Episode 11: Lisa Mennet of Perigee Fund on infant and maternal mental health
Lisa Mennet, PhD, LMHC, IMH-E® (IV) is the founder and anchors Perigee Fund in the values, insights, and experiences she has gained as an infant mental health therapist to families and children, a clinical educator, and a mentor to early childhood professionals. She is the Clinical Director at Cooper House and has witnessed not only the challenges that come with a lack of programming and resources but, more importantly, the powerful impact timely interventions can have in changing a child’s life trajectory. She began her clinical career at Ryther Child Center, then studied at the Center on Infant Mental Health at the UW, and was later a clinical instructor there. She’s taught infant mental health principles at the UW schools of Social Work and Nursing, and for the Washington DSHS. Lisa earned a certificate in child psychoanalytic psychotherapy from SPSI, and a doctorate in Infant Mental Health from UW. Her particular area of interest is the impact of trauma on early relationships.
