Ashley Hanna-Morgan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) specializing in Perinatal Mental Health Disorders, as well as infertility, grief and loss. Ashley earned her Bachelor’s in English Literature at UCLA. After attending Baylor University for her Master’s in Social Work, Ashley taught parenting skills training in the home and provided therapy to children and adolescents with externalizing behavior disorders. With a soft spot for seniors from many wonderful experiences with her grandparents, Ashley subsequently worked in hospice for the next seven years, with a parallel stint writing for a winery in Sonoma. Creating recipes for wine-pairings was a life-affirming counterbalance! Ashley became passionate about helping others with Perinatal Mental Health disorders when she and her husband both worked through it personally after the birth of their first daughter. In 2016, she wrote the Afterglow Curriculum and started the first free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy based support group in Los Angeles for parents with Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. In 2017, she published a collection of poetry called I Gave Birth to My Heart that she hopes will throw back the curtains and shed some light on what Postpartum Depression and Anxiety actually feel like, as well as, most importantly, what the recovery looked like. She is still a volunteer for Postpartum Support International, and a therapist in private practice in Nevada and California, where she now lives with her husband, Jayson, and her daughters and inspiration, Emerie Violet & Aerelyn Jayne. When Ashley is not advocating for parents’ mental health, she loves to explore nature, practice yoga, experiment in the kitchen, read with a cup of tea, meditate, dance, and write.
