Candice Norcott, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, national consultant, and public speaker. Dr Norcott is an alum of Brown University and the University of Connecticut and completed her pre and post-doctoral work in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University.

Dr. Norcott works as an Assistant Professor and Clinical Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Mental Health Program (OMHP) at the University of Chicago. In this role, her work encompasses coordinating and providing trauma, gender, and culturally responsive psychiatric services to patients referred by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Patients are referred for a range of behavioral health presentations including but not limited to issues related to family planning, reproductive health, aging, and relationship conflict. Dr. Norcott is also the Director of Graduate Medical Education Well-Being for the University of Chicago where she brings her trauma-informed approach to resident physician and fellow well-being.

Dr. Norcott speaks internationally on issues related to trauma, gender, and race. She was featured on the Lifetime docu-series “Surviving R. Kelly” and is a recurring guest on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk as an expert discussing the impact of sexual abuse on girls and young women, and the intersection of race. Throughout her career, Dr. Norcott has been committed to trauma-informed and gender responsive services for girls and women, minority advancement in psychology, and cultural responsiveness in the health field.

Mickey Sperlich, PhD, is on faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work (State University of New York). She is an experienced midwife and researcher who studies the effects of trauma and mental health challenges related to reproduction. Sperlich has been a part of several trauma-focused perinatal studies and is co-creator of a psychosocial intervention for pregnant survivors of abuse. Sperlich is committed to developing trans-disciplinary approaches to address the sequelae of sexual violence and other trauma. This includes analyzing ways in which trauma is defined and experienced and developing and evaluating interventions which address issues experienced by survivors of trauma and which are directed at interrupting intergenerational cycles of violence and psychiatric vulnerability.

Helen Kim, MD, is a reproductive and perinatal psychiatrist, co-founder and director of the Hennepin Healthcare Mother-Baby Program and Redleaf Center for Family Healing and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Following psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Kim co-founded the Hennepin Women’s Mental Health Program, Minnesota’s first reproductive psychiatry program. She then completed a Bush Fellowship and created the Mother-Baby Program which opened in 2013 including the Mother-Baby Day Hospital, an intensive mental health program for perinatal women that was the 4th of its kind in the U.S. and the first in Minnesota. To improve access to mental health care, her team launched the HopeLine, a phone line that offers support and connection to resources for distressed pregnant and postpartum mothers, their family members and providers. In its first 6 years, the MB Program served more than 3000 families, and secured seed funding to expand into the Redleaf Center for Family Healing. Through the Mother-Baby Program and the new Redleaf Center, Dr. Kim hopes to help children thrive by supporting the emotional wellbeing and caregiving capacity of parents.