Program Directors
Faculty Program Director: Roseanne Clark, PhD, IMH-E®, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Roseanne Clark, PhD, IMH-E® is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and is the Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the Capstone Certificate Program. Dr. Clark developed and was Director of the Parent-Infant and Early Childhood Clinic in the UW Department of Psychiatry for over 25 years. She has provided teaching and supervision on the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of mental health disturbances in infancy and early childhood and early parent-child relationships to psychiatry and pediatric residents and post-doctoral fellows, interns, and graduate students in clinical, counseling and school psychology programs. She is a licensed psychologist and has received Endorsement as an Infant Mental Health Mentor. Dr. Clark developed the widely used Parent-Child Early Relational Assessment (PCERA), and the Mother-Infant Therapy Group Approach for Postpartum Depression (M-ITG), was a major contributor to the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of infancy and Early Childhood (DC: 0-3) and is a national trainer for the DC:0-5. For over 35 years, Dr. Clark’s research and numerous articles have focused on screening, evaluation and treatment of postpartum depression and infant and early childhood mental health, maternal employment and early parent-child relationships at-risk. Through the UW Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Team, Dr. Clark provides mental health consultation to home visiting and early care and education programs and mentoring for aspiring IMH mental health consultants.Dr. Clark is invited to speak, teach and consult nationally and internationally. Dr. Clark has translated the results of her research and the evidence based evaluation and treatment protocols into community based interventions for underserved women, their infants and families including collaborating with community partners in Dane County to develop the Early Childhood Initiative (ECI), a comprehensive home visitation program for families with infants and young children affected by poverty. She has been committed to conducting research to inform policy and practices that impact women in the childbearing/childrearing years, infants, young children and their families. She has served on state and national scientific advisory committees including the Wisconsin Governor’s Early Intervention Coordinating Council, the Lt. Governor’s Task Force on Women and Depression, the Department of Health Services Maternal-Child Health Advisory Committee, the Wisconsin Task Force on Perinatal Mood Disorders, the National Institute of Mental Health Roundtable on Perinatal Depression and the NIMH Workgroup on Assessment of Infant/Toddler Mental Health. Dr. Clark has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous NIH funded studies including a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a mother-infant relational approach for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and a study investigating the validity of screening and assessment measures of social-emotional functioning in infants and young children. She is currently partnering with the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families on the Addressing Postpartum Depression in Wisconsin Home Visiting Programs and the HRSA Innovations Grant in Early Relational Screening, Assessment and Support in Home Visiting projects. She has also received with colleagues in the School of Medicine and Public Health, funding for a CDC Prevention Research Center and is PI for the primary research project in the Center focused on the evaluation of a Brief Therapeutic Approach for Maternal Postpartum Depression and Mother-Infant Relationships.
Dr. Clark was awarded the Champion in Women’s Health Award for Mental Health from the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Van Hise Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for Outreach Education and the James R. Ryan Award which is presented by the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the social-emotional development of infants, young children and their families in Wisconsin. Dr. Clark provides academic oversight and direction for the Capstone Certificate Program and teaches, advises students, and provides reflective consultation for mental health professionals in the program as well as providing guidance for visiting faculty and monthly reflective mentoring for the Capstone program’s Reflective Mentors.
Contact
Roseanne Clark, PhD, IMH-E®
rclark@wisc.edu
Co-Director: Sarah Strong, MSSW, LCSW, IMH-E® (Clinical Mentor) , Capstone Certificate Program Co-Director, Department of Psychiatry, UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Sarah Strong, MSSW, LCSW, IMH-E® is the Co-director of the Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program, the Wisconsin Child-Parent Psychotherapy Learning Community, and the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Training Site at the Department of Psychiatry, UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Sarah is engaged with all aspects of the Capstone Certificate Program, and provides instruction for the program on attachment, the intersection of attachment and exposure to trauma in the early years, trauma principles and treatment for very young children, secondary traumatic stress, and the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System. She provides reflective consultation for clinicians who are in the Wisconsin Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Learning Community and for licensed mental health professionals in the Capstone Certificate Program. She is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Clinical Mentor by the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health. Sarah has worked in the field of mental health for over thirty years as a psychotherapist, reflective consultant and educator specializing in infant and early childhood mental health and trauma treatment for very young children and their parents. She has previously worked as a psychotherapist at Group Health Cooperative and at the Mental Health Center of Dane County (now Journey Mental Health Center), where she coordinated and supervised the Family Preservation Program, provided office-based and in-home psychotherapy, and supervised Family Support Specialists, mental health therapists, graduate students and post-graduate interns working toward licensure. She has also served as an Assistant Faculty Associate and Field Instructor for the UW School of Social Work. Sarah completed her Master of Science in Social Work degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Certificate Program. She is on the National Roster of Child Parent Psychotherapy Providers and Trainers, and is a Wisconsin State Trainer for Child Parent Psychotherapy. Sarah has worked with faculty of the Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital to become endorsed as a Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Trainer. Sarah has participated in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Professional Training with Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, practices mindful meditation and uses mindfulness and mindful meditation in her work.
Contact:
Sarah Strong, LCSW, IMH-E®
sstrong@wisc.edu
Reflective Practice Mentors, Clinical Consultants and Instructional Staff
Carmen Alonso, PhD facilitates the Mindfulness Sessions for the UW Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health (IECFMH) Capstone Certificate Program. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified mindfulness instructor, and Tae Kwon Do instructor. Her nonprofit organization, Just Mindfulness, works to develop and implement mindfulness-based interventions with a social justice orientation. She is a collaborator on research initiatives with the Cultivating Justice CoLaboratory at the Center for Healthy Minds to bring mindfulness practices to police officers and formerly incarcerated individuals. She is also a volunteer with the Wisconsin Prison Mindfulness Initiative and the Prison Ministry Project restorative justice program.
Annette Copa, LCSW, IMH-E® provides Reflective Clinical Consultation for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. Ms. Copa is the Integrated Behavioral Health Provider for the Mayo Clinic Health System Pediatric Practice on Northwestern Wisconsin. She has specialized training and experience in infant and early childhood mental health, trauma, pediatric anxiety disorders and perinatal/postpartum mood issues. Ms. Copa holds the highest clinical level infant mental health endorsement for the state of Wisconsin and supports providers in the acquisition of reflective and relationship-focused practices. Ms. Copa is a guest presenter for the UW Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program, and a nationally rostered practitioner of Child Parent Psychotherapy.
Carol Noddings Eichinger, MS, LPC, IMH-E® provides Reflective Clinical Consultation for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program as well as instruction related to reflective supervision for practicing professionals. She is trained as a child psychotherapist and has worked with many families in understanding the complexities of challenging behaviors and how to rediscover the joyfulness of parenting. Throughout her extensive career, Ms. Noddings Eichinger has contributed to the field of infant mental health through direct work with infants, children and families and supported professional development through reflective supervision and consultation. She recently retired from her role as the Program Director for Early Childhood Professional Development at the Waisman Center UCEDD, UW Madison. Ms. Noddings Eichinger supports individuals and teams throughout the state on reflective practices and reflective supervision within a variety of home-visiting models. For ten years, she worked as an early interventionist on a Birth to 3 team in Alaska to implement the primary coach approach to teaming. Later, in Wisconsin, she served as the Birth to 3 Supervisor with the Department of Health Services and is very familiar with Birth to 3 programs around the state. Carol received her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of Laverne, California, and also has postgraduate study in Early Childhood Special Education and in Infant Mental Health. She is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Specialist Clinical Mentor.
Janna L. Hack, LCSW, IMH-E® provides Reflective Clinical Consultation for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. Ms. Hack received her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work at Wayne State University and completed the Post Masters Infant Mental Health Certificate Program from Merrill Palmer, Wayne State University in 1999. For more than 25 years, Ms. Hack has provided clinical treatment, consultation, training and reflective supervision across a variety of systems, including child welfare, Birth to 3, early care and education, and home visiting. Ms. Hack previously developed and oversaw the statewide Reflective Supervision and Infant Mental Health Consultation Training Program within home visiting and is part of developing the training and system for consultation within Wisconsin as well as a pilot for consultation within Birth to 3. She also currently provides consultation, training and reflective supervision to mental health consultants and consultant mentors as well as professionals and policy makers working directly with infants, toddlers, young children and their families.
Abby Halloran, LCSW, IMH-E® is a Reflective Mentor for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. Ms. Halloran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice at Creating Space in Madison, where she provides psychotherapy for young children, families, and adults. Ms. Halloran specializes in working with families who have experienced trauma and is drawn to supporting caregivers of all kinds. She is nationally rostered as a clinician and supervisor in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and is endorsed as a Wisconsin CPP Trainer. Ms. Halloran has a Master’s degree in Social Work, is a graduate of the UW Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program and is endorsed by the Wisconsin Alliance of Infant Mental Health as an Infant Mental Health Mentor. She provides Reflective Supervision, Consultation, and Mentoring to professionals working in mental health, early childhood education, and home visiting.
Anne Heintzelman, MS, CCC-SLP, IMH- E® serves as a Reflective Practice Mentor and Instructor for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program in the areas of communication development, developmental screening and assessment and autism. She is a Clinical Associate Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and he is a graduate of the Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health Certificate Program in 2011. She has been a speech/language pathologist for 34 years, specializing in early communication development in the context of early relationships between infants, young children and caregivers. Anne’s clinical and research interests are in early communication and social development, parent-child interaction, and on infant, early childhood and family mental health. She worked 25 years as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and as a Senior Clinical Speech Pathologist in the Pediatric Specialty Clinics at the Waisman Center University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She was the speech/language pathologist on interdisciplinary teams in Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities Clinic, Newborn Follow-up Clinic, Neuromotor Development Clinic, Down Syndrome Clinic, Feeding Clinic, Fragile X Clinic, and FAS Clinic. She served as the discipline training coordinator in speech and language for the WI Maternal Child Health-Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (MCH-LEND) program form 1995 through 2013, and as the project coordinator for the Assessment of Early Intervention Outcomes Project for young Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Wisconsin Sound Beginnings/Wisconsin Department of Health Services from 2008-2013. Anne provides reflective consultation for individuals throughout Wisconsin and for the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health Reflective Supervision Learning Collaborative.
Kathleen Hipke, PhD, IMH-E® provides Reflective Clinical Consultant for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program and instruction in the areas of therapeutic and supportive interventions for infants, young children and their families, including the areas of emotion coaching and addressing sleep disorders. Dr. Hipke is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Clinically she specializes in infant and early childhood mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and pediatric psychology. Professional interests include expanding the reach of mental health services and supports for young children and their families through consultation, professional training, and program development. Kathleen’s journey to Wisconsin was a meandering one, starting on the west coast (UCLA) and traveling though the desert (Arizona State University) and Chicago (Children’s Memorial Hospital) before landing on a hobby farm where she enjoys critters, plants and family.
Myra McNair, LMFT provides Reflective Mentoring for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program and provides instruction for the program on historical trauma. Myra is the owner and founder of Anesis Family Therapy in Madison, Wisconsin. She is a Marriage and Family Therapist, Trauma Specialist and Hypnotherapist. Myra has a Bachelor of Art in Biology and a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy with specialties in addiction, depression, anxiety, infant mental health, parent/child attachment, marriage counseling and trauma. One of Myra’s biggest passions is working with diverse families and individuals. Using a family systems lens, Myra uses psychoanalytic theory and a narrative therapy approach. Centering concepts from the West African Adinkra symbols – the Sankofa bird “to go back and get it” teaches us that we must understand where we come from to move forward. Once we have that understanding we can plant seeds of understanding and healing to the next generation. Myra is trained in (EMDR) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Hypnotherapy, (TF-CBT) Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, (CPP) Child Parent Psychotherapy, Brainspotting and Infant Mental Health. Myra is a community coordinator for the ACT, Adults and Children Together, Raising Safe Families Program and provides training for community workers and agencies in the ACT curriculum, a Mentor and Consultant for the UW Infant Mental Health Program and an Adjunct Professor for the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Edgewood College. Building and training others in the field of mental health is something that Myra is devoted to. Myra is a 2017 “M List” recipient as a Health Innovator, 2020’s In Business Magazine’s “40 under 40” and 2022’s Brava Magazines “Woman 2 Watch”. Other awards include Black Chamber of Commerce 2020 “Eagle Award”, Nami of Dane County 2020 “Mental Health Trailblazer” and Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health 2020 “Spirit Award”.
Lana Nenide, MS, IMH-E® provides Reflective Mentoring for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program as well as instruction. Ms. Nenide is the Director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health where she leads state implementation of the Pyramid Model for social and emotional competence, supervises program staff, develops trainings, and provides technical assistance and consultation.
Jen Perfetti, LPC, IMH-E® provides Reflective Mentoring and Reflective Clinical Consultation for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. She also provides instruction on the topics of transition to parenthood, psychosocial stages of pregnancy and perinatal mental health. Ms. Perfetti completed her clinical training in Counseling Psychology at Northwestern University, and is a Licensed Counselor and an Endorsed Infant Mental Health Clinician. She founded Luna Perinatal Counseling in 2005, a psychotherapy practice focused on serving women and couples during the pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting periods. She is also the Clinical and Professional Development Coordinator with the UW Department of Psychiatry Parent-Infant Mental Health Programs, including the CDC funded Prevention Research Center Core Research Project “Addressing Postpartum Depression in WI Home Visiting programs.” Ms. Perfetti provides professional development to Home Visitors and Clinicians in efforts to increase supports focused on maternal mental health and mother-infant relationships in underserved counties across the state. Ms. Perfetti provides Reflective Mental Health Consultation to Public Health Madison and Dane County and to projects affiliated with the WI Alliance for Infant Mental Health. She lives in Madison with her two children who guide her in her work every day.
Samantha L. Wilson, PhD, IMH-E® provides Reflective Clinical Consultation for licensed mental health professionals enrolled in the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. Dr. Wilson is licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She provides expanded developmental screening, referral, and follow-up for children in the first year following international adoption, along with community education and agency collaboration/consultation, for the International Adoption Clinic in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Wilson has taught course content and provided reflective consultation in the Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Certificate Program since the program’s inception.
Julia Yeary, LCSW, IMH-E® provides Reflective Mentoring for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. She has been an advocate for children and their families since graduating from the University of Hawaii in 1980 with her Master’s in Social Work. Much of her work has been dedicated to military families, motivated by Julia’s experience growing up as a child in a military family and raising her own children in a military family. Julia works to establish stronger support for families and their very young children experiencing stress and trauma. She provides training and consultation for communities throughout the country and has authored several chapters related to parent-infant/early childhood mental health. Julia was honored to receive the Military Children’s Dr. Mary M. Keller Award for Distinguished Contributions to Science from the Military Child Education Coalition in 2022. Julia is a graduate fellow of the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program and is rostered in Child-Parent Psychotherapy. Julia has met the requirements for Infant Mental Health (IMH) Endorsement® for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health as a Mentor in both Clinical and Policy. She is very active with the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health (WI-AIMH).
Carrie Young, LCSW provides Reflective Mentoring for the IECFMH Capstone Certificate Program. She received her BSW from Winona State University with a minor in Studio Art in 2005 and her Master’s Degree in Social Work with an emphasis on mental health from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. She is nationally rostered as a Child-Parent Psychotherapist and has 10 years of clinical experience treating young children with trauma histories. Carrie primarily worked with foster and adopted youth and their families in both outpatient and in-home settings. She has provided clinical supervision and mentored master’s level clinicians as well as been a guest speaker at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the School of Social Work on treating children who have experienced trauma. Carrie is currently working with the Parent-Infant Mental Health Programs in UW Department of Psychiatry where she is assisting with the delivery of professional development series to support Home Visitors in the use of the Brief Parent-Child Early Relationship Assessment (B-ERA) and conducting assessments of maternal mood, parenting stress and trauma history in the in-home setting, as well as supporting the home visitors in the use of video replay in their work. In addition, Carrie is currently providing reflective consultation to a home visiting program in Milwaukee, WI through the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health. She graduated from the UW Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate in 2015.
Co-Founder: Linda Tuchman-Ginsberg, PhD was a Co-Founder of the UW Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Linda Tuchman-Ginsberg, PhD, Earned her BS in Psychology, MS in Behavior Disabilities, and PhD in Special Education, with a focus on early childhood, all from UW-Madison. Dr. Tuchman-Ginsberg is a co-founder of the UW Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program along with Dr. Roseanne Clark. She served as co-director of the Program for a decade and retired from that role in 2019. She has a background in education with the focus of her doctoral studies in the field of disabilities, specializing in early intervention/early childhood, parent partnerships and professional development. Dr. Tuchman-Ginsberg worked at the UW-Madison Waisman Center for over 30 years where she served as Program Director of the Early Childhood and Education Professional Development Program. She directed several projects related to early childhood professional development, autism, policy development and system building. This includes 25 years with the Wisconsin Birth to 3 Professional Development Program. Her commitment to the Certificate Program grew from the recognition that parent-infant/early childhood mental health concepts and content have been largely missing in university preparation as well as continuing education programs for most professionals who work with young children and their families. After retiring from her position at the Waisman in June 2013, she moved to the Department of Psychiatry to continue to Co-Direct the Capstone Certificate Program in Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health and support the Wisconsin Child-Parent Psychotherapy Learning Community. In recent years, she expanded her role in the Parent-Infant/Early Childhood Programs in the Department of Psychiatry to join the Supportive Practice Team of the Innovations in Early Relational Screening, Assessment and Support in Home Visiting Project and the UW Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Consultation team to provide Reflective Consultation to UW Campus Childcare Programs. She continues to serve as a Reflective Mentor, teacher and consultant for the Capstone Certificate Program and provides Reflective Consultation through the Consultation Team. She has been involved in policy and advocacy for young children and families, including the Infant/Toddler Collective Impact Team of the WI Office of Children’s Mental Health and helping to bring the Pyramid Model and Newborn Hearing Screening to Wisconsin. In 2020, she was awarded the James R. Ryan, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health.