A Clinician’s Guide to Understanding Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Presented by: Stephanie Mitchell, DNP, CNM CPM
6-7pm CST January 21, 2026
1 FREE General Knowledge CE Credit
Connecting to the Grand Challenges in Social Work:
- Closing the Health Gap
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective #1:
Briefly, the history of midwifery in the US and Alabama
Learning Objective #2:
Innovations in modern midwifery care models
Learning Objective #3:
The utility of social work and midwifery in modern care models
Speaker
Stephanie Mitchell, DNP, CNM CPM
Dr. Stephanie Mitchell is the founder of Birth Sanctuary Gainesville (501(c)(3)), a free-standing, midwifery-led birth center in Sumter County, Alabama, providing comprehensive prenatal care and midwifery services for labor and birth at the center as well as support for families planning home births. She is also a Certified Nurse-Midwife at WAWC (formerly West Alabama Women’s Center) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she provides full-scope midwifery care. Prior to founding Birth Sanctuary, Stephanie practiced in Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, in full-scope, collaborative OB-GYN/midwifery and academic clinical settings, and previously worked as both a labor and delivery nurse and a pediatric nurse. After relocating to Alabama with her family in 2020, she expanded her scope of practice by becoming a Certified Professional Midwife, enabling her to provide midwifery care and attend births in out-of-hospital settings.