Dr. Laurel M. Hicks is a Research Associate at the Renée Crown Wellness Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She completed a dual-title PhD in Social Work and Infant Mental Health at Wayne State University and a postdoctoral fellowship focused on perinatal depression and fetal programming at University of Denver, Department of Psychology. She brings 10 years of experience in collaborating on several large, multi-site and NIH-funded perinatal mental health research studies. Additionally, she has extensive clinical and research experience working with people in the perinatal period. Her expertise includes both design and implementation of peer-based interventions for individuals in the perinatal period as well as understanding the intersectionality of trauma and perinatal mood disorders. My work focuses on dyads with children from 0-3 years of age, particularly higher-risk populations, including those with interpersonal violence exposure, dyads experiencing poverty, dyads impacted by parental childhood trauma, and psychopathology.
