Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, LP is a training and supervising licensed Psychoanalyst 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.

Parry Thompson is the co-founder at NAPS. She obtained her B.A. from New York University in psychology with a minor in child and adolescent mental studies. Parry started working as the Research Assistant for NAPS in 2018. Inspired by the program’s initiatives, Parry began working as the Patient Care Coordinator at Downtown Women OBGYN to gain deeper clinical understanding of working with the mother-infant bond. Her initiative, dedication and in-depth understanding of NAPS programming earned her the position of co-founder. Parry leads research and development initiatives and patient and practice management. Parry’s interest in the cycle of life extends to palliative care and the dying process. Parry is a labor and postpartum doula and currently working towards her certification as death doula.