Speakers

RMC Counseling, Therapist

Provider Bias: How it Exists and is Maintained

Aschylus is a member of the A.K. Rice Institute (AKRI) and has spent the last several years participating in experiential psychoanalytic group conferences about Power, Authority, Equity, Diversity and Race.

University of Utah (Psychology) & Help Me Grow Utah/United Way of Utah County

Infant Mental Health: Fostering Early Relational Health by Mindfully Supporting Baby’s Caregivers

At the center of Dr. Ilse’s interests and expertise is how nonverbal practices can support healthy relationships and emotion regulation.

Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment

Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health: --"it's the environment, stupid."

Dr. Moench is the president and co-founder of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE). UPHE has become the largest civic organization of medical professionals in the Western U.S. who are actively engaged in many environmental battles throughout the country and Western Canada.

Birth Learning Co-owner and Doula, and PSI-Utah Board Member

Integrated Support: How non-mental health care providers can support perinatal & postnatal mental health

After assisting friends and family in childbirth for over 25 years, Robynne certified as a DONA birth doula in 2010. She is also trained as a CAPPA postpartum doula and an ICEA childbirth educator. Robynne also teaches at University of Utah Medical Center. She loves birth and the wonderful women and families she serves. Robynne knows that for many, the pregnancy, birth, and/or postpartum period is sometimes not what they anticipated.

SHAUNTEA owner and Doula, and PSI-Utah Board Member

Integrated Support: How non-mental health care providers can support perinatal & postnatal mental health

Destiny is the owner of SHAUNTEA, a company focused on individual health & wellness during the childbearing & raising years. They are a DONA certified birth & postpartum doula, ICEA childbirth educator, parenting group coordinator and have been teaching somatics for over 16 years.

University of Utah Health, Perinatal Education

Post Traumatic Regrowth: How Grief and Trauma Can Lead to More Empathy

Elizabeth has worked in maternal child health since 1998. The majority of her career has been in prenatal education and lactation. She began teaching childbirth education classes in 2000 and completed her ICEA childbirth certification in 2002.

University of Utah - SUPeRAD Clinic Social Worker

Substance Use Disorder: Competency in Working with Pregnant & Postpartum Individuals with Substance Use Disorder

Hannah completed her Masters of Social Work at the University of Utah where she focused on social work in a healthcare setting. Prior to her current position with the SUPeRad Clinic, Hannah has worked in homeless street outreach, inpatient psychiatric care, substance use, and with refugees.

Juniper Mental Health

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Understanding and Treating Perinatal OCD

Dr. Morrison has been practicing and studying OCD, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and exposure therapies for over 12 years. She has authored multiple articles and book chapters related to ACT, OCD, exposure therapy, and OC related disorders.

Roots & Branches Wellness, Owner and Therapist

Faith Transitions: Spirituality and Religion during the Perinatal Period

In 2019 Laura Parry became certified in perinatal mental health (PMH-C). In addition

to helping clients through the perinatal period she enjoys working with those experiencing faith transitions through her counseling center, Roots and Branches.

Life After Placement & President of Utah Adoption Council

Birth Parents: Adoption language and the long term mental health of placement

Lynea Krukiewicz is a birth mother of 31 years reunited 19 years. She is the founder and president of Life-After-Placement, a non-profit birth mother support foundation that seeks to create awareness of women who place as contributors to the adoption community, not those who need rescuing and to provide resources for the mental anguish that placing can do to women.

Body Ethics: LGBTQ+ Eating Disorder, Body Image & Family Planning

M is a trans/non-binary art therapist, fat activist and artist whose work focuses on body justice, intersectional social justice and eating disorder treatment equity access.

PSI-Utah Board Member

Bridging the Gaps: Perinatal Mental Health Supports in Maternal and Child Healthcare- A Clinical Approach to Improving Mental Health Screening

Maja currently attends Weber State University, Annie Taylor Dee Nursing College, as a graduate student and will graduate summa cum laude with her doctorate degree in December 2022. Her clinical rotations have included General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, ENT, Women's Health, Oncology, Palliative Care, Pediatrics, and Family Medicine. Her doctorate project focused on standardizing perinatal mental health screening in the obstetric clinic setting.

Founder and Director of Amethyst Center for Healing

Intimate Partner Violence: IPV During the Childbearing and Child Raising Years

Martha Burkett Fallis, LCSW worked as an advocate and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Martha has been involved with Domestic Violence advocacy and treatment since 1999.

She has been a lead therapist, clinical director, and hospital administrator. She has served on executive boards and worked closely with various coalitions and associations within our domestic violence treatment community and co-founded the non-profit agency Amethyst Center for Healing.

Founder and Director of Amethyst Center for Healing

Intimate Partner Violence: IPV During the Childbearing and Child Raising Years

Jana Fulmer, LCMHC completed her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Utah and holds master’s degrees in Criminal Justice and Forensic Science from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has served on executive boards and worked closely with various coalitions and associations within our domestic violence treatment community and co-founded the non-profit agency Amethyst Center for Healing.

Policy Chair for Postpartum Support International – Utah Chapter, co-chair of the Utah Maternal Mental Health Policy Committee, and heads the Maternal Mental Health Caucus for Mom Congress

PMADs in Policy: Why it matters & how to get involved

Heather Dopp began her Maternal Mental Health advocacy work in 2019 after experiencing severe anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation during her second pregnancy in 2017. From testifying in Utah Legislative Committee hearings to sharing her story with Utah lawmakers in Washington, DC, Heather has learned firsthand the power that lived experience can have on influencing policy change.

Huntsman Mental Health Institute(Formerly UNI) Outpatient Clinical Manager and PSI-Utah Board Chair

Mental Health: Partners, Co-parents and Support, Oh my

As a survivor mom, Jamie is passionate about women’s mental health and creating access to services for all parents who are in the perinatal time period. She attended graduate school at the University of Utah and is currently working with the Huntsman Mental Health Institute to develop programming specific to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

PSI-Utah Founder

Emcee: Welcome, History and Introductions

Amy-Rose’s career has spanned 25 years in the fields of child development, abuse & trauma prevention, domestic violence, perinatal mental health, and depression and anxiety treatment. Her expertise as an educator and trainer in attachment, trauma and perinatal mental health has led her to speak at international conferences for the past 15 years.

Ripple Effect Counseling, St. Marks Hospital Perinatal Therapist, and PSI-Utah Board Chair

Mental Health: Partners, Co-parents and Support, Oh my

Anj Lineback, LCSW received her bachelors in Health Education and Promotion at the University of Utah. Anj attended Portland State University for her Masters in Social Work. Anj has worked with veterans, the homeless population, families, on the behavioral health unit, IOP, and is currently a Perinatal Mental Health Therapist.