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Karen Kleiman

Karen Kleiman is a well-known international maternal mental-health expert, with over thirty years of experience. As an advocate and author, her work has been featured on the internet and within the perinatal mental health community for decades. In 1988, Karen founded The Postpartum Stress Center, a treatment and training facility for prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety disorders, where she treats individuals and couples. Karen has been interviewed for, featured in, and reviewed by local and national TV, magazines, radio shows, and health websites. Her national television appearances include Katie, Inside Edition, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. A few popular magazines and websites that have featured her work or interviewed her include Self, Fit Pregnancy, HuffPost, Today'sParent, Parenting, Working Mother, CNN.com, and Mothering. - Molly McIntyre is an illustrator and comic artist with a background in traditional printmaking and book arts techniques. Her illustrations have been featured in Bitch magazine, Everyday Feminism, Scary Mommy, Psychology Today, and more. She is currently working on a collection of comics about new motherhood, called Momzines. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and young son.

Noah Suzuki

Noah Suzuki is the director of programming at the Karen Kleiman Training Center and senior therapist at the Postpartum Stress Center. Noah is a psychotherapist with specialized training in Holding Therapy for perinatal distress and exposure-based treatments for anxiety disorders, specifically posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and social anxiety disorder. Noah holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Temple University and received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Prior to joining The Postpartum Stress Center, Noah was a researcher and intake coordinator at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. There, he received formalized training in prolonged exposure (PE) in the treatment PTSD and Exposure-Based Response Prevention (ERP) in the treatment of OCD. In his internship at The Postpartum Stress Center, Noah developed a passion for working with the perinatal population and providing support to new or seasoned parents as they navigate the challenges associated with having a baby. In his clinical work, Noah employs an eclectic, transdiagnostic approach, pulling from the various influences and trainings he has been exposed to in an attempt to meet the unique needs of each client.