Selena Brazley, LMSW is the Behavioral and Mental Health Coordinator at Healthy Start Brooklyn housed under the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene — where she provides individual and group psychotherapy to moms and birthing people preconception through postpartum, supports the doulas of the By My Side Birth Support Program & the Citywide Doula Initiative, and hosts workshops on the warning signs of maternal mortality. Selena has a Bachelors in Psychology from the University at Buffalo and a Masters in Social Work from Smith College. Selena is passionate about birth equity and believes firmly in the power of communal healing. Outside of work, Selena is also a God mother, a cat mother, and a plant mother.