Kathleen Stanton, Ph.D.

Kathy Stanton, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist working in the Comprehensive Fetal Care Center and neonatal intensive care unit at Dell Children’s. Stanton specializes in infant and perinatal mental health.

Stanton earned her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, where her studies emphasized therapy and psychological assessment with children and families, integrated behavioral health, bilingual and multicultural practices, and trauma-informed care. She received her postdoctoral training at the UCSF Infant-Parent Program specializing in perinatal mental health, infant-parent psychotherapy, couples/co-parenting counseling, and infant and early childhood mental health consultation.

Stanton’s past areas of research and publication include work on maternal-fetal attachment and maternal mental health, the intersection of cultural values and mental health, trauma-informed care within schools, and family-based interventions for co-occurring obesity and mental illness.