Shoshana Center Founder and Director
Deborah Rich, PhD.
Licensed Psychologist, PMH-C
RTS Certified Bereavement Coordinator
PSYPACT Certified for Telehealth
I have over 35 years of specialty experience in reproductive health psychology, providing psychotherapy, professional training, consultation, and program development. My national and international audiences include mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, hospital chaplains, clergy, nurse-midwives, doulas, and childbirth educators. From 1999-2013 I served as the first and only system wide Coordinator of Pregnancy Loss and Newborn Death for Fairview Health Services in Minnesota until Perinatal Support Services Department was eliminated. During my tenure there, I developed policy, procedure and patient care services across multiple hospitals and clinics.
Current leadership positions include Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance since 2002, National Faculty of Resolve Through Sharing since 2006, and Chair of the internnational Marce Society Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death special interest group since 2022. Past leadership positions include the North American Society for Psychosocial OB/Gyn, Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Minnesota, and Minnesota Women in Psychology. I was among a handful of mental health professionals in the first cohort of Perinatal Loss Caregivers certified in 2013 by the National Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center. And I was granted certification in perinatal mental health therapy (PMH-C) by Postpartum Support International in 2021.
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