Laura Orr, Ursula Nagle and Janet Best will present a seminar on ‘‘The Lived Experience, the Evidence and Interventions to Support Women’s Perinatal Mental Health’. This will take place on Tuesday 18th June 2024 at 11am via Microsoft Teams. Current members will receive an MS Teams invite.
Laura Orr
Laura is married to Austin and is a first-time mum to Adelaide (sixteen months old). She lives in Articlave on the Northwest Coast of Northern Ireland. Following a period of post-natal mental illness, requiring in-patient treatment, Laura is campaigning for the introduction of a mother and Baby Unit in Northern Ireland. Laura works in Public Affairs and Campaigns for a health charity and has worked in the health sector for over twelve years.
Ursula Nagle
Ursula Nagle is an Advanced Midwife Practitioner (AMP) in perinatal mental health/trauma. She is based in the specialist perinatal mental health service in the Rotunda Hospital. Ursula has a special interest in childbirth-related trauma, developing the first perinatal trauma clinic in Ireland in 2020.Over the years Ursula trained in trauma-focused interventions including CBT and EMDR. She is currently undertaking a PhD (part-time) in Trinity College School of Nursing and Midwifery, her research is exploring the experiences of women with a history of interpersonal trauma who also experienced birth as traumatic.
Janet Best
Janet currently works as the Perinatal Mental Health and Social Complexity Co-Ordinator in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital. Her team is known as the SWAN Team, which includes herself and 2 other midwives.
The SWAN Team takes a collaborative and holistic approach to social complexity and perinatal mental health problems in pregnancy by putting women and their families at the centre of care. They work alongside all teams involved in a woman’s care to ensure clear communication, and to determine an outcome which is based on the women’s strengths and assets.
Their aim is to help women to become service owners, not just service users by changing the conversations and perceptions from problems to potential. And this is envisaged through a process of integrated team working, giving information and trusting women to make the best decisions for themselves and their families.”
