Founding professional circle
A separate pathway for independently licensed U.S. mental health professionals who may be willing to provide future virtual support to postpartum women—after verification, state authorization, and safety operations are in place. This is not an in-home service.
Express interestWho may apply
The founding list is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed professional counselors or mental health counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners with a current independent U.S. license. Trainees and associate-license holders are not eligible for future unsupervised care through this model.
Relevant training or experience is reviewed; interest alone is not represented as expertise.
A professional may serve only within their license, competence, authorization, and insurance.
Clinical care does not begin until operations can support consent, privacy, escalation, records, and complaints.
Verification ladder
Telehealth licensure generally follows the patient's physical location, and requirements vary by jurisdiction. The federal telehealth guidance also advises clinicians to confirm liability coverage for telehealth and every location served.
Confirm the applicant is the professional represented.
Check active status and public disciplinary information with the issuing board.
Confirm authorization in the state where the woman is physically located for each session.
Verify professional liability coverage includes volunteer telehealth and every jurisdiction served.
Complete informed-consent, privacy, records, crisis, mandatory-reporting, complaint, and referral protocols.
Reverify standing and authorization on a recurring schedule before a profile remains active.
Two future ways to serve
The founding circle may include professionals who choose to donate limited hours. A separate future Village Care Fund is intended to pay verified clinicians a fair, pre-disclosed rate for approved sessions for women facing financial barriers. Neither pathway is active yet, and participation in one will never require participation in the other.
VOLUNTEER PATH
Optional, bounded donated time with the same verification, scope, safety, privacy, and documentation standards as paid care.
FUNDED PATH
Future charitable funds pay the clinician for completed eligible sessions; donors never choose the recipient or direct clinical decisions.
See the proposed Care Fund →The Village After Birth does not currently practice medicine, psychotherapy, or counseling. A public launch of donated clinical care would require qualified legal and clinical review, appropriate entity and insurance decisions, state-by-state workflows, informed consent, secure technology, emergency coverage, and documented governance. A disclaimer by itself is not a substitute for those safeguards.