[ Create an account](/create-an-account)[ Log In](/log-in) [ Cart](/cart) [ ![Telehealth Certification Institute LLC Logo]() ![Telehealth Certification Institute LLC Logo]()](/) # Postpartum Psychosis ## What to Know as a Behavioral Health Professional ## Enroll in the Online Self-Study and complete the training on your own schedule. ## 2 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians completing the Online Self-Study **Would you recognize postpartum psychosis if a client appeared lucid during an appointment? Symptoms can fluctuate and escalate quickly, making timely recognition essential. Therapeutic support remains important long after the acute emergency has passed.** For behavioral health professionals working with perinatal clients, responding effectively means recognizing concerning changes, helping clients reach immediate care, and understanding recovery. This introductory 2-CE course addresses those responsibilities while examining the stigma and uncertainty that can complicate seeking and receiving support. Register for the 2 CE Online Self-Study for **$60** *Payment Options are listed at checkout* [Register Now - 2 CEs](/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=updatecart&quantity=1&cid=1616&Itemid=2665) Register for the 0 CE Training Video for **$30** *Payment Options are listed at checkout* [Register Now - No CEs](/index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=updatecart&quantity=1&cid=1617&Itemid=2665) Julia Alzoubaidi, Ph.D., PMH-C, is a licensed psychologist who brings professional expertise and lived experience of postpartum psychosis. She manages Postpartum Support International’s Postpartum Psychosis Program and coordinates its Postpartum Psychosis Task Force. Her work with survivors and families, including co-facilitating a support group, connects clinical understanding with firsthand insight into the challenges of recognizing the illness and rebuilding life afterward. Distinguishing possible psychosis from other perinatal concerns requires attention to changes from a client’s usual functioning and cultural context. Dr. Alzoubaidi explores how nonjudgmental questions and family observations can clarify a complex presentation, emphasizing safety and urgent evaluation when diagnostic certainty is not yet possible. After stabilization, clients may face depression and grief while trying to understand an experience that has disrupted their sense of self. Explore ways to help clients rebuild confidence and family relationships while acknowledging the potential trauma of psychosis and hospitalization. Practical supports and realistic expectations help clinicians respond to uncertainty about the future while making room for hope. ![Julia Alzoubaidi Headshot]() ### Instructor **Julia Alzoubaidi, Ph.D., PMH-C** Julia Alzoubaidi, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist who worked with children and adolescents until her firstborn was six months old, when she experienced postpartum psychosis. As part of her healing process, she began volunteering with PSI in various capacities. Her involvement evolved into managing PSI’s Postpartum Psychosis Program and coordinating PSI’s Postpartum Psychosis Task Force. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two children. **Key Takeaways:** - **Recognize less obvious presentations:** Consider how cognitive confusion, paranoia, and fluctuating symptoms can be overlooked when a client appears lucid or has difficulty describing their experience. - **Help families navigate urgent care:** Explore how to communicate concrete concerns and identify local referral options while accounting for barriers to treatment and available support. - **Support recovery in daily life:** Understand how psychoeducation, protected sleep, and peer connection can complement therapeutic work after acute stabilization. **Why this course?** - **A focused clinical foundation:** Build introductory knowledge of an often misunderstood condition while recognizing the limitations of screening and the importance of further evaluation. - **Professional expertise informed by lived experience:** Learn from a psychologist whose personal recovery and work with survivors bring context to the challenges clients and families face. - **A broader view of recovery:** Attention to identity and family relationships helps clinicians understand why ongoing support matters after the most visible symptoms have resolved. **Learning Objectives:** - **Describe** the prevalence, risk factors, etiology, symptoms, and clinical course of Postpartum Psychosis (PP). - **Identify** best practices for assessing risk, involving family, and connecting to immediate treatment, as well as potential next steps in their own setting. - **Describe** both immediate and long-term therapeutic needs.  Register to strengthen your understanding of postpartum psychosis and your role in helping clients access appropriate care. Develop a more informed, compassionate approach to supporting people and families through the immediate crisis and the longer process of recovery. [Enroll in the Online Self-Study](#EnrollmentOptions) ### Select each tab for course details Course Details **Availability:** From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework. **Who Should Attend:** This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services. **Teaching Methods:** This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation. **How to attend:** [**Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.**](/how-to-complete-a-course) **This program was recorded on October 30, 2026.** CE Hours **Credit Hours:** CEs provided with this course include 2 continuing education hours of credit. **Counselors:** Telehealth Certification Institute LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0048. **Marriage and Family Therapists:** Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if this course would be accepted by your licensing board. **Social Workers:** Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0435. **Addiction Professionals:** This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming. **Psychologists:** Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 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