SIMINA ANGELESCU
AFFILIATION: THE ROMANIAN MATERNOLOGY ASSOCIATION, ROMANIA
Simina Angelescu is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, the manager of the Franco-Romanian “BebeBienvenu” Association and vice-president of the Romanian Maternology Association.
She is certified in Maternal Mental Health with Postpartum Support International, USA (2019).
Simina started her professional activity in 2002 as a researcher in the field of Human Performance Psychology (high performance sports) and trained as a parent - child / adolescent psychotherapist.
She worked also as a psychotherapist with an NGO offering support for abandoned children, developing her abilities in the field of attachment pathology and developmental trauma. She developed a special interest in prenatal psychology, birth psychology and the parent-child relationship.
Simina is trained also as group psychotherapist in Psychodrama (member of the Romanian Classical Psychodrama Association) and specialized in Drama-therapy and NeuroDramatic Play with dr Sue Jennings (UK).
Since 2007 she’s focused her activity and enriched her professional experience in the field of Perinatal Psychology, by expanding her private practice with psychological counselling services for pregnant women, psychotherapy for women in postnatal difficulty and their families.
As a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator she organised groups and educational workshops for future parents: healthy pregnancy and childbirth, natural parenting courses, as well as experiential groups for pregnant women on prenatal bonding.
Simina specialised in 2015 in Clinical Maternology (in France) - the science of the mother-baby relationship that focuses on the therapy of maternal difficulties and perinatal emotional and mood disorders - in order to initiate in Romania prevention and psychotherapy programs for pregnancy, parents with postpartum difficulties and their children in the firsts years of life. For several years she has been organising and facilitating postpartum emotional support groups for mothers and babies.
Since 2017 Simina is a member of ISPPM and organised a Romanian working group on perinatal psychological support.
Simina is a member of the Global Prenatal Sciences Partnership and co-organiser of the 1st World Prenatal Sciences Congress: Prenatal Sciences, the Human-Earth Connection and Life Sustainability (6- 9October 2022).