perinatal care

Fuck The Rules Podcast
Season 4 Episode 3

This episode was a delight to host with my guest, Sarah Wagener, tLMHC!

Sarah is working specifically in perinatal care and reproductive health, in addition to several other behavioral health disorders, and I knew I wanted to chat with her about her journey to becoming a therapist in a specialized area.

More info on Sarah:
Sarah is a mental health counselor located in Davenport, Iowa, where she was born and raised. She specializes in perinatal mental health, which encompasses mental health during or after pregnancy, birth trauma, postpartum, infertility, and loss. Sarah came to perinatal mental health through her prior work in labor, delivery, and postpartum as a registered nurse. She also offers an area of speciality for healthcare workers. Sarah runs Wagener Therapy with her husband Brandal, who is also a mental health counselor. In her spare time, she enjoys loving on her two dogs, reading, playing video games, and buying more plants than she has the space for.

Resources as discussed in the episode:
Postpartum Support International: postpartum.net

Motherhood Matters (located in Davenport): motherhoodmatterswellness.com/

Wagener Therapy: wagenertherapy.com
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Susan Roggendorf is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. In addition to hosting and producing her podcast, she's running a private practice as an independent provider full-time. Susan is a National Certified Counselor through the NBCC as well as an Emergency Responder & Public Safety Certified Clinician through NERPSC. When she's not busy with all those things, Susan is usually busy annoying her adult children or gardening.

In this episode of PDXPLORES, PSU School of Social Work , Black Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor Roberta Hunte discusses the need for systems of holistic, anti-racist perinatal care for parents and their children and how her research is making strives to facilitate the establishment of those systems.

Follow PSU research on Twitter: @psu_research and Instagram: @portlandstateresearch

Dr. Jenicka Engler sat with me to talk all about perinatal/postpartum care, parenting, preventing tantrums, sleep training, ADHD/autism in children, and so much more! She provides a refreshing combination of lived experience as a mom and her knowledge as an expert in the field. Want to know what the research says about gentle parenting and corporal punishment? Listen to the episode to find out more! Music: DJ DanceAlone and Kevin MacLeod