Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, LP is a training and supervising licensed Psychoanalyst, group psychotherapist and teaching faculty at the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York City.
Naghshineh has special expertise in the areas of reproductive and maternal mental health. She created and built NAPS, which she launched in 2014 at the renowned Downtown Women OBGYN practice in New York City (where she is the Director of Reproductive and Perinatal Mental Health.
Naghshineh also attended the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis for her doctorate in Psychoanalysis (ABD), with her dissertation focusing on working with perinatal women in a group therapy setting within their obstetrics practices. She also completed group psychotherapy training at the Center for Group Studies in New York.
She began developing NAPS in response to her work as a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula. Her experience with women prenatal and postpartum and her deep understanding of their needs lent her to recognize the necessity in building an OBGYN in-house intervention system. To meet patient needs, she built a platform that troubleshoots common prenatal and postpartum concerns, while also offering effective mental health care and intervention.
Golzar also works as a psychoanalyst with patients in private practice.