Abigail Burd, LCSW, PMH-C, is a perinatal mental health specialist in San Diego, CA. She is a licensed clinical social worker and certified in perinatal mental health by Postpartum Support International. Abby is a member of the Postpartum Health Alliance and has served on their executive board. Follow her Instagram/Twitter @burdtherapy or visit BurdTherapy.com
This is the guide to postpartum depression that I will be recommending from now on. Abby writes with warmth and compassion while offering concise, practical, and useful tips for mothers suffering from PPD. This book will help so many people, and I am so grateful that it exists. --Diana Spalding, MSN CNM, Senior Education Editor at Motherly and Author of The Motherly Guide to Becoming Mama Drawing on years of clinical practice of working with pregnant and postpartum clients, Abigail Burd has done an incredible job creating a home-based program and treatment manual to help understand, manage, and overcome all the mood shifts and anxieties that come with motherhood. If you are not seeing a maternal mental health therapist, this workbook is the very next best thing. I will be recommending this workbook to all of my clients. --Alison Reminick, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Women's Reproductive Mental Health Program, UC San Diego This workbook gives new and expectant parents a clear set of expectations and the related tools to manage common reproductive mental health issues. Abby has taken years of experience and combined her knowledge with best practices in evidence-based psychotherapy practice to give parents a surprisingly accessible and easy-to-apply approach to managing your family's health in the transition to parenthood. Do yourself a favor and read this before AND after the pregnancy! --Daniel Singley, Ph.D., Early Fatherhood Researcher, and Founder of The Center for Men's Excellence