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Kara Shelman

Centimano Counseling

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Kara is a clinically licensed social worker with over 15 years’ experience in maternal mental health. The focus of her work includes supporting families throughout their reproductive journey that could include, infertility, loss due to miscarriage, stillbirth or termination, and pregnancy/mothering after loss.

Kara believes that the family you came from can impact the family that you are creating, and her therapeutic approaches pulls from family systems, trauma, and cognitive behavioral methods.

Kara graduated from the University of Iowa in 2006 with her Master’s Degree in Public Health where she specialized in Maternal, Child and Family Health. During that time, she worked with Dr. Michael O’Hara and Dr. Scott Stuart—prominent researchers and clinicians in postpartum mood disorders. In 2009, she received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas. She received her Certificate of Completion in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders through Postpartum Support International in 2014 and her Certificate in Perinatal Mental Health in 2022.

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