NAIMAH SALEEM, MS, MA, LPC, R-DMT, PMH-C Lead Perinatal Behavioral Health Specialist
Naimah Saleem, MS, MA, LPC, R-DMT, PMH-C, joined the Developing Brain Institute at Children’s National in June 2022 as a Perinatal Behavioral Health Specialist on the Mommy&Me team, and in October 2023 she was promoted to Lead Perinatal Behavioral Health Specialist. Naimah is a Washington, D.C., native, a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor and a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist with over nine years of experience in the behavioral health field. She has received extensive and advanced maternal mental health training and has Perinatal Mental Health Certification from Postpartum Support International. Naimah received her Master of Science from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in Dance/Movement
Therapy and Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling and Wellness from New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She has worked in clinical positions facilitating individual and group therapy. Naimah has worked with children, adolescents, adults, geriatric and perinatal populations, as well as with individuals experiencing acute mental health illnesses, complex trauma and developmental disorders. Her professional career has included working in schools, in-patient and outpatient psychiatry, and Washington, D.C.- and New York-based behavioral health agencies and hospitals. Naimah is passionate about fostering healing and ending the stigma associated with mental health in the African American community. She is honored to continue empowering, educating and supporting the perinatal population in her leadership role on the Mommy&Me team.
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Research, Education and Innovation Week 2024 awards
Adon J, Assefa H. Carrillo M, Chafin M, Dampha M, Saleem N, Kang R, Petersen C, Brechot C, Henderson D, Andescavage N, Bassa MM, Keller J, Le HN, Limperopoulos C. Drivers of maternal wellness in a randomized control trial of perinatal mental health in low resourced Black and African American pregnant women. Children’s National Hospital 14th Annual Research, Education and Innovation Week. Washington, D.C. April 2024. (High-scoring poster)