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Dr. Venus Mahmoodi

Sunday, October 6, 2024
Dr. Venus Mahmoodi
Dr. Venus Mahmoodi is an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University in New York City. She provides clinical care to women across the reproductive lifespan in the Women’s and Reproductive Mental Health (WARM) Program. She is also a clinical researcher in the Early Neuroimaging, Neuroimmune, and Neuropsychology (Early N3) Lab where her work focuses on trajectories of prenatal depressive symptoms and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Furthermore, Dr. Mahmoodi’s primary research focuses on Muslim women both from an Islamic psychology and Muslim mental health approach. She is interested in identifying Islamic conceptualizations of womanhood and motherhood. She also conducts research with Muslim mothers to understand what influences their mental health and mothering. Finally, she teaches courses in psychotherapy and perinatal mental health and mentors masters-level students. Dr. Mahmoodi completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Palo Alto University in California, with an emphasis in women’s neuroscience and reproductive health through a collaboration with Stanford University. She completed a pre-doctoral internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, where she focused on trauma treatment in children and adults, psychiatric inpatient care. Her postdoctoral training focused on providing mental health services to women and families experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, infertility, and perinatal loss.