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Integrative Wellness for Reproductive Mental Health

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Description

This two-hour workshop explores integrative approaches to reproductive mental health, addressing pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Participants will learn how therapy can be combined with wellness practices such as mindfulness, somatic tools, and expressive arts. Emphasis will be placed on trauma-informed, culturally responsive care and collaboration with birthing professionals — including obstetricians, midwives, doulas, and lactation consultants — to support whole-person healing. Through this workshop, attendees will discover how integrative, team-based care can foster resilience and wellness across the reproductive journey.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this presentation is to equip clinicians with integrative, trauma-informed strategies to address reproductive mental health while collaborating effectively with other birthing professionals. Participants will expand their clinical toolkit to provide holistic, culturally responsive care that supports wellness in the perinatal period.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Define at least three common risk factors that increase mental health challenges that arise across the perinatal period.

  • Describe how integrative wellness practices such as mindfulness, somatic awareness, and expressive arts can be incorporated into clinical work with reproductive clients.

  • Identify at least two trauma-informed and culturally responsive strategies that enhance therapeutic care in perinatal mental health.

  • Demonstrate an understanding of effective collaboration strategies with birthing professionals (e.g., obstetricians, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants) to support client care.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Lacey Castilleja Fisher is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional and Registered Sand Therapist-Consultant/Trainer with a mental health private practice in Austin, Texas. Lacey has worked in a variety of settings including in a Children’s Advocacy Center to provide counseling to children that experienced sexual abuse and their families, and she decided to take the experience she had there and apply it to private practice. She built her practice around supporting children and adults that had experienced sexual abuse/assault and found a passion working with parents and parents to be when their sexual trauma was activated in the perinatal period. Lacey became passionate about working with parents that struggle with perinatal mental health struggles, specifically PTSD, after her own experience of becoming a mother and experiencing trauma after her newborn was unexpectedly admitted to the NICU. This led to Lacey learning as much as she could about perinatal trauma, pregnancy and infant loss, NICU trauma and fertility struggles. Lacey finds that the parents she works with respond well to EMDR, IFS and sandtray therapy at her counseling practice. Lacey was a co-founder of the Texas SandTray Association and has served as the Clinical Director for the Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Alliance of Texas and now serves on their advisory board.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Aetna Better Health of Louisiana