Dr Greer Kirshenbaum PhD is a neuroscientist, infant and family sleep specialist and doula. Greer’s company, Nurture Neuroscience, is on a mission to transform the future of health with a nurture revolution in infancy. Greer wants families and perinatal practitioners to understand how early caregiving experience can boost mental wellness by shaping babies’ brains through simple intuitive enriching experiences in pregnancy, birth and infancy. Greer works with families to support infant sleep, teaches courses, provides consultations in pregnancy and infancy and is a birth and postpartum doula. She is currently facilitating an Infant Sleep Educator course with Bebo Mia.

Greer has a BSc in Neuroscience from Dalhousie University and a PhD in Medical Science and Neuroscience from the University of Toronto. Greer completed a postdoctoral fellowship and was an assistant professor at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.  Greer studied: psychodynamic thinking and practice at New York University Medical School Institute for Psychoanalytic Education.  Greer took courses in infant-parent relationships and mental health at Yale University Child Study Center Minding the Baby Program, The Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and The Hospital for Sick Children. Greer trained as a Doula with bebo mia. Greer trained as a life coach with the Center for Applied Neuroscience.