The Well Parents Project is an evolving body of work aimed at increasing access to perinatal mental health care for all families. We aim to move beyond a restrictive framework of how we define mental health care and who provides this care to include everyone who works or interacts with new and expectant parents. To improve access to care and address our perinatal mental health provider shortage we need o think on all levels of change - micro, mezzo, and macro using deeply humble and anti-oppressive practice frameworks.

We aim to work with a wide range of professionals across the child and family and reproductive health care fields to increase services that parents want. We believe that every service provider/health care provider working with people in perinatal period have an important part to play. This includes non-clinical support services ( home visitors, doulas, parent resource services, medical/obstetrical, early childhood professionals, as well as a trained mental health workforce). We provide a range of support includes expert consulting, training, workgroups and legislative advocacy, and more.

Who we are

We are a group of perinatal mental health clinicians, trainers, supervisors, advocates, and change makers who specialize in wide range of modalities that support individuals across the reproductive lifespan. Our specialization range from individual therapy, couples and families approaches, as well specialties such as birth trauma, neurodiversity, sexual intimacy, perinatal mental health systems change/implementation, public health focused initiatives, and more.