#47: Ashlee Adams MSW, LCSW: The Postpartum Stress Center

On this episode, I welcome seasoned mom, licensed clinical social worker, Director of Clinical and Counseling Services and therapist at The Postpartum Stress Center, Ashlee Adams. In addition to working with clients, Ashlee oversees the clinical staff at The Postpartum Stress Center, as well as programming for founder Karen Kleiman’s Training Center. You’ll hear Ashlee share about how Karen, who is a well-known international maternal mental health expert, author, and advocate, founded The Postpartum Stress Center in Pennsylvania in 1988. Since that time, The Postpartum Stress Center has served as a specialty treatment practice for those experiencing emotional health challenges in pregnancy and postpartum and now also offers advanced trainings for perinatal therapists. Ashlee talks through how Karen’s therapeutic intervention, known as “The Art of Holding Perinatal Women in Distress” informs the care that she and her team deliver to moms and partners who are experiencing mood and anxiety disorders. So before we start, let me share with you that my guest today wins the award for the first and hopefully last guest who has been open to making her episode a maternal mental health and true crime mash-up. All of that and more, next.