Nested is passionate about providing personalized, supportive and empowering maternal mental health care.
Whether you are planning for pregnancy, pregnant, newly postpartum or an experienced parent, Nested is here to support you and help you navigate options for mental health treatment.
Working with parents and parents-to-be to cultivate wellness at all stages.
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Whether your concerns are new or have been around for a while, I am here to help. I offer specialized comprehensive psychiatric care, including medication management for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and during preconception, pregnancy and postpartum stages.
I have experience supporting families around adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatment, high risk pregnancy, NICU stays, perinatal loss and unplanned pregnancy. No matter your circumstances, I'm here to guide you with a blend of holistic and evidence-backed knowledge, to give you the support you need.
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She believes caring for mothers and mothers to be is an integral part of creating healthy families and communities.
Prior to her career in mental health she worked as a pediatric and neonatal critical care nurse. In her role Jennifer became an advocate for integrative maternal mental health care across obstetric, neonatal and pediatric medical care. Her experience became the foundation for her research examining the intersection of maternal mental health and neonatal critical illness/perinatal loss. She has presented on treatment of grief in pregnancy at Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief .
Jennifer created Nested Psychiatry to serve her community and surrounding areas after recognizing a gap in maternal mental health care. She is passionate about collaborating with clinicians, birth workers and community members to offer specialized psychiatric care.
Jennifer blends her extensive and highly specialized medical knowledge with her life experience as a mother, daughter, sister and friend to partner with you in your journey to wellness.
Meet Jennifer Kenny
an ANCC board certified nurse practitioner of psychiatry specializing in women’s mental health and reproductive psychiatry
Jennifer is an ANCC board certified Nurse Practitioner of Psychiatry specializing in Women's Mental Health. She completed clinical training in psychiatry at New York University, Bellevue Hospital, and Zucker Hillside Hospital in the Department of Perinatal Psychiatry. While training Jennifer was the recipient of the Postpartum Support International Cynthia Wachenheim Memorial Training Scholar Award and Selini Maternal Mental Health Intensive Training Scholar Award.
Jennifer has expertise in both psychotherapy and medication management across the reproductive lifespan. including for preconception, pregnant and postpartum patients. She has provided specialized care to perinatal patients at Columbia University as part of the Women's Mental Health team, embedded within The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and at Brooklyn Parent Support.
The journey to motherhood & beyond isn't only physical.
Nested Perinatal Psychiatry offers specialized medication management services to preconception, pregnant, and postpartum women. Partnering with and empowering mothers seeking mental health treatment.
