Natalie R. Stevens, PhD

Natalie R. Stevens, PhD, is faculty in the Center for Women’s Behavioral and Mental Health and serves as Research Director of the Center. Stevens’ research focuses on the treatment of trauma-related disorders in the perinatal period integrating behavioral, medical, and community-based approaches. Stevens is also the behavioral health research scientist for Rush’s Maternal-Infant Community Health Collaborative, a research group that focuses on improving the health of mothers and babies from Chicago’s Westside who have been affected by trauma or other adversity.

Stevens’ clinical work broadly focuses on providing behavioral health interventions and treatment to pregnant and postpartum women and their infants in order to improve postpartum adjustment, social support, maternal-infant attachment, and reduce the effects of anxiety, stress and trauma.