Jamie is one of the few clinicians in the United States dual-trained as a Certified Nurse-Midwife and a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, with advanced expertise in reproductive psychiatry.

Her career spans birth center midwifery, academic tertiary obstetric care, and reproductive psychiatry. Clinically, she has held leadership roles in integrated perinatal mental health and behavioral health programs. As an advocate, she contributes to maternal health policy and workforce initiatives across the Mid-Atlantic. This work directly informs the PMHP approach.

PMHP reflects Jamie’s commitment to building a maternal health system grounded in early identification, prevention, collaboration, and respect for the lived experiences of birthing people.

Jamie founded PMHP after years of practicing as an obstetric provider and repeatedly encountering a critical system gap: she could identify birthing people at risk for perinatal mental health complications, yet access to specialized psychiatric care was typically reactive and delayed. She saw this pattern repeat itself despite clear evidence that many perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are both predictable and preventable.

Determined to do better, Jamie pursued her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner training at Johns Hopkins University. She relocated to North Carolina for a reproductive psychiatry clinical rotation at one of only two institutions in the country with a dedicated perinatal psychiatric inpatient unit that allows mothers to remain with their babies—an intentional choice to train within a model of care centered on the needs of birthing people.

After returning to Baltimore, Jamie continued advanced training in reproductive psychiatry and joined the Reproductive Mental Health Center at Johns Hopkins University. While at Johns Hopkins, she co-led an integrated perinatal mental health clinic within the Department of Obstetrics alongside a Maternal Fetal Medicine colleague.

PMHP was founded to take the integrated perinatal mental health model one step further by shifting care upstream toward prevention and engaging birthing people before a crisis emerges. PMHP partners directly with obstetric practices to identify risk early, reduce barriers to care, and provide timely, specialized perinatal mental health support throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period

Jamie believes that early, preventive perinatal mental health care should be a routine part of obstetric care, and PMHP exists to help make that standard rather than the exception.