Meet Our Team

Dr. Celeste St. John-Larkin is a Child and Adolescent and Perinatal psychiatrist with a passion for perinatal and infant mental health. She welcomes the opportunity to share her clinical expertise statewide as the Project Director for Colorado PROSPER. As the Anschutz Chair in Perinatal Mental Health at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, she has worked to broaden access to support for new parents and infants across our campus and community for more than a decade. She is the medical director for the Healthy Expectations Perinatal Mental Health Program, providing group therapy during pregnancy and postpartum with a focus on the parent-infant relationship in the Colorado Center for Women’s Behavioral Health and Wellness. The program has expanded from one postpartum group to include a spectrum of care, and a specialized group for African American mothers and infants, Black Mamas Circle, led by Dr. Shaleah Dardar. This grew out of involvement with the community focused Black Health Initiative at Children’s Hospital, which has a goal of decreasing maternal and infant health disparities. She is committed to community efforts to improve child and perinatal mental health, including serving on the executive committee of the Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society and in 2023 was appointed to the CDPHE Maternal Health Task Force in 2023. She previously worked integrated Ob and Midwifery settings at the PROMISE and Young Mothers and Families Clinics. Her other area of expertise has been integrated mental health in primary care and consultation to community primary care providers through CoPPCAP, pediatric psychiatry access program. She joined Project CLIMB in 2012, teaching and consulting with pediatric providers, residents and multidisciplinary students in the Child Health Clinic,  which serves a diverse community. Celeste grew up in a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, then studied history at Northwestern University, and attended Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine in the rural physician program. She completed residency and child psychiatry fellowship at the University of Colorado.