Hey, welcome back to preview lines podcast this is Sarah and today we know it is

Halloween season spooky scary everybody gets a little uncomfortable sometimes when we

bring up the P word psychiatry. So we are here to kind of break that down with one of our favorites, Dr. Claire Smith, she is the all-go-to reproductive

psychiatrist that's going to break this down and let me tell you, this is like

girlfriend-to-girlfriend chatting here so you going to realize there's no room for scary. So welcome Claire. Thank you. We are so glad to have you. Can you tell our

listeners a little bit about yourself and what brought you to this build.

So like Sarah said, my name is Claire Smith.

I'm originally from East Tennessee.

I went far away for college, came back to Tennessee for med school, and I was planning to do something totally different.

So for any medical or medical adjacent people out there planning to do pathology, which was about as opposite from psychiatrist you can get, and then at the very end of my clinical year in In my psychiatry rotation I stumbled across this field, reproductive

psychiatry that some people call perinatal psych and some people just call women's

mental health and completely changed my trajectory based on that.

And went to residency at the Medical University

of South Carolina and Charleston

and then did a fellowship there in reproductive psychiatry.

And that's where I work now on faculty.

And the reason, really why this shift happened that really rocked my world and led me to change course is, well, a couple of things.

One, I love women and treating women and I feel really happy in that space.

This field is also really nice because a lot of women,

most women do get better.

And my job is primarily to help normalize what they're going through and

if there's a way to help them feel better faster, that's my ultimate goal and to have a judgment-free zone to talk about all of their

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