Holistic Perinatal & Mental Health Support

The MaMA Space offers holistic support to pregnant and postpartum people and people who are trying to conceive. The journeys through fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, infant feeding, loss, and parenthood are deeply transformative. They are equal parts beautiful and harrowing, and they are journeys historically traveled in community. In the tradition of birthing people who have come before us, The MaMA Space is here to be a supportive addition to this essential community.

Hi, I’m Dr. Zann

My name is Dr. Suzanne Mungalez, but my clients call me Dr. Zann. I am a licensed clinical psychologist in California (PSY 35061), a certified perinatal mental health clinician (PMH-C), a childbirth educator, a certified lactation education specialist (CLES), and a trained doula. I am Black, Congolese-American, and queer. I am a gender-expansive woman (she/they), and I am a mother who has given birth. All of this, and much, much more, inform who I am clinically and how I hold space for those I work with.

Put plainly, I am tender with people, tough on systems, and relentlessly committed to our collective liberation.

Education & Training

  • Psy.D. Clinical Psychology - The Wright Institute

  • Expecting Justice Lactation Educator Training and Certification

  • Cornerstone Doula Training and Certification

  • Postpartum Support International Perinatal Mental Health Training and Certification

Where I’ve Worked

  • UCSF EMBRACE Perinatal Care

  • Sutter CPMC Perinatal Mental Health

  • UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative

  • Wright Institute Psychodynamic Clinic

  • Children’s Hospital Oakland - SEED

My Approach

My approach varies slightly depending on the service I am offering. My coaching services are more goal-oriented, while my therapy services are more process-oriented. This means that psychotherapy with me takes on a psychoanalytic and attachment-based lens, focusing on the ways that your past (particularly experiences in early childhood) impact your current experiences (such as your transition into parenthood). Generally though, my approach is collaborative, relational, and rooted in liberation psychology. In all the work that I do, I hold firmly to my decolonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist values. I hold with tenderness all who have been systematically oppressed—such as women & femmes, sex workers, fat people, low income people, poly-partnered people, people with disabilities, queer and trans people, immigrants and undocumented people, indigenous people, Black people, other people of color, and of course, birthing people.