Sahciko Oshio, PhD has a private practice mainly focused on women’s care for Japanese speaking women. She has been providing midwifery and women’s healthcare in various settings (private obstetrician’s office, my own private clinic, and hospital-based midwifery practices) in the past 20 years and recently added mental healthcare to the same population. Her main interest is women’s reproductive mental healthcare.
She is a novice as a mental healthcare provider. She hopes to learn from the leaders and fellow participants the arts of mental healthcare. She would like to develop a network of resources she can turn to and send patients to as appropriate for their needs, and in turn, she would like to be a resource for Puget Sound area women’s healthcare providers and birth communities.
Psychiatric mental healthcare can be more effective when paired with the content-specific expertise of specialists in various settings. For example, she is intimately familiar with experiences of infertility treatments, miscarriages and still births. She has supported patients through traumatic birth experiences and knows the reality of having a challenging newborn infant at home. By adding collaborative care provision skills, she can support perinatal/women’s healthcare providers with stronger mental health component.
Mental healthcare will become routine component for midwives and women’s healthcare providers.