Matrescence: The Process of Becoming a Mother | Misty Richards, MD, MS

Misty Richards, MD, MS is the Director of Infant Mental Health of
the UCLA Maternal Mental Health Program. She is the Co-Founder
and Medical Director of Perinatal Psychiatry for the Maternal
Outpatient Mental health Services (MOMS) Clinic in the Department
of OB-GYN, where she treats patients with perinatal mood
disorders, anxiety, and psychosis while educating the next
generation about reproductive psychiatry. She is a child, adult,
and reproductive psychiatrist at UCLA who holds a joint
appointment in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is double
board-certified in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry and
specializes in infant mental health, with recent completion of
the NAPA Parent-Infant Mental Health Fellowship. Dr. Richards
also serves as the Program Director for the UCLA Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and is highly involved in
medical student education as a Core Faculty Educator in the
Scientific Foundations of Medicine for the David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA.


 


There's A Name For The Ups And Downs Of New Motherhood: It's
Called Matrescence


UCLA Maternal Outpatient Mental health Services (MOMS) Clinic


UCLA Maternal Mental Health Program