Last month Seleni was proud to launch its Scholarship for Maternal Mental Health Professionals for 2021 and is pleased to announce its first round of scholarship recipients for the year.

Dr. Erica Mindes is a psychologist with more than a decade of experience providing counseling to individuals and couples struggling with infertility, the stress of treatment, miscarriage, pregnancy after loss, and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She also counsels those considering building their families through third-party reproduction, including LGBTQIA+ couples and single parents.

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Application for the scholarship is open to mental health professionals, social workers, doulas, midwives, nurses, lactation consultants, or other health care professionals.

Allison Peck, LMSW, MA, BBA, RYT, has been working with pregnant women and new parents since 2012, after receiving her Masters of Arts in General Psychology from The New School for Social Research, and gaining experience at the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program at Beth Israel Hospital, New York City.

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