Associate Professor Pamela Douglas (Adjunct)
Pam has been a practicing as a GP since 1987, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is Medical Director of the Possums Clinic, Brisbane www.possumsonline.com; Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Centre for Health Practice Innovation, Griffith University; and Senior Lecturer, Discipline of General Practice, The University of Queensland.
Pam has specialised clinical interests in early life, mental health, and women’s health. She is qualified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (1994-2004; 2012 ongoing) and is an infant feeding and breastfeeding medicine specialist. She is trained in the delivery of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Her research focuses on clinical support and optimisation of parent-baby neurohormonal synchrony regardless of feeding method, and integrates the latest medical science, neuroscience, lactation science, evolutionary medicine, attachment psychology, and contextual behavioural science. She is also author of a popular new book for parents, The discontented little baby book: all you need to know about feeds, sleep and crying, which health professionals find useful too because of its detailed exploration of real-life cases.
Renee Keogh
Renee is a Registered Nurse and Lactation Consultant with fifteen years experience working in Neonatal Intensive Care units in Sydney, Canberra and Darwin. She completed a Graduate certificate in neonatal intensive care nursing in 2004, and qualified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 2010. Renee offers holistic care not just for breastfeeding problems, but also for problems of unsettled infant behavior, feeds and sleep throughout the first year of life.
Anya Snyder
Anya is an endorsed Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specializing in perinatal mental health. Formerly in private practice in the U.S., she focused on treating birth trauma, perinatal loss and postnatal mood and anxiety disorders. She is Possums certified, and especially compelled by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy’s capacity for healing and empowering new parents facing mental health challenges.