Shoshanna Rome was born and raised in Japan and grew up in a multicultural and bilingual home. She received her masters of science in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014, and continued on as a fellow at the University's Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health Capstone program, and has completed extensive training on maternal mental health through Postpartum International Support and more.  

Shoshanna has been supporting families long before becoming a therapist. She first served as a birth and postpartum doula, experiences that deeply shaped the way she understands the emotional and relational landscape of early parenthood. She later worked as a mental health counselor at a community clinic for over eight years, where she supported clients from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. Shoshanna received specialized training in, DBT, trauma, complex trauma, as well as mood disorders, and found particular fulfillment working with families and mothers. She eventually became the coordinator for the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy program, running groups and supervising both interns and fellow therapists.

With her combined experience as a doula and family therapist, Shoshanna found herself increasingly drawn to the field of maternal mental health. Throughout her career, she saw again and again how underserved and under-researched this area remains—and how deeply it affects mothers, families, and communities when support isn’t available.

Shoshanna also served as a mental health counselor and consultant for Tompkins County Family Court in upstate New York, collaborating with lawyers, social workers, and judges to explore how trauma weaves through family systems and across generations.

In 2023, she opened her private practice with a clear purpose: to offer compassionate, evidence-informed care to mothers and families navigating the emotional challenges of pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Her commitment to this work only deepened after her own experience becoming a first-time mother during the COVID-19 pandemic and, now, as a mother of two. Shoshanna’s approach is grounded in empathy, lived experience, evidence based treatment, and the countless stories of the mothers and families she’s had the honor to support.

In her free time Shoshanna loves to tend to her vegetable garden, forage wild plants and mushrooms, spend time with her children, and is starting to take up ceramics.