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 something you’ve carried for years, we are here to support you. Our team provides specialized, comprehensive psychiatric care across the reproductive lifespan — including thoughtful medication management during hormonal transitions, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and in the treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
We support individuals and families through fertility treatment, adoption, surrogacy, high-risk pregnancy, NICU hospitalization, perinatal loss, and unplanned pregnancy — recognizing the emotional and biological layers each experience carries. We understand that reproductive mental health is shaped by powerful hormonal shifts, neurological changes, relational transitions, and lived experience.
Our approach is both holistic and evidence-based, offering collaborative, nuanced care that honors the full complexity of your journey.
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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, Jennifer worked as a pediatric and neonatal critical care nurse. In that role, she became a passionate advocate for integrative maternal mental health care across obstetric, neonatal, and pediatric settings. Her clinical experience formed the foundation for her research on the intersection of maternal mental health and neonatal critical illness, including perinatal loss, and she has presented on the treatment of grief in pregnancy at the Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief.
Jennifer founded Nested to provide integrative, evidence-based psychiatric care for mothers and families navigating the complex transitions of reproductive and perinatal mental health. She is deeply committed to collaborating with clinicians, birth workers, and community partners to provide comprehensive, relationship-centered psychiatric care.
Meet Jennifer Blanco Kenny
Founder of NESTED PERINATAL PSYCHIATRY
Jennifer Blanco is the founder of Nested Psychiatry and an ANCC board-certified Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry specializing in Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry. She graduated from New York University and completed clinical training in psychiatry at New York University, Bellevue Hospital, and Zucker Hillside Hospital in the Department of Perinatal Psychiatry. During her training, Jennifer was honored with the Postpartum Support International Cynthia Wachenheim Memorial Training Scholar Award and the Selini Maternal Mental Health Intensive Training Scholar Award.
Jennifer has expertise in both psychotherapy and medication management across the reproductive lifespan — including care during hormonal transitions, preconception, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause, as well as for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She has provided specialized perinatal mental health care at Columbia University as part of the Women’s Mental Health team, embedded within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in perinatal and parental mental health centers.
Blending her extensive clinical expertise with her lived experience as a mother, daughter, sister, and friend, Jennifer partners with clients across the reproductive lifespan. Her approach is collaborative, nuanced, and grounded in a deep understanding of the hormonal, neurological, and social-emotional changes that shape mental health during these transitions. By integrating each client’s lived experience with hormonal and neurological insights, she creates individualized, holistic treatment plans that combine thoughtful diagnostic clarity, careful medication management when indicated, and therapy or community-based supports — ensuring care that is comprehensive, compassionate, and fully responsive to the complexity of each person’s journey.
Gabrielle Ranger-Murdock
Scholar in Residence
Gabbie Ranger-Murdock, DNP, PMHNP is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice who serves as Scholar in Residence. She specializes in reproductive psychiatry and the mental health care of individuals and families across the perinatal period and other seasons of profound change shaped by reproductive and hormonal transitions, including fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause.
In practice, Gabbie is collaborative, affirming, and down-to-earth. She believes medication can be incredibly helpful, but it’s never the whole story, and she prioritizes helping clients understand themselves with clarity and compassion. She integrates evidence-based approaches like CBT and IPT, and she is committed to culturally responsive, intersectionality-informed care where clients feel seen, respected, and genuinely partnered with. Babies are always welcome in her sessions.
Gabbie has supported perinatal clients across community and academic settings, including New Alternatives for Children, Columbia University’s Women’s Mental Health team embedded within Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Brooklyn Parent Support, and she regularly presents on women’s health and perinatal mental health topics.
Gabbie brings a global perspective to healing and a strong belief in care that honors identity, context, and community. She shows up not only as a clinician and educator, but as a human being; partnering with you with warmth, honesty, and steady support as you move toward wellness.
Gabbie’s path into mental health has always been grounded in caring for families across seasons of vulnerability and change. She earned her bachelor’s degree at New York University, where she studied psychology and child & adolescent mental health. She began her clinical career as a pediatric registered nurse, work that shaped her deep respect for the emotional worlds of parents and children alike.
She later completed both her Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice at Columbia University. Gabbie completed advanced clinical training in Women’s Mental Health at Columbia University, working within obstetric and gynecologic settings. She also completed advanced clinical training in reproductive psychiatry with Brooklyn Parent Support, where she co-created and co-facilitates a weekly support group for Black/Latinx parents.
Gabbie is also a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Graduate Nursing at Pace University, where her scholarship centers on reproductive psychiatry and perinatal families. She previously taught Developmental Psychology as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University. In her Scholar in Residence role, she brings research opportunities and community-rooted programming into the Nested community.
Alison Birdsey
Midwife
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Alison is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse-Midwife specializing in reproductive psychiatry and hormone-informed mental healthcare across the reproductive lifespan. She provides compassionate, evidence-based psychiatric care for individuals navigating preconception, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy loss, PMDD, and the menopausal transition.
She believes exceptional care is collaborative and relationship-centered. Alison works closely with patients, birth workers, OB/GYNs, primary care clinicians, therapists, fertility specialists, and other members of each client's healthcare team to provide coordinated, comprehensive care that supports both emotional wellness and overall health.
Drawing from her dual expertise as both a midwife and psychiatric nurse practitioner, as well as her own experience as a mother, Alison creates a warm, validating space where clients feel genuinely heard, understood, and supported. She believes that every individual deserves thoughtful, specialized psychiatric care that honors the complexity of the reproductive journey and helps them feel more like themselves again. Whether navigating family building, pregnancy, postpartum, or the hormonal transitions of midlife, Alison is committed to helping clients thrive through compassionate, evidence-based, hormone-informed care.
With more than 20 years of experience as a Certified Nurse-Midwife, Alison brings a uniquely integrated perspective to reproductive mental healthcare. After decades of caring for women through pregnancy, birth, and reproductive health, she developed a deep appreciation for the profound connection between hormones, life transitions, and emotional well-being. This foundation allows her to thoughtfully bridge reproductive medicine and psychiatry, recognizing that mental health is deeply influenced by the biological, psychological, and hormonal changes experienced throughout the reproductive lifespan.
Alison provides individualized psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and evidence-based psychotherapy, partnering with each client to develop treatment plans that are both clinically sound and aligned with their personal values and goals. She has a special interest in the psychiatric impact of reproductive hormone fluctuations, including PMDD, fertility treatment, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause, and is passionate about helping clients better understand the connection between their hormones and mental health while empowering them to make informed decisions about treatment.
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.
