Perinatal mental health support in New Hampshire

The specialist warm line for perinatal mental health. Trained volunteers listen, answer questions, and connect you with local resources and PSI's NH coordinators. Not a crisis line — for emergencies use 988 or 911.

• Call or text
• English & Spanish
• Local referrals
• Support for partners too

1-833-TLC-MAMA. Free, confidential support from trained counselors 24/7, before, during, and after pregnancy. Run by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.

• 24/7
• Call or text
• English & Spanish
• Interpreter services

New Hampshire's 24/7 front door to mental health crisis care, including mobile crisis teams that can come to you. Use it when things can't wait for an appointment — including postpartum crises.

• 24/7
• Mobile crisis teams
• Follow-up connection to care

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center offers psychiatric consultation and treatment focused on pregnancy and the postpartum period — one of the few dedicated perinatal psychiatry resources in northern New England. Referrals typically come through your OB, midwife, or primary care provider.

• Perinatal psychiatry
• Medication consultation
• Provider referral usually required

Ask your OB or midwife to refer you; wait times vary.

A program for pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorders, integrating prenatal care, addiction treatment, mental health support, and peer recovery in one place.

• Pregnancy + substance use
• Integrated care
• Peer support

NH's ten CMHCs serve every catchment area in the state and accept Medicaid. None is perinatal-specific, but all treat postpartum depression and anxiety, and several have clinicians with perinatal experience — ask specifically when you call.

• Medicaid accepted
• Sliding fee
• Therapy & psychiatry
• Ask for perinatal experience

Find your center by town on the Meridian catchment map.

Postpartum Support International's searchable directory of perinatal mental health providers, filterable by state, telehealth, specialty, and insurance. The best single place to find NH clinicians who list perinatal training.

• Search by state
• Telehealth filters
• Free to use

Look for the PMH-C credential — a certification in perinatal mental health.

Meridian's own NH therapist finder. Filter by specialty, insurance, and region, then ask prospective therapists directly about perinatal training and experience.

• NH-verified listings
• Insurance filters
• Region filters

Free, facilitated online support groups — including groups for pregnancy and postpartum mood support, NICU parents, loss, dads and partners, and BIPOC parents. No diagnosis or referral needed.

• Free
• Online
• Groups for partners
• Loss & NICU groups

Local centers offering parent support groups, home visiting programs, play groups, and concrete help (diapers, car seats, connection to services). Practical support is mental health support — these centers reduce the isolation and overwhelm that feed perinatal mood disorders.

• Parent groups
• Home visiting
• Free services
• No referral needed

Many NH hospitals run new-parent groups, breastfeeding support, and postpartum emotional support programming through their maternity or childbirth education departments. Offerings change often — call the hospital where you delivered and ask what's currently running.

• New-parent groups
• Lactation support
• Usually free

Massachusetts General Hospital's reproductive psychiatry center publishes one of the most trusted plain-language libraries on perinatal mental health and medication questions — a good site to read before an appointment.

• Evidence summaries
• Medication library
• Clinician-written

Free, confidential, evidence-based answers about medication and other exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding, by phone, text, or chat — run by teratology specialists. Bring what you learn to your prescriber.

• Free expert consults
• Medication questions
• Fact sheets