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Reproductive Psychiatry

Programs and Services

Overview

We offer psychiatric consultation and treatment plans to help you and your family deal with disorders at any phase of the reproductive cycle. Women come to us for evaluation and help with:

  • Pre-pregnancy planning
    Evaluation of a women’s mental health and medications prior to conception and development of a plan to prevent or manage the onset or recurrence of psychiatric condition. Women who had postpartum depression after a prior pregnancy have up to an 80% chance of recurrence.
     
  • Infertility issues
    Mood and anxiety disorders associated with infertility diagnoses and treatments.
     
  • Fetal Center and genetic counseling
    Helping mothers cope after diagnosis of a fetal genetic disorder.
     
  • Prenatal care
    Mood and anxiety disorders that occur during pregnancy.
     
  • Psychiatric medication management
    Helping help women and their primary physicians determine the best choice regarding psychiatric medicine during pregnancy and breastfeeding, based on the latest scientific information on the effects of these medications.
     
  • Postpartum care
    Mood and anxiety disorders after pregnancy, including postpartum depression, are the No. 1 complications after delivery, more than infection and hemorrhage.
     
  • Assistance during reproductive loss and grief
    Including stillbirths, miscarriage or the death of a child during the first year.
     
  • Perimenopause and menopause
    Mood and anxiety disorders leading up to and after menopause.