Due to the overwhelming need for virtual educational resources for parents in the NICU setting, NICU Helping Hands has made the decision to introduce a new webinar series, Point of Views. Each webinar will focus on crucial topics regarding maternal infant health, life in the NICU, transitioning from the hospital to home, and infant loss.
For our first webinar, we were so incredibly lucky to have Dr. Mara Tesler Stein of The Touchstone Institute as she spoke about the emotional threads of the NICU experience (and beyond), especially in the context of COVID19.
Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-C is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in perinatal & maternal-infant mental health. She is the co-author (with Deborah Davis, Ph.D.) of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey (Fulcrum, 2004) and Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Journey Through the NICU (Fulcrum, 2013).
Dr. Stein is a staunch advocate for trauma-focused care and is trained and certified in a range of integrative trauma therapies. A certified EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Trainer for the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, she offers both EMDR
Foundational trainings for perinatal specialists & advanced EMDR workshops which take a deeper dive into the intersections and applications of EMDR and perinatal mental health.
Her trauma work is grounded in her personal perinatal journey, which began 25 years ago taking her through infertility, twin pregnancy, prolonged hospital bedrest, the NICU, and years of raising NICU graduates.