Build connection. Strengthen care.
Transform support for families.
Join a thriving community of professionals dedicated to perinatal and maternal mental health across Greater Houston. Whether you're a therapist, OB/GYN, prescriber, doula, pelvic floor therapist, lactation consultant, case manager, or behavioral health provider, this monthly gathering is your space to connect, collaborate, and grow.
We will meet monthly, on the first Thursday of the month for community, collaboration, and learning. Locations will vary across Houston.
The Maternal Mental Health Collective:
Greater Houston Gathering
Our Mission
We're building a stronger safety net for families across Greater Houston—from Conroe to Pearland, The Woodlands to Baytown, and everywhere in between. Our mission is to connect, equip, and strengthen the network of professionals supporting perinatal and maternal mental health, so that no provider works in isolation and no family falls through the cracks.
What to Expect
• Introduction from sponsors
• 45-minute featured presentation on clinical or systems-level topics
• Networking for collaboration
What We Do Together
Each month, we gather to strengthen the web of care surrounding birthing people and families. We connect across disciplines, create stronger referral pathways, learn from local experts, and build a more collaborative and inclusive care network.
What We Stand For
Collaborative care over silos.
Perinatal mental health isn't a solo endeavor. We believe families deserve a connected system of care where providers work together seamlessly across disciplines.
Inclusive, trauma-informed support.
Every family's journey is unique. We're committed to care that honors diverse experiences, centers dignity, and recognizes the impact of trauma.
Thriving providers, thriving families.
When providers feel supported, resourced, and connected, they can show up more fully for the families who need them. Strong professional networks create ripple effects that reach parents, babies, and entire communities.
Better together.
We believe that collaboration isn't just nice to have—it's essential. Strong networks build better outcomes, period.
Who Should Attend
This gathering is for any professional committed to accessible, trauma-informed, family-centered perinatal care. If you're ready to be part of a regional movement that's changing how we support families, we'd love to have you.
Next Gathering Topic 📌
Every Family Deserves a Village:
How Every Discipline Holds — and Can Better Serve — the Postpartum Mother
🗓 May 7th from 9:30am - 11:00am
📍 6823 Northampton Way, Houston, TX 77055
May is Maternal Mental Health Month. And this month we're doing something that feels simple but rarely actually happens.
We're asking every discipline in the room the same question: what does the postpartum period look like from where you stand?
Because every provider who touches a postpartum mother sees her differently. Her OB sees her at the six-week visit — for twenty minutes, maybe once. Her therapist sits with her week after week as she tries to find herself again. Her doula held her in the hours after birth when she was terrified and exhausted. Her pediatrician watches her at well-child visits, often noticing what the clinical eye catches before the mother can name it herself. Her lactation consultant is on the phone with her at midnight when she's crying and can't figure out if the struggle is physical or emotional or both. Her social worker sees what happens when all the other systems fail.
We see the same mother. But we almost never compare notes.
This panel is about changing that — by giving each discipline a chance to share their lens, understand each other's work, and build the collaboration and cross-referral relationships that make postpartum care better for the mothers we serve.
Here's what you'll walk away with:
→ A clear picture of how each discipline experiences and responds to postpartum mental health — in their own words
→ Practical cross-referral language: what to include, what to ask for, what a warm handoff actually looks like
→A better understanding of what your colleagues in other specialties see — and what they miss — in the postpartum period
→Recognition of the unique role your discipline plays in postpartum care, and how to communicate that value to others
→Real connections with providers across disciplines that can become lasting referral relationships
We'll explore:
• What postpartum mental health looks like from each discipline's clinical vantage point — the presentations they see, the tools they use, where they feel equipped and where they reach their limits
• Where our work overlaps — where multiple disciplines are touching the same postpartum mother, sometimes without knowing it
• What warm, effective cross-referral looks like in practice — and what gets in the way
• Where postpartum mothers fall through the cracks between our roles, and what we can do about it
• What better collaboration actually looks like — and what we could build together as a Collective
Moderated by Dr. Lauren Pasqua, Psy.D., PMH-C | Center for Postpartum & Family Health
Host: Pinkerton Psychotherapy
Sponsor: Charlie Health
