Shelly N. Singh, LCSW-QS
(she/her/ella)
Shelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience in the social services industry. She has worked in child welfare, medical social work, substance abuse, home health care, geriatric case management, outpatient and inpatient mental health, utilization management and with special needs populations. She has been blessed with those robust opportunities that added so much to who she is as a human and a professional. She is also a survivor of birth trauma, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression, and postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder.
The birth of her only child, her daughter, changed her life, the way she practices, and her professional mission. She understands mental health and the role of social work from a completely different perspective after her experiences with postpartum mental illness and trauma. Maternal mental health became a platform in which she could use her voice and role as a social worker and survivor to advocate, effect change in the way health care is provided and empower other women who experience a similar journey. Through her greatest pain she found empowerment and a new purpose. This year, Shelly joined the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline as the Associate Clinical Supervisor and she is delighted to work alongside an incredible team of colleagues whose mission and purpose align with mine.
In her spare time, Shelly enjoys traveling with her daughter and husband, playing board games, reading and spending time with friends in neat little coffee shops and tea houses. She finds joy and grounding by immersing herself in other cultures through baking and cooking…it truly feeds the soul.
