Episode 44: How our current approach to postpartum care affects Black and Indigenous Mothers, with Reketta Peterson, Perinatal Mental Health Therapist and BIPOC Health Equity Consultant

In today’s episode, Reketta Peterson, licensed professional counselor and sex therapist with a certification in perinatal mental health, and BIPOC health equity consultant, is coming to the show. 

Reketta is the owner and lead clinician at Arise Counseling, LLC. She is also the principal consultant of RSP Consulting, LLC. Reketta has spoken on national and local platforms on the importance of developing social and emotional learning skills to combat burnout and reduce biases that lead to the disconnect between providers and clients with intersectional identities.

Reketta accepted to come to the show today to talk to us about how our current approach to postpartum care affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color who are giving birth. self-soothing. We talked about health disparities and why is that.

We talked about:

👉 Health disparities among birthing people

👉 The effect it has on birth mortalities

👉 How health care providers should be educated to have a better inter-cultural approach

👉 Health disparities regarding infant care and the effects it has

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Organizations Available for indigenous birthing persons: https://www.alaskabirthcollective.org/
• Organizations Available for Black birthing persons: https://helloseven.org/ and https://thelovelandfoundation.org/about/

Connect with Reketta:

• BIPOC health equity consulting company: https://www.rspconsultingllc.com/ 
• Reketta’s mental health care practice: https://www.arisecounselingllc.com/ 

 

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