ward CNM

Massachusetts

Boston - Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Women’s Mental Health, Dr. Lee Cohen, Dr. Ruta Nonacs, Dr. Marlene Freeman, Dr. Adele Viguera;

Boston - Brigham and Women’s Hospital Women’s Mental Health Program, Laura Miller, MD

Worcester - University of Massachusetts Medical School Women’s Mental Health Program, Dr. Rebecca Lundquist, Dr. Nancy Byatt, Dr. Kristina Deligiannidis

Maryland

Baltimore - Johns Hopkins Women’s Mood Disorders Center, Jennifer Payne, MD, Patricia Roy, MD, Jennifer Meuchel, MD

Michigan

Ann Arbor - University of Michigan Perinatal Mood Disorders Team, Sheila Marcus, MD, Heather Flynn, MD, Maria Muzik, MD, Juan Lopez, MD, Kate Bullard, LMSW

Grand Rapids — Pinerest Mother-Baby PPD Treatment Program

Minnesota

Minneapolis - Hennepin Women’s Mental Health Program, Helen Kim, MD (this center now features a mother-baby outpatient program)

for more Minnesota providers, visit http://ppsupportmn.org/

Missouri

St. Louis – Women’s Healthcare Partnership, Diane Sanford, PhD

New Jersey:

Englewood - The Rocking Chair, Naomi Greenblatt, MD

Tenafly - Blue Sky Consulting LLC, Susan Stone, MSW

Vorhees - Postpartum Stress Center (Vorhees), Karen Kleiman

New York:

Brooklyn - Sparks Center

Manhattan - Payne Whitney Women’s Program at Weill Cornell, New York, Margaret Altemus, MD

Manhattan - New York University Reproductive Psychiatry, New York, Shari Lusskin, MD

Manhattan - Women’s Mental Health Consortium, New York, Catherine Birndorff, MD;

Manhattan – Columbia University Women’s Program, New York, Eileen Kavanagh, MD

Manhattan – Sabrina Khan, MD, 646-530-8717

North Carolina

Chapel Hill - University of North Carolina Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, Chapel Hill, NC, David Rubinow, MD, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, Elizabeth Bullard, MD, Chris Raines RN

Charlotte - The Prenatal and Postpartum Center of the Carolinas, Carol Peindl

Ohio

Mason - Lindner Center of Hope Women’s Mental Health Program

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia - Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness, Deborah Kim, MD, C. Neill Epperson, MD

Philadelphia - The Center for Postpartum Depression, Dr. Barbara Lewin

Pittsburgh - Women’s Behavioral HealthCARE at the Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Rosemont - The Postpartum Stress Center, Karen Kleiman, MSW

Rhode Island

Providence - Women and Infants Hospital Day Program, Margaret Howard, PhD, Terri Pearlstein, MD (this center features a mother-baby outpatient program)

Tennessee

Nashville – Dr. Margot Feintuch, 615-269-0525

Texas

Houston – The Women’s Place, Texas Children’s Hospital, Lucy Puryear, MD;

Houston - St. Joseph Medical Center Women’s Behavioral Health, Marketa Wills, MD;

Dallas/Southlake - Neysa Johnson, MD

Washington DC

Georgetown University Women’s Mental Health Program, Dr. Barbara Byers, 202-687-0794

CANADA

Reproductive Mental Health Program at St. Paul’s Hospital and BC Women’s, Vancouver, Shaila Misri, MD

Perinatal Mental Health Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ariel Dalfen, MD

University of Toronto Women’s Mental Health Program, Toronto

Women’s College Hospital Reproductive Life Stages Program, Toronto

Women’s Health Concerns Clinic, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Claudio Soares, MD

Royal Ottawa Women’s Mental Health Program, Ottawa

Women’s Mental Health, The Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton

AUSTRALIA

Perth Clinic Mother Baby Program, Perth

Royal Women’s Hospital Centre for Women’s Mental Health, Victoria

Note: Do you have a postpartum depression treatment program or specialty clinic that you believe should be listed here? We welcome submissions for any English-speaking country. We make inclusion decisions on whether organizations or individual practices are specifically geared toward women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. They focus on reproductive psychiatry and can prove their specialized training. They are comprehensive programs, offering postpartum depression treatment, hosting support groups and/or conducting research into these illnesses. Their clinicians are specialists. And, I know most of them, which means I trust them enough to list them here. If you think your hospital or university’s program should be included in this list, email us at [email protected].