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Support for women who are pregnant, or in the first postnatal year, who are experiencing serious perinatal mental health difficulties, such as: birth trauma, psychosis, depression, anxiety, complicated reactions to loss, tokophobia.
- Directorate: Mental Health
- Client Age: All Age Adult
- Referral Criteria: Health professionals or GP
- Address: Willenhall Primary Care Centre, Remembrance Road, Coventry, CV3 3DG
- Reception hours: 09:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday
- Reception phone number: 024 7621 2176
About us
The Perinatal Mental health service works with women or birthing people who are pregnant, up to 2 years postnatally, who are experiencing serious perinatal mental health difficulties.
These might include issues such as:
- birth trauma
- psychosis
- depression
- anxiety
- prolonged feelings of loss, such as stillbirth
- an intense and disabling fear of childbirth (tokophobia)
- obsessive compulsive disorder;
- needing support with medically complicated pregnancies such as placenta praevia or a multiple pregnancy
Referrals are from a health professional only. We accept referrals up to twelve months post partum.
The service also has a Loss Pathway which supports mothers and birthing people who have lost a baby. Find out more:
Referrals are accepted from professionals only, for women living in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Meet the Team
Telephone number: 024 7621 2176
Referral Criteria: Health professionals: two pathways: Coventry & Rugby and north & south Warwickshire.
Beverley Veasey, Medical Secretary
Amber Sedgefield, Clinical Psychologist
Kelly Palmer, Community Psychiatric Nurse
Melissa Briggs, Community Psychiatric Nurse
Theresa Xuereb, Consultant Psychiatrist
