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by Hilary Waller (Author), Karen Kleiman (Author)
Author Biography
Hilary Waller, LPC, is the Director of Education and Programming and a psychotherapist at The Postpartum Stress Center. After earning dual bachelor's degrees at Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary, Hilary worked with adolescents in both formal and informal educational settings. This experience piqued her interest in parent-child relationships and led her to pursue a master's degree in counseling psychology with a specialty in marriage and family therapy. Hilary currently provides individual and group therapy services at The Postpartum Stress Center, as well as specialized trainings for both mental health care providers and non-mental health care providers seeking expertise in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW, is a well-known international maternal mental-health expert with over thirty-five years of experience. As an advocate and author of several groundbreaking books on postpartum depression and anxiety, her work has been featured worldwide within the mental health community and beyond for decades. In 1988, Karen founded The Postpartum Stress Center, the premier treatment and training facility for prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety. In 2022, she founded The Karen Kleiman Training Center, LLC, dedicated to the advancement of clinical expertise and therapeutic strategies for the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. All advanced trainings are heavily influenced by The Art of Holding Perinatal Women in Distress(TM) model of intervention she developed in 2017.
